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英语应用语言学测试题二

试卷总分：100       测试时间：90分钟

剩余时间：89分48秒

单项选择题判断题  

一、单项选择题（共 15 道试题，共60 分。）

1. Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circlesoverlapping  in some parts. When languageand thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regardthought as "subvocal speech," and speech as "_______".

A. vocal thought

B. subvocal thought

C. covert thought   

D.   

overt thought

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2. The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to theapproach which studies language change over various periods of time and atvarious historical stages.

A. synchronic

B. diachronic

C. comparative   

D. historical comparative

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3. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the wayspeakers interpret sentences is called ___.

A. semantics

B. pragmatics

C. sociolinguistics

D. psycholinguistics

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4. Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.

A. phoneme

B. word

C. phrase

D. sentence

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5. The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A roseby any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.

A. the conventional nature of language

B. the creative nature of language

C. the universality of language

D. the big difference between humanlanguage and animal communication

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6. The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex,social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address formsfrequently used includes first name, last name, title+last name, _______,andkin term.

A. title+first name

B. title+title

C. title alone  

D. first name+last name+title

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7. Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, inaddition to the motor area which is responsible for physical articulation ofutterances, three areas of the left brain are vital to language, namely, ___ .

A. Broca's area, Wernicke's area and theangular gyrus角回

B. Broca's area, Wernicke's area andcerebral cortex

C. Broca's area, Wernicke's area andneurons

D. Broca's area, Wernicke's area and Exner'sarea

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8. Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissibleaccording to the sequential rules in English.

A. kibl

B. bkil

C. ilkb

D. ilbk

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9. According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and subconciousdevelopment of ability in the first language by using it naturally in dailycommunicative situations.

A. learning

B. competence

C. performance

D.   

acquisition

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10. The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula"S→NP VP".

A. hierarchical

B. linear

C. tree diagram

D. vertical

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11. It is the _______ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignorand a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each other.

A. Case Condition  

B. parameter

C. Adjacent Condition

D. Adjacent Parameter

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12. Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of childlanguage acquisition?_______.

A. Language acquisition is a process ofhabit formation

B. Language acquisition is thespecies-specific property of human beings

C. Children are born with an innate abilityto acquire language

D. Humans are equipped with the neuralprerequisites for language and language use

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13. ___ refers to a marginal language of few lexical items andstraightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.

A. Lingua franca通用语

B. Creole

C. Pidgin

D.   

Standard language标准语言

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14. Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes,which are ___ or generalization泛化.

A. elaboration

B. simplification精简

C. external borrowing

D. internal borrowing

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15. According to Searle,those illocutionary acts whose point is to committhe speaker to some future course of action are called _______.

A. commisives

B. directives

C. expressives

D. declaratives

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二、判断题（共 10 道试题，共 40分。）

1. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences andsentences with infinite length, due to their recursive properites.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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2. Speakers of different languages are capable of distinguishing andrecognizing experiences of the same objective world according to theirrespective different linguistic coding system.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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3. An important difference between traditional grammarians and modernlinguists in their study of language is that the former tended toover-emphasize the written form of language and encourage people to imitate the"best authors" for language usage.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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4.   

We can always tell by the words a compoundcontains what it means because the meaning of a compound is always the sum ofthe meanings of its parts.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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5. The sentences "He crazy" and "He be sick all thetime" are both acceptable in Black English vernacular because copuladeletion and habitual be are two famous features of Black English.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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6. The conceptualist view of meaning holds that there is no direct linkbetween a symbol and reference, i.e. between language and thought.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

7. In first language acquisition children's grammar models exactly afterthe grammar of adult language.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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8. Instruction and correction are key factors in child languagedevelopment.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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9. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria canbe applied.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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10. Of the views concerning the study of semantics, the contextual view,which places the study of meaning in the context in which language is used, isoften considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense.

A. 错误

B. 正确

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