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1、 1 英语专业 2007-2008 学年第二学期普通语言学考试试卷 英语专业 2007-2008 学年第二学期普通语言学考试试卷 1. Choose ALL the correct ones from A, B, C, or D. There may be as many as three correct choices. (30 points, 2 points each) 1) “It is wrong to split an infinitive.” This is an example of _ rules. A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. tran
2、sformational D. functional 2) The distinction between competence and performance was put forward by _. A. Leonard Bloomfield B. Ferdinand de Saussure C. Noam Chomsky D. M. A. K. Halliday 3) Which of the following is the correct description of t? A. Voiceless alveolar stop. B. Voiceless alveolar fric
3、ative. C. Voiced alveolar stop. D. Voiced alveolar fricative. 4) Which of the following is a voiced labiodental fricative? A. s B. z C. v D. f 5) Which of the following are “derivational suffixes”? A. -s B. -ion C. -ing D. -ify 6) Which of the following are “content words”? A. Nouns. B. Verbs. C. De
4、terminers. D. Prepositions. 7) Which of the following is the correct bracketing of the phrase structure in the sentence “The boy is crying”? A. The boy is crying B. The boy is crying C. The boy is crying D. The boy is crying 8) Which of the following sentences contain a participial phrase? A. The be
5、st thing would be to leave early. B. Having finished their work, they came to our aid. C. Its great for a man to be free. D. To my surprise, she started looking for jobs. 9) Which of the following terms are related to Cognitive Linguistics? A. Word recognition. B. Language acquisition. C. Construal
6、operations. D. Categorization. 2 10) Which of the following are NOT true of the “women register”? A. Women use more “fancy” color terms. B. Women use stronger swearing words. C. Women use more intensifiers. D. Women use more direct expressions. 11) Which of the following forms of writing are more li
7、kely to use foregrounding? A. Poetry. B. Diary. C. Research Papers. D. Novels. 12) Which of the following include a metaphor? A. His eyes came out of his head like a prawns. B. The hallway was zebra-striped with darkness and moonlight. C. The thought was a fire in him. D. The world is a looking-glas
8、s, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. 13) Which of the following are writings of stream of consciousness? A. Pride and Prejudice B. To the Lighthouse. C. As I Lay Dying. D. Jane Eyre. 14) Which of the following book titles contain “alliteration”? A. Vowels and Consonants. B.
9、 Gone with the Wind. C. Sex and the City. D. The Wonder of Words. 15) “_” is often understood as a language system between the target language and the learners native language. A. Input Hypothesis B. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis C. Interlanguage D. Contrastive Analysis 2. Decide whether the following stat
10、ements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points, 1 point each) 1) Duality refers to the property of having two levels of structures， such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization. 2) Articulatory Ph
11、onetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds. 3) The adjective is an open class of words. 4) The “parts of speech” in traditional grammar is often referred to as “word class” today. 3 5) “Hot” and “cold” are converse antonyms. 6) The holophrastic stage is the mature phase of language acq
12、uisition. 7) Men use stronger curse words than women. 8) The Relevance Theory was suggested by H. P. Grice. 9) Stream of consciousness was used in the writings of William Faulkner. 10) Machine translation can be used for restricted technical purposes, such as the weather report. 3. Briefly explain t
13、he following terms. (20 points, 5 points each) 1) lateral 2) back-formation 3) cognition 4) foregrounding 4. Answer TWO of the following questions. (40 points, 20 points each) 1) Use examples to illustrate the concept of “recursiveness”. 2) Describe the three categories of conceptual metaphors. 3) I
14、n recent years, numerous new words have entered the daily life of Chinese people, e.g. 上网，海选. Give a list of (about 10) such words, discuss the context of their usage, and provide a feasible explanation of their booming. 4 2007-08 学年第二学期普通语言学试卷参考答案和评分标准 I. 多选题。 （多选题。 （30 分，每题分，每题 2 分）分） 评分须知： 1) 如果答
15、案为一个选项，则答对给 2 分，答错不给分； 2) 如果答案为两个选项，则答对一个给 1 分，答对两个给 2 分； 3) 如果答案为 3 个选项，则答对 2 个给 1 分，答对三个给 2 分，只答对一个或 没有答对不给分。 4) 选错一个选项扣 1 分，选错两个扣 2 分，四个答案都选不给分。 答案： 1. A 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. BD 6. AB 7. B 8. BD 9. CD 10. BD 11. AD 12. BCD 13. BC 14. BCD 15. C II. 辨析题。 （辨析题。 （10 分，每题分，每题 1 分）分） 评分须知：判断正确每题给 1 分，判断错误
16、不给分。 答案： 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T III. 解词。 （解词。 （20 分，每题分，每题 5 分）分） 评分须知：每题 5 分，根据考生回答完整情况酌情给分。 参考答案： 1) lateral Lateral is a manner of articulation when the obstruction of the airstream is at a point along the center of the oral tract, with incomplete closure between one or both sides of the tongue and the roof of the mouth. As the lateral passage forms a strict
