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1、[单选题]The distinction between langue and parole was made by _______ early last century.( )
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A.American linguist N. Chomsky
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B.Swiss linguist F. de Saussure
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C.American linguist Edward Sapir
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D.British linguist J. R. Firth
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2、[单选题]The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced _______, respectively.( )
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A.stops
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B.fricatives
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C.affricates
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D.plosives
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3、[单选题]In the word unreliable, the prefix “un-” is a(n) _______ morpheme.( )
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A.free
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B.bound
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C.root
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D.inflectional
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4、[单选题]Words in a sentence are organized into groups of lexical _______, commonly known as parts of speech.( )
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A.verbs
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B.nouns
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C.phrases
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D.categories
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5、[单选题]The words stationary and stationery are identical in sound, but different in spelling and meaning. They are _______.( )
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A.complete homonyms
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B.homographs
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C.hyponyms
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D.homophones
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6、[单选题]The illocutionary point of _______ is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance.( )
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A.directives
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B.expressives
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C.commissives
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D.representatives
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7、[单选题]Grimm pointed out that certain phonological changes must have occurred early in the history of the Germanic languages, which did not take place in _______, Greek, or Latin.( )
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A.English
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B.Sanskrit
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C.German
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D.Danish
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8、[单选题]Language planning refers to any attempt by a government, etc. to choose a particular speech variety and spread the use of it, including its pronunciation and spelling systems, across _______ boundaries.( )
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A.social
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B.regional
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C.cultural
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D.political
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9、[单选题]The case of Phineas Gage showed us that _______.( )
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A.human language ability is not located in the brain because Phineas’ brain was so damaged and he could still speak
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B.human language ability is located in the right hemisphere of the brain
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C.if human language ability is located in the brain, it is not situated right at the back
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D.if human language ability is located in the brain, it is not situated right at the front
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10、[单选题]The Chinese sound/d/in English interlanguage pronunciation of “dat” for “that” belongs to _______ error.( )
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A.fossilization
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B.transfer
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C.interference
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D.overgeneralization
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11、[判断题]The arbitrary nature of language makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.
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12、[判断题]When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, then the two words are called minimal pairs. Sip and zip are a minimal pair, as are fine and vine, and veal and leaf.
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13、[判断题]The meaning of a compound is the combination of the meanings of the words in the compoun.
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14、[判断题]The structure that occurs after movement takes place is what we term as surface structure.
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15、[判断题]The predication analysis of a sentence only applies to statements and interrogative forms.
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16、[判断题]Speech act theory was proposed by the British philosopher John Austin in the late 1950s.
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17、[判断题]Derivation covers various processes of word formation by the addition of affixes, such as the creation of adjectives from nouns (professional < profession), nouns from verbs (computer < compute), adjectives from verbs (conceivable < conceive), and verbs from nouns (eulogize < eulogy).
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18、[判断题]In Black English, when the verb is negated, the indefinite pronouns something, somebody, and some become the negative indefinites nothing, nobody, and none, such as He don’t know nothing. Such double negation constructions indicate that speakers of Black English are deficient because they use language “illogically.”
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