对外经济贸易大学2006年度语言学考研真题.doc

对外经济贸易大学2006年语言学考研真题 考试科目：专业英语 Section One Multiple Choice Questions（15points） （1）Virtually every sentence that a person utters or understands is a brand-new combination of words, appearing for the first time in the history of the universe. Therefore, a language cannot be a repertoire of responses; the brain must contain a recipe or program that can build an unlimited set of sentences out of a finite list of words. That program may be called a _______grammar. It should be not confused with ____or____ grammars that are just guides to the etiquette of written prose. a) Proscriptive-teaching-mental b) Mental-prescriptive-descriptive c) Teaching- descriptive-mental d) Mental-teaching- descriptive （2）The consonant [ s] in the word “smile” can be described as : a) voiceless oral alveolar fricative b) voiceless nasal bilabial liquid c) voiced oral alveolar plosive d) voiced oral bilabial fricative （3）Which of the following is not a minimal pair? a) [li:f] [fi:l] b) [sip] [zip] c) [sai] [sei] d) [leit] [feit] （4）Which of the following words is formed by the process of blending? a) WTO b) Motel c）Bookshelf d) red-faced （5）Determine which of the following description is the symptom of Wernicke’s aphasia? a) The patients are often referred to as agrammatic because of their particular problems with syntax, especially, with damage to the frontal cortex. b)These patients produce ordinary fluent speech with good intonation and pronunciation, but with many word substitutions. c)These patients produce ungrammatical utterances omitting function words like ‘a’ or ‘the’ or ‘was’ and parts of words like the past tense suffix –ed. d) They are characterized by word-finding difficulties and disturbed word order. （6）The statement that supports the argument that human brain is structured in a form of module is________- a) Mental grammar is unconscious. b) People do not have UG when they are