06英本语言学试卷A及答案.doc

Part I Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully and put the letter A, B,C or D in the brackets. (2%×15=30%) 1. If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be ________. A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. synchronic D. diachronic 2. The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” well illustrates ___________. A. the arbitrary nature of language B. the creative nature of language C. the universality of language D. the big difference between human language and animal communication 3. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in ____. A. the place of articulation B. the obstruction of air stream C. the position of the tongue D. the shape of the lips 4. The sound /f/ is _________________. A. voiced palatal affricate B. voiced alveolar stop C. voiceless velar fricative D. voiceless labiodental fricative 5. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called _________. A. polysemy B.hyponymy C. antonymy D. homonymy 6. The word “ motel” is formed through . A. backformation B. blending C. clipping D. derivation 7. The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed the ___________. A. phrase structure B. surface structure C. syntactic structure D. deep structure 8. Which word can be analyzed as +HUMAN, +ANIMATE, +ADULT, -MALE ____ A. boy B. girl C. man D. woman 9. The pair of words vacant and occupied are_______ antonymy.?? A. gradable B. converse C. relational D. complementary 12. 4 10. ?-er” in the word “ colder” is _______. A. a deri A. a derivative affix B. a stem C. an inflectional affix D. a root 11. The relationship between fruit and apple is? ????. A. polysemy B.hypony