1．Syntax is the study of_______
　　A．language functions．
　　B．sentence structures．
　　C．textual organization．
　　D．word formation．
　　2．Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
　　A．Arbitrariness．
　　B．Productivity．
　　C．Cultural transmission．
　　D．Finiteness．
　　3．The speech act theory was first put forward by_______
　　A．John Searle．
　　B．John Austin．
　　C．Noam Chomsky．
　　D．M．A．K．Halliday．
　　4．What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of_______
　　A．reference
　　B．meaning
　　C．antonymy
　　D．context
　　5．The words"kid,child,offspring" are examples of_______
　　A．dialectal synonyms
　　B．stylistic synonyms
　　C．emotive synonyms
　　D．collocational synonyms
　　6．The distinction between parole and langue was made by_______
　　A．Halliay B．Chomsky C．Bloomfield D．Saussure
　　7．_______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation．
　　A．Phonology
　　B．Morphology
　　C．Semantics
　　D．Sociolinguistics
　　8．The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT_______
　　A．lexical
　　B．syntactic
　　C．phonological
　　D．psycholinguistic
　　9．The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal．” This is an example of_______
　　A．widening of meaning
　　B．narrowing of meaning
　　C．meaning shift
　　D．loss of meaning
　　10．Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?
　　A．Arbitrariness．
　　B．Displacement．
　　C．Duality．
　　D．Diachronicity．
　　11．What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry．”_______?
　　A．A simple sentence．
　　B．A coordinate sentence．
　　C．A complex sentence．
　　D．None of the above．
　　12．The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called_______
　　A．hyponymy．
　　B．synonymy．
　　C．polysemy．
　　D．homonymy．
　　13．The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is_______
　　A．corpus linguistics
　　B．sociolinguistics
　　C．theoretical linguistics
　　D．psycholinguistics
　　14．A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called_______
　　A．dialect
　　B．idiolect C．pidgin
　　D．register
　　15．When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing_______．
　　A．an illocutionary act
　　B．a perlocutionary act
　　C．a locutionary act
　　D．none of the above
　　答案
　　BDB DBD BDA DBC DCA

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