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全国
2007
年
10
月高等教育自学考试
现代语言学试题
课程代码：
00830
I. Directions: Read each of the
following statements carefully. Decide which one
of the four choices
best
completes the statement and put the
letter A, B, C, or D in the brackets.
(2%
×
10=20%)
1.
Design features refer to the defining properties
of human language that distinguish it from any
_______________system of communication.
A.
artificial B. non
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linguistic
D. abstract 2. If you put a
finger in each ear and say
“
z
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z
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z<
/p>
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z
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z
”
, you can feel the vibrations
of the
_______________.
B. windpipe
D.
vocal cords 3. In the word suitable,
“<
/p>
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able
”
is a _______________morpheme.
B. inflectional A.
derivational D. stem 4. _______________is a
subfield of linguistics that studies the
sentence structure of language,
i.e. how words are arranged
in a sentence and in what order.
A. Morphology B. Syntax
D. Semantics C. Phonology
5. Whether a sentence is semantically
meaningful is governed by rules called
_______________. B.
grammatical rules
A. selectional restrictions C. phrase structure
rules
6. If a sentence is
regarded as what people actually utter in the
course of communication, it becomes a(n)
_______________ C. utterance
discovery of
Indo
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European began with the
work of ____________, who delivered an important
paper in 1786 in which he
suggested that Sanskrit bore a stronger
affinity to Greek and Latin.
A. the British scholar Sir William
Jones C. the Danish scholar Rasmus Rask
important characteristic
of a speech community is that the members of the
group must,
in some
reasonable way, interact _______________with other
members of the community.
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