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I.
Choose the
best answer
.
1.
Language is
a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human
__________
A.
contact
B.
communication
C. relation
D. community
2. Study the following dialogue. What
function does it play according to
the
functions of language?
—
A
nice day, isn’t it?
—
Right! I really enjoy the
sunlight.
A.
Emotive
B.
Phatic
C.
Performative
D.
Interpersonal
3. __________
refers
to
the
actual
realization
of
the
ideal
language
user’s
knowledge of the rules of his language in
utterances.
A. Performance
B. Competence
C. Langue
D. Parole
4. __________
deals
with
language
application
to
other
fields,
particularly education.
A. Linguistic theory
B. Practical
linguistics
C. Applied linguistics
D. Comparative
linguistics
5.
__________
answers
such
questions
as
how
we
as
infants
acquire our first
language.
A. Psycholinguistics
pological linguistics
C.
Sociolinguistics
D.
Applied linguistics
6.
Pitch
variation
is
known
as
__________
when
its
patterns
are
imposed on sentences.
A.
intonation
B. tone
C. pronunciation
D. voice
7.
Conventionally a __________ is put in slashes (/
/).
A.
allophone
B. phone
C. phoneme
D.
morpheme
8.
An
aspirated
p,
an
unaspirated
p
and
an
unreleased
p
are
__________
of the p phoneme.
A.
analogues
B.
tagmemes
C.
morphemes
D.
allophones
9.
The
opening between the vocal cords is sometimes
referred to as
__________.
A.
glottis
B.
vocal
cavity
C.
pharynx
D.
uvula
10.
The diphthongs that are
made with a movement of the tongue
towards the center are known as
__________ diphthongs.
A. wide
B. closing
C. narrow
D. centering
11.
A
phoneme is a group of similar sounds called
__________.
A.
minimal
pairs
B.
allomorphs
C.
phones
D.
allophones
12.
Which
branch
of
phonetics
concerns
the
production of speech
sounds?
A. Acoustic phonetics
B.
Articulatory phonetics
C. Auditory phonetics
D. None of
the above
13.
Which
one
is
different
from
the
others
according
to
places
of
articulation?
A. [n]
B. [m]
C. [ b ]
D. [p]
14.
Which
vowel
is
different
from
the
others
according
to
the
characteristics of vowels?
A. [i:]
B. [ u ]
C. [e]
D. [ i ]
15.
What
kind
of
sounds
can
we
make
when
the
vocal
cords
are
vibrating?
A.
V
oiceless
B.
V
oiced
C.
Glottal
stop
D.
Consonant
16.
Nouns,
verbs and adjectives can be classified as
__________.
A. lexical words
B. grammatical words
C. function words
D. form words
17.
Morphemes
that
represent
tense,
number,
gender
and
case
are
called __________
morpheme.
A. inflectional
B. free
C. bound
D. derivational
18.
There are __________
morphemes in the word
denationalization.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
19.
In English
–
ise and
–
tion are called __________.
A.
prefixes
B.
suffixes
C. infixes
D. stems
20.
The
three subtypes of affixes are: prefix, suffix and
__________.
A.
derivational
affix
B.
inflectional
affix
C.
infix
D.
back-formation
21.
__________ is a way in
which new words may be formed from
already existing words by subtracting
an affix which is thought to be part
of
the old word.
A.
affixation
B.
back-
formation
C.
insertion
D.
addition
22.
The word TB is formed in the way of
__________.
A.
acronymy
B.
clipping
C.
initialism
D.
blending
23.
The words like comsat and sitcom are
formed by __________.
A.
blending
B.
clipping
C.
back-formation
D.
acronymy
24.
The stem of disagreements is
__________.
A. agreement
B. agree
C. disagree
D. disagreement
25.
All of them are
meaningful except for __________.
A. lexeme
B. phoneme
C. morpheme
D. allomorph
26.
The
sentence structure is ________.
A. only linear
B. only hierarchical
C. complex
D. both
linear and hierarchical
27.
The syntactic rules of any
language are ____ in number.
A. large
B. small
C. finite
D.
infinite
28.
The ________ rules are the rules that
group words and phrases to
form
grammatical sentences.
A. lexical
B. morphological
C. linguistic
D. combinational
29.
A
sentence
is
considered
____
when
it
does
not conform
to
the
grammatical knowledge in
the mind of native speakers.
A.
right
B.
wrong
C.
grammatical
D.
ungrammatical
30.
A
__________ in the embedded clause refers to the
introductory
word that
introduces the embedded clause.
A.
coordinator
B.
particle
C.
preposition
D.
subordinator
31.
Phrase structure rules
have ____ properties.
A. recursive
B. grammatical
C. social
D. functional
32.
Phrase
structure
rules
allow
us
to
better
understand
_____________.
A. how words and phrases
form sentences.
B. what constitutes the
grammaticality of strings of words
C. how
people produce and recognize possible sentences
D. all of the above.
33.
The head of the phrase ―the city Rome‖
is __________.
A. the city
B. Rome
C. city
D. the city
Rome
34.
The
phrase ―on the shelf‖ belongs to __________
construction.
A.
endocentric
B.
exocentric
C.
subordinate
D.
coordinate
35.
The
sentence ―They were wanted to remain quiet and not
to expose
themselves.‖ is a __________
sentence.
A. simple
B. coordinate
C. compound
D. complex
36.
The naming
theory is advanced by ________.
A. Plato
B. Bloomfield
C. Geoffrey Leech
D. Firth
37.
―Can I
borrow your bike?‖_______ ―Y
ou have a
bike.‖
A. is
synonymous with
B. is
inconsistent with
C. entails
D.
presupposes
38.
___________
is
a
way
in
which
the
meaning
of
a
word
can
be
dissected
into meaning components, called semantic features.
A.
Predication analysis
B.
Componential analysis
C. Phonemic analysis
D.
Grammatical analysis
39.
―Alive‖ and ―dead‖ are
______________.
A.
gradable antonyms
B.
relational antonyms
C. complementary
antonyms
D. None of
the above
40.
_________
deals
with
the
relationship
between
the
linguistic
element and the non-linguistic world of
experience.
A. Reference
B. Concept
C. Semantics
D. Sense
41.
___________
refers
to
the
phenomenon
that
words
having
different meanings have the same form.
A. Polysemy
B. Synonymy
C. Homonymy
D. Hyponymy
42.
Words that
are close in meaning are called ______________.
A. homonyms
B. polysemies
C. hyponyms
D. synonyms
43.
What
essentially
distinguishes
semantics
and
pragmatics
is
whether in the study of meaning
_________ is considered.
A.
reference
B.
speech
act
C.
practical
usage
D.
context
44.
A sentence is a _________ concept, and
the meaning of a sentence
is often
studied in isolation.
A.
pragmatic
B.
grammatical
C.
mental
D.
conceptual
45.
If we think of a sentence as what
people actually utter in the course
of
communication, it becomes a (n) _________.
A. constative
B. directive
C. utterance
D. expressive
46.
Speech act
theory did not come into being until __________.
A. in the late 50’s of the 20the
century
B. in the
early 1950’s
C.
in
the
late
1960’s
D.
in
the
early
21st
century
47.
__________
is
the
act
performed
by
or
resulting
from
saying
something;
it is the consequence of, or the change
brought about by the
utterance.
A. A
locutionary act
B. An
illocutionary act
C. A
perlocutionary act
D. A
performative act
48.
_
____
is
a
branch
of
grammar
which
studies
the
internal
structur
e
of
words
and
the
rules
by
which
words
are
formed.
49.
A.
Syntax B.
Grammar
C.
Morphology D.
Mor
pheme
50.
_____
are
often
thought
to
be
the
smallest
meaningful
units
of
language
by
the
linguists.
A.
Words
B.
Morphemes
C.
Phonemes
D.
Sentences
51.
―
-
s‖
in
the
word
―books‖
is
_______.
52.
A.
a
derivative
affix B.
a
stem
C.
an
inflectional
affi
x
D.
a
root
53. Bound morphemes are
classified into two types: ___
affix
___
_ and
__
bound
root_
_______.
54.
The
theory
of
__________
condition
explains
the
fact
that
noun
phrases
appear only in subject and object positions.
55. ___________ refers to the
phenomenon that words having different
meanings have the same form.
A. Polysemy
B. Synonymy
C. Homonymy
D. Hyponymy
56.
The grammaticality of
a sentence is governed by _______.
A. grammatical rules
B.
selectional restrictions
C. semantic rules
D. semantic
features
57.
What
essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics
is whether
in the study of meaning
_________ is considered.
A.
reference
B.
speech
act
C.
practical
usage
D.
context
58. A sentence is a
_________ concept, and the meaning of a sentence
is
often studied in isolation.
A.
pragmatic
B.
grammatical
C.
mental
D.
conceptual
59.
If we think of a
sentence as what people actually utter in the
course
of communication, it
becomes a (n)
_________.
A.
constative
B. directive
C. utterance
D. expressive
60.
Which of
the following is true?
A. Utterances usually do not take the
form of sentences.
B. Some utterances cannot
be restored to complete sentences.
C. No utterances can take
the form of sentences.
D. All utterances can be restored to
complete sentences.
65.
Speech act theory did not
come into being until __________.
A.
in the late 50’s of the 20the century
B. in the early 1950’s
C.
in
the
late
1960’s
D.
in
the
early
21st
century
66.
__________
is
the
act
performed
by
or
resulting
from
saying
something;
it is the consequence of, or the change
brought about by the
utterance.
A. A
locutionary act
B. An
illocutionary act
C. A
perlocutionary act
D. A performative act
67.
According
to Searle, the
illocutionary point of
the representative
is
______.
A. to get the hearer to do something
B. to commit the speaker to something’s
being the case
C. to commit the speaker to some
future course of action
D. to express the feelings or attitude
towards an existing state of affairs
68.
All the acts that
belong to the same category share the same
purpose,
but they differ __________.
A. in their
illocutionary acts
B. in their intentions
expressed
C. in their strength or force
D. in their effect brought about
69.
__________ is advanced by Paul Grice
A.
Cooperative Principle
B. Politeness Principle
C.
The
General
Principle
of
Universal
Grammar
D.
Adjacency
Principle
70.
When any
of the maxims under the cooperative principle is
flouted,
_______ might arise.
A. impoliteness
B.
contradictions
C. mutual understanding
D.
conversational implicatures
71. Th
e person who is often
described as ―father of modern linguistics‖ is
__________..
A. Firth
B. Saussure
C. Halliday
D. Chomsky
72. The most
important contribution of the Prague School to
linguistics is
that it sees language in
terms of __________.
A. function
B. meaning
C. signs
D. system
73. The
principal
representative
of
American
descriptive
linguistics
is
__________.
A. Boas
B. Sapir
C. Bloomfield
D. Harris
74. Generally
speaking,
the
__________
specifies
whether
a
certain
tagmeme
is
in
the
position
of
the
Nucleus
or
of
the
Margin
in
the
structure.
A. Slot
B. Class
C. Role
D. Cohesion
75.
__________
Grammar
is
the
most
widespread
and
the
best
understood method of discussing Indo-
European languages.
A.
Traditional
B.
Structural
C.
Functional
D.
Generative
76.
__________ Grammar
started from the American linguist Sydney M.
Lamb in the late 1950s and the early
1960s.
A.
Stratificational
B.
Case
C.
Relational
D.
Montague