第四套

1. The description of a language as it changes through time is a ( ) study.

A. comparative B. diachronic

C. up-to-date D. descriptive

2. Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is ( ) phonetics.

A. auditory B. acoustic

C. articulatory D. none of the above three

3. What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also ( ).

A. phonemes B. morphemes

C. allophones D. phones

4. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generatvie linguists proposed and developed a theory of universal grammar known as the ( ) theory.

A. speech act B. TG

C. principles-and-parameters D. minimalist programme

5. One way to analyze lexical meaning is ( ).

A. predication analysis B. stylistic analysis

C. componential analysis D. proposition analysis

6. Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the ( ) because this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention.

A. locutionary act B. illocutionary act

C. perlocutionary act D. constative act

7. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar ( ).

A. Sir William Jones B. John Firth

C. M. A. K. Halliday D. F. D. Saussure

8. A bilingual speaker often uses two languages alternatively during a conversation with another bilingual speaker, a speech situation known as ( ).

A. discourse role-switching B. activity role-switching

C. social role-switching D. code-switching

9. A focal point of SLA research has been the nature and development of L2 learners’( ).

A. second language B. first language

C. foreign language D. interlanguage

10. It is estimated that the number of basic words known by English-speaking school children of age six is around ( ).

A. 7800 B. 6800 C. 5800 D. 4800