第九套

1. Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, but they differ in that ____________.

A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky took a psychological point of view

B. Saussure took a psychological view of language while Chomsky took a sociological point of view

C. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language while Chomsky took a semantic point of view

D. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky took a pragmatic point of view

2. Language is a system of ____________ vocal symbols used for human communication.

A. unnatural B. artificial C. superficial D. arbitrary

3. We are born with the ability to acquire language, _______________.

A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitted

B. therefore, we needn’t learn the details of our mother tongue

C. but the details of language have to be learnt.

D. and the details are acquired by instinct

4. A(n)________ is a phonological unit of distinctive value. It is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

A. phone B. allophone C. phoneme D. sound

5. The morpheme –ed in the word “worked” is a(n) __________ morpheme.

A. derivational B. inflectional C. free D. word-forming

6. WH-movement is __________ in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to interrogative.

A. obligatory B. optional C. selectional D. arbitrary

7. Naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, was proposed by _____________.

A. Grice B. Plato C. Saussure D. Ogden and Richards

8. “John married a blond heiress.”__________ “John married a blond.”

A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes

9. In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called ____________, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.

A. utterance B. reference C. predication D. morpheme

10. In Austin’s speech act theory, ___________ is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.

A. a perlocutionary act B. a locutionary act C. a constative act D. an illocutionary act

1-5. A D C C B 6-10. A B C C D