电大国开开放大学养生与保健（辽宁）形考作业三参考答案

英语应用语言学测试题三

试卷总分：100       测试时间：90分钟

剩余时间：89分44秒

单项选择题判断题  

一、单项选择题（共 15 道试题，共60 分。）

1. In a speech community people have something in common __________alanguage or a particular variety of language and rules for using it.

A. socially

B.  linguistically

C. culturally

D. pragmatically

     满分：4  分

2.   

The function of the sentence “Water boilsat 100 degrees Centigrade.” is __________

A. interrogative

B. directive

C. informative

D. performative

     满分：4  分

3.   

Language is a system of arbitrary vocalsymbols used for human     __________

A. contact

B. communication  

C. relation

D. community

     满分：4  分

4. The consonant [f] in English can be correctly described as having thefollowing phonetic features: __________.

A. voiceless, bilabial, stop

B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative

C. voiced, bilabial, stop

D. voiced, labiodental, fricative

     满分：4  分

5.   

InChinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people presentare likely to say“碎碎（岁岁）平安”as a means of controllingthe forces which they believes feel might affect their lives. Which functionsdoes it perform?

A. Interpersonal

B. Emotive

C. Performative

D. Recreational

     满分：4  分

6.  In the phrase structure rule "S→NP VP", the arrow can be readas __________.

A. is equal to

B.

consists of

C. has

D. generates

     满分：4  分

7. Which of the major mental functions listed below is not under thecontrol of the left hemisphere in most people? __________.

A. language and speech

B. visual and spatial skills

C. reading and writing

D. analytic reasoning

     满分：4  分

8.  Linguistics is the scientific study of __________.

A. a particular language

B. the English language

C. human languages in general

D. the system of a particular language

     满分：4  分

9. Y's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maximof __________.

   X: Who was that you were with last night?

   Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality

B. quantity

C. relation

D. manner

     满分：4  分

10. "I bought some roses" __________ "I bought someflowers".

A. entails

B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with

     满分：4  分

11. Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of thelanguage. This means that phonemes, __________, words and grammatical rules maybe borrowed, added, lost or altered.

A. phrases

B. sentences

C. morphemes

D. utterances

     满分：4  分

12. In general, the __________ stage begins roughly in the second half ofthe child's second year.

A. babbling

B. one-word

C. two-word

D. multiword

     满分：4  分

13. There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix"ed" in the word "learned" is known as a(n) __________.

A. derivational morpheme

B. free morpheme

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free form

     满分：4  分

14.   

Which of the following property of languageenables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, dueto this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk aboutanything in any situation?

A. Transferability

B. Duality

C. Displacement  

D. Arbitrariness

     满分：4  分

15.   

Which of the following words is entirelyarbitrary?

A. tree

B. typewriter

C. crash

D. bang

     满分：4  分

二、判断题（共 10 道试题，共 40分。）

1. In the history of any language the writing system always came into beingbefore the spoken form.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

2. In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronouncea long vowel such as/i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

3. The division of English  into OldEnglish, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and notarbitrary.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

4.  Acompound is the combination of only two words.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

5. If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikelyto learn a language successfully later on.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

6. An important difference between presupposition and entailment is thatpresupposition, unlike entailment, is not vulnerable to negation. That is tosay, if a sentence is negated, the original presupposition is still true.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

7.   

“The student” in the sentence “The studentliked the linguistic lecture.”,and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence“The linguistic lecture liked the student.”belong to the same syntacticcategory.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

8. Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references indifferent situations while linguistic forms with the same reference always havethe same sense.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

9. Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, justas it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudesabout social taboos or racism.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分

10. When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their languageand the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any soundsin their native language once their parents teach them.

A. 错误

B. 正确

     满分：4  分