英语语言学试题精粹 (10 套) 第一部分选择题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、As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___. A 、 prescriptive B、 sociolinguistic C、 descriptive D、 psycholinguistic 2、Of all the speech organs, the ___ is/are the most flexible. A 、 mouth B、 lips C、 tongue D、 vocal cords 3、The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) ___. A 、 bound morpheme B、 bound form C、 inflectional morpheme D、 free morpheme 4、A ___ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause. A 、 coordinator B、 particle C、 preposition D、 subordinator 5、"Can I borrow your bike?" ___ "You have a bike." A 、 is synonymous with B、 is inconsistent with C、 entails D、 presupposes 6、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___. A 、 semantics B、 pragmatics C、 sociolinguistics D、 psycholinguistics 7、Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are ___ or generalization. A 、 elaboration B、 simplification C、 external borrowing D、 internal borrowing 8、___ refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication. A 、 Lingua franca B、 Creole C、 Pidgin D、 Standard language 9、Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, in addition to the motor area which is responsible for physica...
