CHAPTER1I.Decidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsistrueorfalse:T1.Linguisticsisgenerallydefinedasthescientificstudyoflanguage.F2.Ascientificstudyoflanguageisbasedonwhatthelinguistthinks.T3.GenerallinguisticsisgenerallythestudyoflanguageasawholeT4.Phoneticsisdifferentfromphonologyinthatthelatterstudiesthecombinationsofthesoundstoconveymeaningincommunication.T5.Thestudyofthewaysinwhichmorphemescanbecombinedtoformwordsiscalledmorphology.T6.AppliedlinguisticsistheapplicationoflinguisticprinciplesandtheoriestolanguageteachingandlearningT7Competenceandperformancereferrespectivelytoalanguageuser'sunderlyingknowledgeaboutthesystemofrulesandtheactualuseoflanguageinconcreteF8Languageisameansofverbalcommunication.Therefore,thecommunicationwayusedbythedeaf-muteisnotlanguageT9.BydiachronicstudywemeantostudythechangesanddevelopmentoflanguageF10.Languagechangeisuniversal,ongoingandarbitraryF11.Thereisuniversalagreementabouttheoriginoflanguage.F12.Petdogscanspeakhumanlanguages.F13.Allhumaninfantscanspeaksomelanguage.F14.Bycreativitywemeanthecreativeuseoflanguageasoftenpracticedbypoets.F15.Withdifferentculturestherewillbedifferentlanguages.T16.Notallusesoflanguagearemeanttoconveynewinformation.III.Therearefourchoicesfollowingeachstatement.Markthechoicethatcanbestcompletethestatement.1.Ifalinguisticstudydescribesandanalyzesthelanguagepeopleactuallyuse,itissaidtobeA.prescriptiveB.analyticC.descriptiveD.linguistic2.Whichofthefollowingisnotadesignfeatureofhumanlanguage?A.ArbitrarinessB.DisplacementC.DualityD.Meaningfulness3.Modernlinguisticsregardsthewrittenlanguageas.A.primaryB.correctC.secondaryD.stable4.Thefunctionofthesentence“waterboilat100degreescentigrade”AinterrogativeBdirectiveCinformativeDperformative5.Ahistoricalstudyoflanguageisastudyoflanguage.A.synchronicB.diachronicC.prescriptiveD.comparative6.Languageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsforhuman.AcontactBcommunicationCrelationDcommunity7.LanguagesisAinstinctiveBnon-instinctiveCstaticDgeneticallytransmitted8.AlinguistregardsthechangeinlanguageandlanguageuseasAunnaturalBsomethingtobefearedCnaturalDabnormal9.WhichofthefollowingwordsisentirelyarbitraryAtreeBcrashCtypewriterDbang10.Inmodernlinguistics,speechisregardedasmorebasicthanwriting,because.A.inlinguisticevolution,speechispriortowritingB.speechplaysagreaterrolethanwritingintermsoftheamountofinformationconveyed.C.speechisalwaysthewayinwhicheverynativespeakeracquireshismothertongueD.AlloftheaboveCHAPTER2I.DecidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse:T1.VoicingisaphonologicalfeaturethatdistinguishesmeaninginbothChineseandEnglish.F2.Iftwophoneticallysimilarsoundsoccurinthesameenvironmentsandtheydistinguishmeaning,theyaresaidtobeincomplementarydistribution.F3.Aphoneisaphoneticunitthatdistinguishesmeaning.F4.EnglishisatonelanguagewhileChineseisnot.T5.Inlinguisticevolution,speechispriortowriting.T6.Ineverydaycommunication,speechplaysagreaterrolethanwritingintermsoftheamountofinformationconveyed.F7.Articulatoryphoneticstriestodescribethephysicalpropertiesofthestreamofsoundswhichaspeakerissueswiththehelpofamachinecalledspectrograph.F8.Thearticulatoryapparatusofahumanbeingarecontainedinthreeimportantareas:thethroat,themouthandthechest.T9.Vibrationofthevocalcordsresultsinaqualityofspeechsoundscalledvoicing.F10.Englishconsonantscanbeclassifiedintermsofplaceofarticulationandth...
