微信小程序一、单项选择题（共 15 道试题，共 60 分。）
1. Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as “subvocal speech,” and speech as “_______”.
A. vocal thought
B. subvocal thought
C. covert thought
D.
overt thought
参考答案：D
2. The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.
A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. comparative
D. historical comparative
参考答案：B
3. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A. semantics
B. pragmatics
C. sociolinguistics
D. psycholinguistics
参考答案：B
4. Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.
A. phoneme
B. word
C. phrase
D. sentence
参考答案：D
5. The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.
A. the conventional nature of language
B. the creative nature of language
C. the universality of language
D. the big difference between human language and animal communication
参考答案：A
6. The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name, last name, title+last name, _______,and kin term.
A. title+first name
B. title+title
C. title alone
D. first name+last name+title
参考答案：C
7. Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, in addition to the motor area which is responsible for physical articulation of utterances, three areas of the left brain are vital to language, namely, ___ .
A. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and the angular gyrus角回
B. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and cerebral cortex
C. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and neurons
D. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and Exner’s area
参考答案：A
8. Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.
A. kibl
B. bkil
C. ilkb
D. ilbk
参考答案：A
9. According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and subconcious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.
A. learning
B. competence
C. performance
D.
acquisition
参考答案：D
10. The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula “S→NP VP”.
A. hierarchical
B. linear
C. tree diagram
D. vertical
参考答案：B
11. It is the _______ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each other.
A. Case Condition
B. parameter
C. Adjacent Condition
D. Adjacent Parameter
参考答案：C
12. Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisition?_______.
A. Language acquisition is a process of habit formation
B. Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings
C. Children are born with an innate ability to acquire language
D. Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use
参考答案：A
13. ___ refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.
A. Lingua franca通用语
B. Creole
C. Pidgin
D.
Standard language标准语言
参考答案：C
14. Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are ___ or generalization泛化.
A. elaboration
B. simplification精简
C. external borrowing
D. internal borrowing
参考答案：B
15. According to Searle,those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _______.
A. commisives
B. directives
C. expressives
D. declaratives
参考答案：A
二、判断题（共 10 道试题，共 40 分。）
1. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length, due to their recursive properites.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
2. Speakers of different languages are capable of distinguishing and recognizing experiences of the same objective world according to their respective different linguistic coding system.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
3. An important difference between traditional grammarians and modern linguists in their study of language is that the former tended to over-emphasize the written form of language and encourage people to imitate the “best authors” for language usage.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
4.
We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it means because the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
5. The sentences “He crazy” and “He be sick all the time” are both acceptable in Black English vernacular because copula deletion and habitual be are two famous features of Black English.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
6. The conceptualist view of meaning holds that there is no direct link between a symbol and reference, i.e. between language and thought.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
7. In first language acquisition children’s grammar models exactly after the grammar of adult language.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
8. Instruction and correction are key factors in child language development.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
9. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
10. Of the views concerning the study of semantics, the contextual view, which places the study of meaning in the context in which language is used, is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
