微信小程序一、单项选择题（共 15 道试题，共 60 分。）
1. In a speech community people have something in common __________a language or a particular variety of language and rules for using it.
A. socially
B. linguistically
C. culturally
D. pragmatically
参考答案：B
2.
The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade.” is __________
A. interrogative
B. directive
C. informative
D. performative
参考答案：C
3.
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human __________
A. contact
B. communication
C. relation
D. community
参考答案：B
4. The consonant [f] in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features: __________.
A. voiceless, bilabial, stop
B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative
C. voiced, bilabial, stop
D. voiced, labiodental, fricative
参考答案：B
5.
In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say“碎碎（岁岁）平安”as a means of controlling the forces which they believes feel might affect their lives. Which functions does it perform?
A. Interpersonal
B. Emotive
C. Performative
D. Recreational
参考答案：C
6. In the phrase structure rule “S→NP VP”, the arrow can be read as __________.
A. is equal to
B.
consists of
C. has
D. generates
参考答案：B
7. Which of the major mental functions listed below is not under the control of the left hemisphere in most people? __________.
A. language and speech
B. visual and spatial skills
C. reading and writing
D. analytic reasoning
参考答案：B
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
参考答案：C
9. Y’s utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of __________.
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
参考答案：C
10. “I bought some roses” __________ “I bought some flowers”.
A. entails
B. presupposes
C. is inconsistent with
D. is synonymous with
参考答案：A
11. Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of the language. This means that phonemes, __________, words and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost or altered.
A. phrases
B. sentences
C. morphemes
D. utterances
参考答案：C
12. In general, the __________ stage begins roughly in the second half of the child’s second year.
A. babbling
B. one-word
C. two-word
D. multiword
参考答案：C
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
参考答案：C
14.
Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation?
A. Transferability
B. Duality
C. Displacement
D. Arbitrariness
参考答案：C
15.
Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
A. tree
B. typewriter
C. crash
D. bang
参考答案：A
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 being before the spoken form.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
2. In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as/i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
3. The division of English into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and not arbitrary.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
4. A compound is the combination of only two words.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
5. If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
6. An important difference between presupposition and entailment is that presupposition, unlike entailment, is not vulnerable to negation. That is to say, if a sentence is negated, the original presupposition is still true.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
7.
“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture.”,and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.”belong to the same syntactic category.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
8. Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations while linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
9. Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：B
10. When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their language and the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any sounds in their native language once their parents teach them.
A. 错误
B. 正确
参考答案：A
