2014年4月全国高等教育自学考试现代语言学真题

2014年4月全国高等教育自学考试现代语言学真题

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选择题部分

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。

Ⅰ. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (2% × 10=20%)

1. The fact that different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages well illustrates the ________ nature of language.

A. cultural B. dual

C. productive D. arbitrary

2. In English the two sounds [p] and [ph] are ________.

A. a minimal pair B. allophones

C. two phonemes D. in phonemic contrast

3. The word “decentralize” contains ________ morphemes.

A. 3 B. 4

C. 5 D. 6 4. A ________ sentence contains two clauses joined by a linking word, such as “and,” “but,” “or.”

A. simple B. complicated

C. coordinate D. complex

5. The sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a typical example of violation of ________.

A. speech act theory B. principles of conversation

C. selectional restrictions D. grammatical rules

6. The illocutionary point of the ________ is to commit the speaker to something’s being the case, to the truth of what has been said.

A. expressives B. commissives

C. declaratives D. representatives

7. ________ separated the period of Middle English from that of Modern English.

A. The revival of Latin as a literary language

B. Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s poems

C. European military invasion

D. European renaissance movement

8. The following are the syntactic features of Black English EXCEPT ________.

A. systematic use of “it is” instead of “there is”

B. frequent absence of various forms of “be”

C. use of double negation constructions

D. absence of subject

9. ________ has a strikingly different view from the other three on language and thought.

A. Plato B. Aristotle

C. Watson D. Bloomfield

10. ________ motivation occurs when the learner desires to learn a second language as a primary means of communication in his or her own community.

A. Instrumental B. Functional

C. Integrative D. Social

非选择题部分

注意事项：

用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。

Ⅱ. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word on the ANSWER SHEET, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%×10=10% ) 11. Linguistics studies not any particular language, e.g., English, Chinese, Arabic, and Latin, but it studies l in general.

12. Speech sounds can be initially classified into two broad categories: vowels and c .

13. The suffix -er in the word “taller” is an i morpheme.

14. Apart from sentences and clauses, a syntactic category usually refers to a word or a phrase that performs a particular g________ function.

15. In terms of componential analysis, the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components, called s ________ features.

16. The u meaning of a sentence varies with the context in which it is said.

17. In general, linguistic change in the sound system and the v of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar

18. The non-prestige variety in diglossia is called the l variety.

19. Language functions are believed to be lateralized primarily in the l hemisphere of the brain.

20. In children’s prelinguistic stage, the first recognizable sounds are described as c , with velar consonants such as /k/ and high vowels such as /u/ usually present.

Ⅲ. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false.