2015考研英语语言学选择题大突破(第一套)
第一套
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 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
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
10、According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.
A、 learning B、 competence C、 performance D、 acquisition