《轮机英语》B试卷试题及答案

1、武汉理工大学函授期末考试试卷课程名称： 英语 （ B 卷）考试方式： 闭卷 （开卷、闭卷）试卷份数： 教 学 点： 鄂州职业大学 类 别：本 （本、专）科专业年级： 题号一二三四五六七八总分阅卷教师得分1、 Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (1%X20=20%)1. 

2、Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly _.  A.prescriptive   B.descriptive   C. subjective    D. Latin-based2.  A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as _.A. abnormal B. something to be fea

3、red  C.natural D. unnatural3.  Which of the following sounds is a voiced affricate? A. dV B.tF C.z D.T4.  There are _morphemes in the word “disabled” A. one B. two    C. three D. four5.  In English, “dis-“ is called_ A. a free morpheme B. a suff

4、ix   C. an infix D. a prefix6. Black English is probably the most widespread and most familiar _ variety of the English language.   A. regional  B. ethnic  C. social    D. lower class7. The pair of words “alive” and “dead” are _.A. gradable anto

5、nyms B. complementary antonymsC. relational opposites D. co-hyponyms8.  _ belong(s) to the Indo-European language family.   A. English  B. German   C. French D. All of them 9.   The sentence “Kids like apples” is a_.A.   two-place predicati

6、on B.    three-place predicationC.   no-place predication D.   one-place predication10.  What is the construction of the sentence: “The baby smiled?”A. subordinate B. coordinate C. exocentric D. endocentric11.F. de Saussure is a(n) _ linguist.  

7、 A. American B. Swiss C. British D. Russian 12. Which of the following sounds is a voiced bilabial stop A. p B. m C. b D. t 13. Of the “words” listed below, _ is not an English word. A. spriN B. lkbi C.strikt D. 5U:ziz 14. The affixes which manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical

8、categories such as “-ing,-est” are called _. A. derivational affixes B. free morphemes C. inflectional affixes D. roots 15. The sentence containing two clauses joined by a linking word is called a _ sentence. A. coordinate B. simple C. subordinate D. embedded 16. “Words are names or labels for thing

9、s.” This view is called _ in semantic theory. A. mentalism B. contextualism   C. conceptualism D. naming theory 17. The semantic relationship between flower and rose is _. A.hyponyms B. hyponymy C. co-hyponyms D. superordinate 18. The words such as handbook and highway are _.   A

10、. formed by blending   B. coined by back-formation   C. compound words D. derivations 19. X-bar theory is _.  A.    highly specific and concrete, therefore only useful to solve concrete problems B.    capable of reducing the redundancies of

11、 individual phrasal structure rules  C.    so highly abstract that it can explain all the properties of all phrasal        categories  D.    inefficient in coping with the language structures other than those of English  

12、; 20. The words “railway” and “railroad” are _.  A. synonyms differing in emotive meaning  B.   synonyms differing in styles    C. dialectal synonyms D. synonyms differing in register二、 Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the

13、 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. (2%X20=40%)21.   Language is a system of a _ vocal symbols used for human communication.22.   The linguistic study of meaning in the

14、context of use is called p_.23.   The description of a language as it changes through time is a d_ study.24.   According to the Swiss linguist F. de Saussure, p_ refers to the realization of language in actual use.25.   The three branches of phonetics are labelled a_ ph

15、onetics, auditory phonetics and acoustic phonetics respectively.26.   M_ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.27.   S_ is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.28.   The term a_ is used for oppositeness of meaning.29. 

16、0; S_ is the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language in social contexts.30.   Variation in language use associated with the sex of individual speakers is called       g_varieties.31. A person who studies linguistics is called a l_. 32.M_ is the ling

17、uistic study of how morphemes are combined to form words. 33. In modern linguistics, s_ is considered primary over writing. 34. There are two ways to classify consonants: by place of articulation and by m_ of articulation. 35. S_ is the linguistic study of meaning in abstraction. 36. H_ refers to th

18、e phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.37. The study of language with reference to the workings of the mind is called p_. 38. Vowels can be classified by the position of the tongue, openness of the mouth and l_ of the sound. 39. The notion of linguistic determinism and

19、linguistic relativism is called the S_ hypothesis. 40. An e_ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted when the speaker or writer fears more direct wording might be harsh or unpleasant. 三、Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T

20、for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version. (2%X10=40%)41.    Competence and performance mean, to N. Chomsky, much the same thing.42.   The basic differ

21、ence between a vowel and a consonant is that in the pronunciation of the former it is characterized by the absence of obstruction of the airstream and it does not have a place of articulation in the same sense as a consonant.43.   In English, nouns, verbs, prepositions and adverbs are open

22、 classes since we can regularly add new words to these classes.44.   Sentences are strings of words put together in a random order.45.   Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning. They are two related but different aspects of meaning.46. 

23、60; “It is raining hard” is a one-place predication sentence.47.   Idiolect is the stylistic variation in a persons speech, or writing, usually ranges on a continuum from casual or colloquial to formal or polite.48.   Bilingualism describes a situation in which two very different

24、 varieties of language co-exist in a speech community, each with a distinct range of social function and appropriate for certain situations.49.   Commissive, a type of illocutionary speech acts by Searle, means bringing about immediate changes by saying something.50.   Utterance

25、meaning is based on sentence meaning; the former is concrete and context-dependent and the latter is abstract and de-contextualized.51. English language is a tone language. 52. A linguistic taboo refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the polite society from general use such as obscene

26、, profane and swear words. 53. Chinese is thought to be the first language by most linguists. 54. Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies the sentence patterns of a language. 55. Idiolect is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines aspects of all the elements regarding regional, social and stylistic variation. 56. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of old English and modern English. 57. A locutionary act of Speech Act Theory is the act