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
第二套
1. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are ___.(      )
  A. gradable opposites            B. relational opposites
  C. co-hyponyms                    D. synonyms
2. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar.(      )
  A. Jacob Grimm      B. Rasmus Rask
  C. Franz Bopp      D. Sir William Jones
3. A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as __.(      )
  A. unusual   B. something to be feared   C. abnormal        D. natural
4.__produce fast and fluent speech with good intonation and pronunciation but the content of their speech ranges from mildly inappropriate to complete nonsense, often as unintelligible.(      )
  A. Broca's aphasic      B. The linguistic deprivation
  C. The damage on the angular gyrus      D. Wernicke's aphasic
5. Some Southern learners of English in China tend to say “night” as “light”. This shows: (      ).
  A. They cannot pronounce/n/     
  B. Interlangue interference because there is notthe sound /n/in their mother tongue
  C. The teachers do not have a good teaching method
  D. They do not like to pronounce nasal sounds
6. A word with several meanings is called __word.(      )
  A. a polysemous    B. a synonymous    C. an abnormal    D. a multiple
7. The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn't it?” is __.(      )
  A. informative    B. phatic    C. directive    D. performative
8. The most recognizable differences between American English and British English are in __ and vocabulary.(      )
  A. usage          B. grammar      C. pronunciation      D. structure
9.__deals with the way in which a language varies through geographical space.(      )
  A. Linguistic geography      B. Lexicology
  C. Lexicography              D. Sociolinguistics
10. The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as __.(      )
  A. +animate, +male, +human,-adult  B. +animate, +male, +human, +adult
  C. +animate, -male, +human,-adult  D. +animate,-male, +human, +adult
第三套
1. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is ______.
  A. arbitrary   B. non-arbitrary   C. logical      D. non-productive
2. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i. e. rounded, EXCEPT ______.

3. The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed the ______.
  A. phrase structure              B. surface structure
  C. syntactic structure          D. deep structure
4. The theory of ______ accounts for the fact that noun phrases appear only in subject and object positions.
  A. Case Condition            B. Adjacent Condition
  C. parameter                D. Adjacent parameters
5. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ______.
  A. polysemy   B. hyponymy  C. antonymy      D. homonymy
6. The utterance "We're already working 25 hours a day, eight days a week." obviously violates the maxim of ______.
  A. quality              B. quantity            C. relation              D. manner
7. In first language acquisition children usually ______ grammatical rules from the linguistic information they hear.
  A. use        B. accept   C. generalize     D. reconstruct
8. Standardization known as ______ is necessary in order to facilitate communications.
  A. language interpretation            B. language identification
  C. language choice                  D. language planning
9. Which of the following choices is not the key biological basis for human language acquisition?
______.
  A. Cerebral cortex   B. Neurons   C. Eyes       D. Angular gyrus
10. Basically all the following categories except ______ are always missing in the children's telegraphic speech stage.
  A. the copula verb "be"              B. inflectional morphemes
  C. function words                D. content words
第四套
1. The description of a language as it changes through time is a (      ) study.
A. comparative                    B. diachronic
C. up-to-date                    D. descriptive
2. Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is (      ) phonetics.
A. auditory                        B. acoustic                 
C. articulatory                    D. none of the above three
3. What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also (      ).
A. phonemes                      B. morphemes
C. allophones                    D. phones
4. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generatvie linguists proposed and developed a theory of universal grammar known as the (      ) theory.
A. speech act                              B. TG                 
C. principles-and-parameters              D. minimalist programme
5. One way to analyze lexical meaning is (      ).
A. predication analysis                  B. stylistic analysis                 
C. componential analysis                D. proposition analysis
6. Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the (      ) because this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention.
A. locutionary act                B. illocutionary act                 
C. perlocutionary act              D. constative act
7. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar (      ).
A. Sir William Jones                B. John Firth                 
C. M. A. K. Halliday                  D. F. D. Saussure
8. A bilingual speaker often uses two languages alternatively during a conversation with another bilingual speaker, a speech situation known as (      ).
A. discourse role-switching            B. activity role-switching         
C. social role-switching              D. code-switching
9. A focal point of SLA research has been the nature and development of L2 learners’(      ).
A. second language                B. first language                 
C. foreign language              D. interlanguage
10. It is estimated that the number of basic words known by English-speaking school children of age six is around (      ).
A. 7800    B. 6800    C. 5800         D. 4800
第五套
1. Chomsky uses the term (      ) to refer to the actual realization of a language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.
A. langue     B. competence   C. parole     D. performance
2. In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of (      ).
A. palatal    B. alveolar   C. bilabial    D. dental
3. Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by (      ) in 1957.
A. L. Bloomfield    B. F. Saussure   C. N. Chomsky    D.M. A. K. Halliday
4. Natural languages are viewed to vary according to (      ) set on UG principles to particular values.
A. Adjacent Condition        B. parameters
C. Case Condition        D. Case requirement
5. Synonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which “girl” and “lass” belong is called (      ) synonyms.
A. stylistic        B. dialectal    C. emotive        D. collocational
6. The illocutionary point of (      ) is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance.
A. representatives    B. commissives    C. expressives    D. declaratives
7. Modern English words man, woman, child, eat, fight, ect. originate from (      ).
A. Middle English    B. Old English    C. French        D. Norman French
8. In a diglossic country, the two diglossic forms of a language are generally two varieties of the same language, but there are situations in which the H-variety may have no (      ) relationship with the L-variety.
A. genetic        B. social     C. direct        D. close
9. Many aphasics do not show total language loss. Rather, different aspects of language are impaired. Aphasics in (      ) area reveal word-finding difficulties and problems with syntax.
A. Werniker’s    B. visual     C. motor        D. Broca’s
10. (      ) motivation occurs when the learner desires to learn a second language in order to  communicate with native speakers of the target language.
A. Instrumental    B. Functional   C. Integrative    D. Social
第六套
1. English consonants can be classified into stops. fricatives, nasals, etc. , in terms of (      ).
A. manner of articulation        B. openness of mouth
C. place of articulation            D. voicing
2. The study of how words are combined to form sentences is called (      ).
A. phonetics        B. morphology   C. syntax            D. semantics
3. According to Chomsky, (      ) is the ideal user’s internalized knowledge of his language.
A. competence        B. parole    C. performance        D. langue
4. “Sweets” and “candy” are used respectively in Britain in and America, but refer to the same thing. The words are (      ) synonyms.
A. collocational        B. dialectal    C. complete        D. stylistic
5. Different meanings can be associated with one linguistic form, but there is no basic meaning among them. This is known as (      ).
A. homonymy        B. hyponymy    C. polysemy        D. antonymy
6. “How fast did he drive when he ran the red light?” (      ) “He ran the red light”.
A. entails            B. contradicts     C. presupposes        D. includes
7. The word “lab” is formed through (      ).
A. back formation        B. blending       C. clipping            D. derivation
8. (      ) in the brain fulfills the function of speech production.
A. Angular gyrus        B. Broca’s area   C. The right hemisphere    D. Wernicke’s area
9. When a child uses “mummy” to refer to any woman, most probably his “mummy” means (      ).
A. + Human        B. + Human + Adult
C. + Human + Adult – Male    D. + Human + Adult - Male + Parent
10. (      ) is not a suprasegmental feature.
A. Aspiration        B. Intonation   C. Stress            D. Tone