英语专业2007-08学年第二学期普通语言学试卷和答案.pdf

1英语专业2007-2008 学年第二学期普通语言学考试试卷 1. Choose ALL the correct ones from A, B, C, or D. There may be as many as three correct choices. (30 points, 2 points each) 1) “It is wrong to split an infinitive.” This is an example of _____ rules. A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. transformational D. functional 2) The distinction petence and performance was put forward by _____. A. Leonard Bloomfield B. Ferdinand de Saussure C. Noam Chomsky D. M. A. K. Halliday 3) Which of the following is the correct description of [t]? A. Voiceless alveolar stop. B. Voiceless alveolar fricative. C. Voiced alveolar stop. D. Voiced alveolar fricative. 4) Which of the following is a voiced labiodental fricative? A. [s] B. [z] C. [v] D. [f] 5) Which of the following are “derivational suffixes”? A. -s B. -ion C. -ing D. -ify 6) Which of the following are “content words”? A. Nouns. B. Verbs. C. Determiners. D. Prepositions. 7) Which of the following is the correct bracketing of the phrase structure in the sentence “The boy is crying”? A. [[The] [boy] [is] [crying]] B. [[The] [boy]] [[is] [crying]] C. [[The boy] is [crying]] D. [[The] [boy] [is]] [crying] 8) Which of the following sentences contain a participial phrase? A. The best thing would be to leave early. B. Having finished their work, they came to our aid.