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Part I I. Multiple-choice questions . Choose the best answer for the following questions. (10%, 1% each item) 1. The distinction between langue and p arole was proposed by_____. A. Jacobson B. Bloomfield C. Saussure D. Chomsky 2. That it is wrong to split an infinitive is an example of_____ rules . A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. transformational D. functional 3. One criter iaof distinguishing different c onsonants is______. A. the height of tongue raising B. manner of articulation C. obstruction of airflow D. total stopping of air 4. Which of the following sounds is described as“ voiced bilabial stop ”?___________. A.[b] B. [z] C. [g] D. [l] 5. Which of the following words contains NO inflectional suffix? ___________. A. fastest B. darken C. easier D. studies 6. Good : Bad is an example of_____. A. gradable antonymy B. relational antonymy C. complementary antonymy D. complete antonymy 7. In the sentence “ The hunter killed the lion with a gun ”, the th ematic role of“a gun ” is______. A. agent B. patient C. experiencer D. instrument 8. In English, the part of speech pound word is usually determined by ___________. A. the rightmost morpheme B. the leftmost morpheme morpheme D. free morpheme 9. In terms of the place of articulation, the sounds [t], [s] and [n] share the feature of ________. A. palatal B. alveolar C. bilabial D. dental 10. The absence ofa word ina particular place ina semantic field ofa language is called _______. A. aphasia B. lexical gap C. speech error D. semantic field II. True or False questions. Decide whether the following statements are True or False. (10%, 1% each item) () Grammar of the English Language by Quirk et al. isa synchronic study of language. () word “ in” is an open class word . ()3. Chinese isa tone language. ()4. The word “ above ” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the coda of the first syllable. ()5. The semantic relationship between the two sentences “ John ’s son is an engineer ” and “