1、全国英语专业八级（TEM8）培训语言学2012 年 2 月序号 题号 名称 题型 题数 计分 比重 考试时间III 31-40 人文知识 客观题 10 10 10% 10 分钟III. 人文知识（Part III General Knowledge）1. 测试要求a. 能基本了解主要英语国家的地理、历史、现状、文化传统等。b. 能初步具备英语文学知识。c. 能初步具备英语语言学知识。d. 考试时间 10 分钟。2. 测试形式本部分采用多项选择题形式，要求学生从每题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，共 10 题。3. 测试目的人文知识部分测试学生对主要英语国家社会与文化、英语文学与英语语言学基本知识
2、的掌握程度。4. 测试范围a. 主要英语国家社会与文化知识。b. 英语文学知识。c. 英语语言学知识。历年专八考试语言学试题201138. is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.A. Semantics B. PragmaticsC. Cognitive linguistics D. Sociolinguistics39. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of .A. absence of obstruction
3、 B. presence of obstructionC. manner of articulation D. place of articulation40. The definition “the act of using, or promoting the use of, several languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers” refers to .A. Pidgin B. CreoleC. Multilingualism D. Bilingualism201038. refers
4、 to the learning and development of a language.A. Language acquisition B. Language comprehensionC. Language production D. Language instruction39. The word “Motel” comes from “motor + hotel”. This is an example of in morphology.A. back formation B. conversionC. blending D. acronym40. Language is a to
5、ol of communication. The symbol “Highway Closed” on ahighway serves .A. an expressive function B. an informative functionC. a performative function D. a persuasive function200938. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and productionis .A. corpus linguistics B. sociolinguisticsC
6、. theoretical linguistics D. psycholinguistics39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called .A. dialect B. idiolectC. pidgin D. register40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someon
7、e to open the window, he is performing .A. an illocutionary act B. a perlocutionary actC. a locutionary act D. none of the above200838. Which of the following is NOT the design feature of human language?A. Arbitrariness B. DisplacementC. Duality D. Diachronicity39. What type of sentence is “Mark lik
8、es fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”?A. A simple sentence B. A coordinate sentenceC. A complex sentence D. None of the above40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called . A. hyponymy B. synonymyC. polysemy D. homonymy200738. refers to the study of the
9、 internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.A. Phonology B. MorphologyC. Semantics D. Sociolinguistics39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT .A. lexical B. syntacticC. phonological D. psycholinguistic40. The word tail once referred to “ the
10、tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal”. This is an example of .A. widening of meaning B. narrowing of meaningC. meaning shift D. loss of meaning200638. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of .A. reference B. meaningC. antonymy D. conte
11、xt39. The words “kid, child, offspring” are examples of .A. dialectal synonyms B. stylistic synonymsC. emotive synonyms D. collocational synonyms40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .A. Halliday B. ChomskyC. Bloomfield D. Saussure200538. Syntax is the study of . A. language func
12、tions B. sentence structuresC. textual organization D. word formation39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?A. Arbitrariness B. ProductivityC. Cultural transmission D. Finiteness40. The speech act theory was first put forward by . A. John Searle B. John AustinC. No
13、am Chomsky D. M.A.K. Halliday200438. In semantic studies, refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.A. sense B. synonymC. homonym D. reference39. The duality of the language is .A. letters and sounds B. sounds and symbolsC. symbols and meaning D. sounds and meaning40. Of all the speech o
14、rgans, the is/are the most flexible.A. lips B. mouthC. tongue D. vocal cords200338. can be simply defined as the study of meaning. A. Syntax B. SemanticsC. Pragmatics D. Linguistics39. Which of the following is NOT one of the major branches of linguistics?A. Phonetics B. SyntaxC. Synchronic D. Seman
15、tics40. Which of the following words contains one bound morpheme?A. Disappearance B. UntouchableC. Desirability D. Physician200238. Prediction analysis is a way to analyze meaning.A. phoneme B. wordB. phrase D. sentence39. is not a suprasegmental feature.A. Aspiration B. IntonationC. Stress D. Tone40. “The orphan has no father” is a case of .A. entailment B. presuppositionC. contradiction D. tautology
