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专八人文：英国文学部分精选习题The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?A. The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.B. England's domestic rest.C. New discovery in geography and astrology.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy WarIt is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Martin LutherC. William LanglandD. John Gower All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Ben JonsonIt is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of .A. elegyB. odeC. epicD. sonnetDaniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on .A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC. the struggle of the pirates for wealthD. the desire of the criminals for propertyIn Beowulf, fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.A. the Anglo-SaxonsB. BeowulfC. the ScandinavianD. the Winter Dragon Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. works D playsMost of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex .A. a crude region in EnglandB. a fictional primitive regionC. a remote rural areaD. Hardy's hometownWe can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except .A. swiftB. proudC. tamedD. wild"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of .A. ElizabethB. DarcyC. Mr. BennetD. Mrs. BennetThe modern English novel came into being in .A. the middle of the 17th centuryB. the 17th centuryC. the late 18th centuryD. the middle of the 18th centuryWho is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. EliotB. JoyceC. Charles DickensD. PoundWho is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. . YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SouthyC. William Words worthD. William ShakespeareIn the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. HouyhnhnmD. EnglandWhich of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble origin D progressiveIn the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.B. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinkingThe term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of .A. John MiltonB. John DonneC. John KeatsD. John Bunyan"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in . A. The Pilgrim's Progress B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy WarIn Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes .A. money worshipping tendencyB. dehumanizing of workhouse systemC. hypocrisy of the upper societyD. distortion of human heart Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?A. Julius CaesarB. The Merry Wives of WindsorC. Henry IVD. King Lear Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Hard TimesC. Oliver TwistD. Sons and Lovers The 18th century England is known as the in the history.A. RomanticismB. ClassicismC. RenaissanceD. Enlightenment专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. EvolutionWhich statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-DickThe Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history of New YorkIn Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the aboveThe period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodThe Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .A. 1861 – 1914B. 1863 – 1918C. 1865 – 1914D. 1865 – 1918Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD. TonyMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .A. modernismB. naturalismC. vernacularismD. local colorismIn 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named .A. The son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White Fang In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of Africa.B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.C. To Have and Have Not.D. Death in the Afternoon.Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. TheodoreDreiserWho is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?A. Sinclair LevisB. Eugene O'NeilC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee Williams The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except .A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayIn 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. . EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene O'NeilC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Theodore DreiserIn 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .A. Main StreetB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg, OhioD. Sister Carrie 专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?A. Language is a systemB. Language is symbolicC. Animals also have languageD. Language is arbitraryWhich of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?A. SymbolicB. DualC. ProductiveD. ArbitraryWhat is the most important function of language?A. InterpersonalB. PhaticC. InformativeD. MetalingualWho put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?A. SaussureB. ChomskyC. HallidayD. AnonymousAccording to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?A. competenceB. paroleC. performanceD. langueThe function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is .A. informativeB. phaticC. directiveD. performativeArticulatory phonetics mainly studies .A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speechB. the perception of soundsC. the combination of soundsD. the production of soundsThe distinction between vowels and consonants lies in .A. the place of articulationB. the obstruction of airstreamC. the position of the tongueD. the shape of the lipsWhich is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classificationand transcription?A. PhoneticsB. PhonologyC. SemanticsD. PragmaticsWhich studies the sound systems in a certain language?A. PhoneticsB. PhonologyC. SemanticsD. PragmaticsMinimal pairs are used to .A. find the distinctive features of a languageB. find the phonemes of a languageC. compare two wordsD. find the allophones of languageUsually, suprasegmental features include ,length and pitch.A. phonemeB. speech soundsC. syllablesD. stressWhich is an indispensable part of a syllable?A. CodaB. OnsetC. StemD. PeakWhich is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?A. WordB. MorphemeC. AllomorphD. RootWhich studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?A. MorphologyB. SyntaxC. PhonologyD. SemanticsLexeme is .A. a physically definable unitB. the common factor underlying a set of formsC. a grammatical unitD. an indefinable unitWhich of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?A. [s]B. [iz]C. [ai]D. [is]All words contain a .A. root morphemeB. bound morphemeC. prefixD. suffixThe relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is .A. homonymyB. hyponymyC. polysemyD. synonymyThe part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called . A. lexicon B. morphology C. syntax D. semanticsWhich of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?A. genderB. numberC. caseD. voiceThe pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are . A. gradable opposites B. converse opposites C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms "Big" and "Small" are a pair of opposites. A. complementary B. gradable C. complete D. converseAccording to C. Morris and R. Carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters?A. syntaxB. semanticsC. pragmaticsD. sociolinguisticsThere are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday.A. 3B. 4C. 5D. 6In the following conversation:- Beirut is in Peru, isn't it?- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.The second person violates the .A. Quantity MaximB. Quality MaximC. Relation MaximD. Manner Maxim The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the conversation.A. quantityB. qualityC. mannerD. relation专八人文知识考前模拟试题１．Which one of the four is NOT correct?A) English-speaking countries are UK, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc.B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc.D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc. ２．The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written byA) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen PoeC) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery３．Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut?A) Yale University. B) Harvard.C) Princeton. D) Columbia.４．The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is __ MORPHOLOGY..A) phoneme B) morphemeC) semantics D) morphology５．Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick?A) William James. B) Herman Melville.C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper.６．What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of theA) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior.C) Lake Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake.７．Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956?A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb.C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson.８．Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and raised in Ireland?A) Jonathan Swift. B) W'filiam Buffer Yeats.C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning.９．Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.A) northwestern part B) southwestern partC) northeastern part D) southeastern part１０．Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature.A) Eugene O' Neill B) Sinclair LewisC) TS. Eliot D) W'dliam Fanlkner专八人文知识考前模拟试题2The first capital of the young nation of the USA is .A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) New York D) WashingtonWhich one of the following American cities is the birthplace of jazz?A) New Orleans. B) New York. C) Boston. D) Chicago.Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poem Ode to the West Wind ?A) Wifiliam Wordsworth. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) Percy Shelley. D) David Bum.When was Elizabeth I came to the throne of England?A) 1538. B) 1548. . D) 1558.When was Oxford University founded?A) 1167 in Oxford, B) 1267 in Oxford.C) 1367 in Oxford. D) 1467 in Oxford.Canada is often described as a huge ~ centered on the Hudson and James Bay.A) plate B) saucer C) cup D) bowlIn the literature of sociolinguistics, refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically con strained by a common set of behavioural rules.A) domain B) distribution C) dissimilation D) discourseis a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.A) loanshifting B) loanblending C) loan translation D) logical connection What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America?A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Maria Edgeworth. C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Dickinson.Who wrote and published the philosophical work Essay Concerning Human Understanding?A) John Milton. B) John Locke. C) Richard Steele. D) Joseph Addison. 专八人文知识考前模拟试题3_ is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transportation.A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phoneme D) Phonetic typologyThe sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air-stream at some point the vocal tract are called .A) consonance B) consonant cluster C) consistency D) consonantsIn its technical sense here, __ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations.A) pictogram B) lexicon C) word-formation D) ideogramWhen was Longrnan Group UK Ltd was founded?A) 1721. B).1722. C) 1723. D).1724.What is the name of the dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson?A) First English Dictionary. B) Dictionary of English Language.C) A Dictionary of the English Language. D) Dictionary of the English Language.Who wrote and publish Poor Richard's Almanack?A) Benjamin Franklin. B) John Gay. C) David Hume. D) Samuel Richardson. Which one of the following four books was written by Harriet Stowe?A) Roughing It in the Bush. B) Walden, or Life in the Woods.C) Adam Bede. D) Uncle Tom's Cabin._ _ the capital of New South Wales, is the oldest and largest city in Australia.A) Melbourne B) Sydney C) Darwin D) Canberra, Valentine's Day, is sweethearts' day, on which people in love with each other express their tender emotions.A) February 10th B) February 12th C) February 14th D) February 16th Major Newspapers and Magazines in the USA are , etc.A) New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TimesB) New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun, TimesC) New York Times, Washington Post, The Evening Post, TimesD) New York Times, Washington Post, Sunday Times, Times答案：ＡＤＢＤＣＡＤＢＣＡ。

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专八人文知识试题

专八人文知识试题

专业英语八级人文知识1. All of the Great Lakes are shared between the United States and Canada EXCEPT (C)A. Lake OntarioB. Lake SuperiorC. Lake MichiganD. Lake Erie2. Which group of people can Not vote in the British general election? (B)A. member in the House of CommonsB. Lords in the House of LordsC. the UK citizens above the age of 18D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic3. Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of (D)A. sonnetB. coupletC. blank verseD. free verse4. Speech is the primary medium of language.5. The first English colony in America established in Jamestown.6. In the 1960s, the Beatles became world famous and turned their hometown of Liverpool into a place of pilgrimage.7. The Angles and Saxons are the ancestors of the English people today.8. Prometheus Unbound was written by Shelly.9. Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! was written in memorial of Lincoln.10. Saussure puts forward the distinction between diachronic studies and synchronic studies.11. The majority of back-formed words are verbs.12. Illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something; it is an expression of the speaker’s intention.13. Washington D.C, capital of the United States, is named after George Washington and Christopher Columbus.14. English didn’t became the official; language of the English until 14th after the Hundred Years’ War.15. Martin Eden is Jack London’s masterpiece and it is somewhat autobiog raphical.16. The Input Hypothesis was put forward by Krashen.17. A series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the House of Lancaster and the House of York in the 15th century are also known as the wars of the Roses.18. The oldest newspaper in Australia is The Sydney Morning Herald.19. The Gift of the Magi was written by O’ Henry.20. Nouns’ verbs and adjectives can be classified as open class words.21. Which of the following sports originated from Scotland? (A)A GolfB FootballC BasketballD Tennis22. The Second largest racial and ethnic group in the United Stated is (B)A the whiteB the HispanicsC ChineseD the Blacls23. Martin Luther King, Jr. who delivered a famous speech named I HAVE A DREAM was the leader of Civil Rights Movement in USA.24. Which of the following is the largest province in Canada? (A)A QuebecB SaskatchewanC OntarioD British Columbia25. Robert Louis Stevenson is a representative of Neo-Romanticism in English literature.26. Both of phonology and phonetics are concerned with the study of speech sounds.27. Male/female, married/single and alive/dead are examples of complementarity.28. The Sapir-Worf hypothesis is about language and thought.29. The symbol marking the declination of the British Empire is THE SUEZ CANAL CRISIS.30. The colonists first settled in South Australia in Australia.31.In the 20th century, under the influence of Freud’s theory of psycho-analysis, a number of writers adopted the stream of consciousness method of novel writing.32. Componential analysis refers to an approach adopted by structural semanticists in describing the meaning of words and phrases.33. Second Language Acquisition concentrates on code.34. The components of the British Parliament: the House of Lord, the House of Commons and the Queen/King.35. Quebec is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population.36. The Australian National Day is chosen to commemorate the first European settlement of the continent.37. The Catcher in the Rye was written by Jerome David Salinger.38. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of manners.39. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a type of situation is a register.40. Quantity Maxim means that in conversation we should be as informative as required.41. Canada is the second largest country in the word.42. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered as an anti-utopian novel.43. Toni Morrison is the first American black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____A Jack LondonB Charles DickensC Samuel ColeridgeD Ernest Hemingway2.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ProgressB Edmund Spencer's The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD Henry Fielding's Tom Jones3.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____A J.D. SalingerB Jack LondonC Flannery O'ConnorD Saul Bellow4.The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____A Washington IrvingB Fennimore CooperC Edith WhartonD William Dean Howells5.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ____A O'NeilB PoundC Robert Frost DScott Fitzgerald6.____ is the most important person of the transcendental club.A HawthornB WhitmanC EmersonD Hemingway7. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____A fridendshipB love and marriageC life and deathD war and peace8.Robert Frost is a famous ____A novelistB playwrightC poetD literary critic9.Dover Beach is written by ____A Robert BrowningB Alfred TennysonC Mathew ArnoldD Dylan Thomas10.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ____ in the literary history of the United States.A Age of RealismB Age of ClasicalismC Age of RomanticismD Age of Renaissance答案详解：1.D 《老人与海》是海明威的作品。

专八人文知识习题MicrosoftWord文档

专八人文知识习题MicrosoftWord文档

一．美国概况1. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is the Mississippi River.（密西西比河也是美国最长最为重要的河流，被美国人“众河之父”Father of Waters）2. Non-Hispanic white is the largest racial group in the whole population of U.S. A.3. Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is African Americans. 2000年前美国黑人是美国人数最多的少数民族，2000年后Hispanics/Latinos也就是拉丁裔的美国人成为美国人数最多的少数民族。

4. America has the world's oldest written constitution and political party.5. As to roles of American president, which is NOT precisely defined in the U. S. Constitution?A. He is the head of the stateB. He is the chief executive of the U. S.C. He is the commander in chief of the armed forcesD. He is the head of his political party6. The economic problems caused by the depression in 1929 were eventually solved by the New Deal. （proposed by F. D. Roosevelt）7. The New England region's cultural character was shaped largely by Puritan spirit.8. California is the largest state in terms of size and population in America.9. Which of the following is NOT America's newspaper?A. Wall Street JournalB. USA todayC. Guardian （英国《卫报》）D. The Milwaukee Journal10. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MTV, HBO等都是美国主要的新闻与有线电视网络（News and Cable Networks）11. To the west of mainland America lies the Pacific Ocean. 美国大陆东部则是大西洋。

专八人文知识历年真题

专八人文知识历年真题

专八人文知识历年真题在回答这个题目前，首先要明确专八人文知识的范围。

专八考试是中国的一个外语水平考试，主要测试考生在听力、阅读、写作和翻译四个方面的能力。

其中，人文知识部分考察考生对文学、历史、地理、哲学、艺术和其他人文学科的理解。

因此，本文将从以上这些学科中选取历年真题，并进行解析和讨论。

1. 文学类题目1.1 2008年真题：《红楼梦》是一部多层次的艺术巨著，那么请问它可以被归类为哪一种文学体裁？1.2 2012年真题：《西游记》中的角色形象各具特色，那么请问其中可爱而机智的是谁？1.3 2015年真题：以下各位作家中，哪位是20世纪中国现代文学的杰出代表？2. 历史类题目2.1 2009年真题：中国古代的四大发明对世界文明的发展产生了巨大影响，请问四大发明分别是什么？2.2 2013年真题：中国古代盛世的标志之一是科技的繁荣，请问唐朝的科技成就有哪些？2.3 2016年真题：中国古代文明中，哪个朝代在科技、文化和艺术方面取得了高度发展？3. 地理类题目3.1 2010年真题：丝绸之路是中国与世界交流的重要路径，请问它起始于哪个城市？3.2 2014年真题：中国的四大名山分别是哪几座？3.3 2017年真题：黄河和长江是中国两大重要河流，请问它们分别发源于哪个地区？4. 哲学类题目4.1 2011年真题：儒家思想是中国传统文化的重要组成部分，请问儒家思想的核心价值观是什么？4.2 2015年真题：以下哪位中国古代思想家被誉为“中国古代哲学家之王”？4.3 2018年真题：“道可道非常道”出自哪位中国古代思想家的著作？5. 艺术类题目5.1 2012年真题：中国古代的京剧以其独特的表演形式和艺术魅力闻名，请问京剧起源于哪个地区？5.2 2016年真题：中国画是中国传统艺术的重要组成部分，请问著名的《清明上河图》是哪位画家的作品？5.3 2019年真题：中国的园林艺术以其精美的设计和丰富的内涵吸引了世界的瞩目，请问苏州园林是中国哪个朝代的典型代表？以上是一些专八人文知识历年真题的范例，每个真题后面都有对应的问题。

专八人文知识(1)及答案

专八人文知识(1)及答案

Chapter 1 Invitations to LinguisticsUnit 11. Syntax is the study of ____. (TEM 8, 2005)A. language functionsB. sentence structuresC. textual organizationD. word formation2. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? (TEM 8, 2005)A. ArbitrarinessB. ProductivityC. Cultural transmissionD. Finiteness3. The distinction between parole and langue is made by ____. (TEM 8, 2006)A. HallidayB. ChomskyC. BloomfieldD. Saussure4. The description of a language at some point in history is called a ____ study.A. prescriptiveB. synchronicC. descriptiveD. diachronic5. ____ is the study of language in relation to the mind.A. Historical linguisticsB. PsycholinguisticsC. SemanticsD. Morphology6. Which of the following theories is NOT about the origin of language? ____A. Divine-origin theoryB. Speech act theoryC. Invention theoryD. Evolution theory7. The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn’t it?” is ____.A. directiveB. informativeC. phaticD. emotive8. ____ is regarded as “father of modern linguistics”.A. HallidayB. WhorfC. SaussureD. Chomsky9. The study which applies the findings of linguistics to teaching English as a foreign language is often referred to as ____.A. psycholinguisticsB. applied linguisticsC. pragmaticsD. sociolinguisticsAnswers:1-5: BDDBB 6-9: BCCBUnit 21. ____ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation. (TEM 8, 2007)A. PhonologyB. MorphologyC. SemanticsD. Sociolinguistics2. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? ___(TEM 8, 2008)A. ArbitrarinessB. DisplacementC. DualityD. Diachronicity3. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is ____ (TEM 8, 2009)A. corpus linguisticsB. sociolinguisticsC. theoretical linguisticsD. psycholinguistics4. ____ is the knowledge of the rules of an ideal spe aker’s language.A. PerformanceB. CapacityC. AbilityD. Competence5. Which of the following is NOT a major branch of linguistics? ____A. PhoneticsB. PragmaticsC. SpeechD. Sociolinguistics6. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.A. dualityB. displacementC. arbitrarinessD. productivity7. In traffic lights, red can only mean stop. But in human languages, limited phonemes can form numerous words which can form unlimited sentences. This is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.A. dualityB. displacementC. arbitrarinessD. cultural transmission8. In linguistics, the study of meaning is called ____.A. phonologyB. morphologyC. semanticsD. sociolinguistics9. The study of language as a whole is usually called ____.A. applied linguisticsB. sociolinguisticsC. general linguisticsD. psycholinguisticsAnswers:1-5: BDDDC 6-9: CACCUnit 31. Which of the following modes of study emphasizes the “standards” of language? ____A. DescriptiveB. PrescriptiveC. SynchronicD. Diachronic2. The distinction between competence and performance is made by ____.A. SaussureB. BloomfieldC. SapirD. Chomsky3. Which of the following does NOT belong to the Indo-European family? ____A. FrenchB. BengaliC. ChineseD. Polish4. That language can be used to refer to things that are not present in time or space is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.A. dualityB. displacementC. arbitrarinessD. productivity5. ____ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.A. DialectB. ParoleC. LangueD. Performance6. Which of the following statements about language is NOT true? ____A. Language is a systemB. Language is symbolicC. Animals also have languagesD. Language is arbitrary7. The fact that we can always write new sentences to express our new ideas is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.A. dualityB. displacementC. arbitrarinessD. productivity8. According to Saussure, ____ refers to the real utterances produced by real people in real situation.A. performanceB. langueC. paroleD. competence9. The study of the relationship between language and gender is in the realm of ____.A. psycholinguisticsB. sociolinguisticsC. pragmaticsD. applied linguistics Answers:1-5: BDCBC 6-9: CDCB。