2009年10月广东自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试

现代语言学试题

课程代码：00830

Ⅰ. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C, or D in the brackets.

(2% × 10=20% )

1. Saussure used ______ to refer to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community. (　　　)

A. performance B. parole

C. langue D. competence

2. In English, a phoneme may be represented by two or more allophones. The choice of the allophone is ______. (　　　)

A. random B. rule-governed

C. haphazard D. unpredictable

3. In word-formation, a ______ is the smallest meaningful unit of language. (　　　)

A. phoneme B. word

C. compound D. morpheme

4. A ______ category usually refers to a word or phrase that performs a particular grammatical function, such as the subject or predicate in a sentence. (　　　)

A. lexical B. phrasal

C. syntactic D. phonetic

5. In the following pairs of words, ______ are a pair of relational opposites. (　　　)

A. “buy” and “sell” B. “male” and “female”

C. “hot” and “cold” D. “alive” and “dead”

6. The illocutionary point of ______ has the characteristic that the successful performance of an act of this kind brings about the correspondence between what is said and reality. (　　　)

A. directives B. declarations

C. commissives D. representatives

7. Old English had a rich case-ending system, e.g., Old English noun had four cases, i.e., nominative, genetive, dative and ______. (　　　)