第十四套

1. The word “language” is sometimes used to refer to the whole of a person’s language called _________.

A. colloquial language　 B. scientific language

C. standard language D. idiolect

2.Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?

A. bang B. photo C. typewriter D. rumble

3.Which of the following sounds is a diphthong?

A. [ai]　B. [t]　 C[dV]　 D. [A]

4. “hot dog” with the first element stressed means________.

A. a dog which is hot

B. a barking dog

C. a kind of food

D. a dead dog

5. There are _________morphemes in the word” frightening”.

A. one B. two　C. three D. four

6. In English， “-ate” and “dis-“ are called _________.

A. Prefixes B. suffixes　 　C. infixesD. affixes

7. The phrase “boys and girls” belongs to the ______ construction.

A. complexB. coordinate

C. embeddedD. subordinate

8. The illocutionary act of the utterance “ I promise to come.” is a　_______.

A. representativeB. expressive

C. declaration　D. commissive

9.Which of the following two-term sets shows the feature of complementarity?

A. hot/coldB. doctor/patient

C. single/married　 D. husband /wife

10. Which part of the brain is generally considered to control language and speech.

A. left hemisphere B. right hemisphere

C. front hemisphereD. back hemisphere

1.　D　2. B　3. A　4. C　5. C　6. D　7. B　8. D　9. C　10.A