第十套

1. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _______.

A. prescriptive B. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistic

2. Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness B. Displacement C. Duality D. Meaningfulness

3. Modern linguistics regards the written language as _______.

A. primary B. correct C. secondary D. stable

4. In modern linguistics, speech is regarded as more basic than writing, because _______.

A. in linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing

B. speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed

C. speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue

D. All of the above

5. A historical study of language is a _______ study of language.

A. synchronic B. diachronic C. prescriptive D. comparative

6. Saussure took a(n) _______ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a ________ point of view.

A. sociological…psychological B. psychological…sociological

C. applied…pragmatic D. semantic…linguistic

7. According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A. parole B. performance C. langue D. Language

8. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _______ and meanings.

A. sense B. sounds C. objects D. ideas

9. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called _______,

A. displacement B. duality C. flexibility D. cultural transmission

10. The details of any language system is passed on from one generation to the next through _______, rather than by instinct.

A. learning B. teaching C. books D. both A and B