大学MOOC 英语语言学(信阳师范学院)1003360026 最新慕课完整章节测试答案
Chapter 1 Invitation to Language
Quiz--- Design features of language
1、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT a frequently discussed design feature?
选项：
A: Arbitrariness
B: Convention
C: Duality
D: Displacement
答案: 【 Convention 】
2、单选题：
By we mean language is resouceful because of its duality and recursiveness.
选项：
A: arbitrarinesss
B: duality
C: creativity
D: displacement
答案: 【 creativity】
3、单选题：
"An refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2,000 years ago." This shows that language has the design feature of
选项：
A: arbitrariness
B: creativity
C: duality
D: displacement
答案: 【 displacement】
4、判断题：
A ccording to Lyons, the relation between the signified and the signifier is arbitrary.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
5、判断题：
The boe-wow theory is a theory on the origin of language.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确】
6、判断题：
Onomatopoeic words can show the arbitrary nature of language.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
7、填空题：
In Saussure's view, the relationship between signifier (sound image) and signified (concept) is .
答案: 【 arbitrary】
8、填空题：
The features tha t define our human languages can be called features.
答案: 【 design】
9、填空题：
By is meant the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of orgnisation.
答案: 【 duality】
Quiz
1、单选题：
When language is used to get information from others, it serves an function
选项：
A: informative
B: directive
C: interrogative
D: performative
答案: 【 informative】
2、单选题：
The fuction of the sentence "Water boils at 100 degree Centigrade" is .
选项：
A: direcitive
B: performative
C: interrogative
D: informative
答案: 【 informative】
3、判断题：
When language is use to ger information from others, it serves an informative function.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
4、填空题：
refers to the role language plays in communication(e.g. to express ideas, attitudes) or in particular situations(e.g. Religious, legal).
答案: 【 Function】
5、填空题：
When language is used for establishing an atmosphere or maintainding social contact rather than exchanging information or dieas, its function is function
答案: 【 phatic】
QUIZ_ Important Distinctions
1、判断题：
F. de Saussure, who made the distinction between langue and parole in the early 20th century, was a French linguist
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
2、判断题：
A study of the features of the English used in Shakespeare’s time is an example of the diachronic study of language.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
3、判断题：
All the languages in the world today have both spoken and written forms.
选项：
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误】
4、填空题：
One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of __________ over writing.
答案: 【 speech】
第一单元测试
1、单选题：
language has many functions. We can use language to talk about itself. This function is
选项：
A: phatic
B: emotic
C: poetic
D: metalingual
答案: 【 metalingual】
2、单选题：
In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually termed
选项：
A: displacement
B: arbitrariness
C: creativity
D: duality
答案: 【 creativity】
3、单选题：
Which property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation.
选项：
A: displacemeny
B: creativity
C: duality
D: cultural transmission
答案: 【 displacemeny】
4、单选题：
Language has two levels of structures: the system of sounds and the system of meanings. This feature is referred to as .
选项：
A: creativity
B: duality
C: arbitrariness
D: displacement
答案: 【 duality】
5、单选题：
Halliday’s three metafunctions of language are .
选项：
A: ideational, interpersonal, metalingual
B: ideational, textual, emotive
C: interpersonal, textual, referential
D: ideational, interpersonal, textual
答案: 【 ideational, interpersonal, textual】
6、单选题：
The study of how words are formed in a language is a branch in linguistics called .
选项：
A: phonetics
B: morphology
C: syntax
D: semantics
答案: 【 morphology】
7、单选题：
The study of meaning in its context is a branch called .
选项：
A: semantics
B: morphology
C: syntax
D: pragmatics
答案: 【 pragmatics】
8、单选题：
Which branch in linguistics study general meaning? .
选项：
A: semantics
B: pragmatics
C: phonetics
D: syntax
答案: 【 semantics】
9、单选题：
The description of a language at some point of time in history is a study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a historical study.
选项：
A: diachonic
B: synchronic
C: traditional
D: modern
答案: 【 synchronic 】
10、单选题：
The distinction between langue and parole was made by .
选项：
A: F. de Saussure
B: Halliday
C: Chomsky
D: Bloomfield
答案: 【 F. de Saussure】
11、单选题：
Chomsky proposed the distinction between competence and performance. He thinks that what linguists should study is the ideal speaker's .
选项：
A: performance
B: grammam
C: competance
D: meaning
答案: 【 competance】
12、单选题：
Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
选项：
A: tree
B: classroom
C: bang
D: girlfriend
答案: 【 tree】
13、多选题：
The scope of linguistics covers
选项：
A: phonetics
B: phonology
C: morphology
D: syntax
E: semantics
F: pragmatics
G: philology
答案: 【 phonetics;
phonology;
morphology;
syntax;
semantics;
pragmatics】
14、多选题：
Jakobson identifies six language functions, emotive, conative, referential, the other three are
选项：
A: poetic
B: phatic communion
C: metalingual communion
D: textual
答案: 【 poetic;
phatic communion;
metalingual