全國2008年10月高等教育自學(xué)考試現(xiàn)代語言學(xué)試題

課程代碼：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.The distinction between langue and parole was made by _______ early last century.（      ）

A. American linguist N. Chomsky                 B. Swiss linguist F. de Saussure

C. American linguist Edward Sapir               D. British linguist J. R. Firthwww.examｗ.com

2.The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced _______, respectively.（      ）

A. stops                                                    B. fricatives

C. affricates                                               D. plosives

3.In the word unreliable, the prefix “un-” is a（n） _______ morpheme.（      ）

A. free                                                      B. bound

C. root                                                      D. inflectional

4.Words in a sentence are organized into groups of lexical _______, commonly known as parts

of speech.（      ）

A. verbs                                                    B. nouns

C. phrases                                                 D. categories

5.The words stationary and stationery are identical in sound, but different in spelling and meaning. They are _______.（      ）

A. complete homonyms                              B. homographs

C. hyponyms                                             D. homophones