2006年10月福建自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2006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．Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing, which is a feature of（　　　）

A．all consonants B．vowels only

C．all consonants and some vowels D．all vowels and some consonants

2．The negative prefix“ in-”in English, when added to the adjective “possible”, is actually pronounced/im/,and spelt as “im”. This is the result of the ______________rule at work.（　　　）

A．deletion B．assimilation

C．phonetic D．sequential

3．The word “ecology” is a two-morpheme cluster that contains_______________.（　　　）

A．two roots B．a root and a suffix

C．a root and a free morpheme D．a prefix and a root

4．When we move the adverbial phrase “every day” in the sentence “Every day, we study English” to the end of the sentence, we are now ______________ the phrase to the right.（　　　）

A．rewriting B．preposing

C．postposing D．maintaining

5．Antonyms are divided into several kinds .Which of the following is NOT a kind of antonyms?（　　　）

A．complementary B．relational

C．superordinate D．gradable

6．In terms of predication analysis , the utterance“ Is it going to snow this afternoon?” is a______________（　　　）

A．one-place predication B．two-place predication

C．three-place predication D．no-place predication

7．In Old English, word order was freer because the case endings were rich. So in Old English, word orders included SVO, VSO, SOV and OSV. However, Modern English has a much