1、[单选题] Speaking is the quickest and most efficient way of the human communication systems.摘要：1、[单选题] Speaking is the quickest and most efficient way of the human communication systems.A、 TrueB、 False 2、[单选题] The major difference between a...
A、 True
B、 False
2、[单选题] The major difference between a sentence and an utterance is that a sentence is not uttered while an utterance is.A、True
B、False
3、[单选题] If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a(n) _________.A、 Constative
B、 directive
C、 utterance
D、 expressive
4、[单选题] Speech act theory started in the late 50’s of the 20th century.A、 True
B、 False
5、[单选题] Words that are close in meaning are called ______________.A、 Homonyms
B、 polysemies
C、 hyponyms
D、 synonyms
6、[单选题] “Can I borrow your bike?”_______ “You have a bike.”A、is synonymous with
B、is inconsistent with
C、entails
D、presupposes
7、[单选题] A person’s social backgrounds do not exert a shaping influence on his choice of linguistic features.A、True
B、False
8、[单选题] The stem of disagreements is__________.A、 agreement
B、 agree
C、 disagree
D、 disagreement
9、[单选题] __________refers to the actual realization of the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in utterances.A、Performance
B、Competence
C、Langue
D、Parole
10、[单选题] Speech and writing came into being at much the same time in human history.A、 True
B、 False
11、[单选题] __________is a way in which new words may be formed from already existing words by subtracting an affix which is thought to be part of the old word.A、affixation
B、back-formation
C、insertion
D、addition
12、[单选题] Fore in foretell is both a prefix and a bound morpheme.A、 True
B、 False
13、[单选题] The words like comsat and sitcom are formed by__________.A、blending
B、clipping
C、back-formation
D、acronymy
14、[单选题] What kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating?A、Voiceless
B、Voiced
C、Glottal stop
D、Consonant
15、[单选题] Only human beings are able to communicate.A、True
B、False
16、[单选题] All of them are meaningful except for__________.A、 lexeme
B、 phoneme
C、 morpheme
D、 allomorph
17、[单选题] A sentence is considered ____ when it does not conform to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.A、 Right
B、 wrong
C、 grammatical
D、 ungrammatical
18、[单选题] A study of the features of the English used in Shakespeare’s time is an example of the diachronic study of language.A、True
B、False
19、[单选题] Utterances always take the form of complete sentencesA、 True
B、 False
20、[单选题] Language is a means of verbal communication. Therefore, the communication way used by the deaf-mute is not language.A、True
B、False
