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一、单项选择题
(
在每小题的四个备选答案中，选出一个正确答案，并将正确答案的序号填在题干的括号内。每小题
2
分，共
20
分
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1.The description of a language as it changes through time is a (
) study.
A. comparative
B. diachronic
C. up-to-date
D. descriptive
2. Of the three branches of phonetics,
the longest established,
and until recently the most highly developed,
is (
) phonetics.
A. auditory
B. acoustic
C. articulatory
D. none of the above three
3. What the element
‘
-es
’
indicates is third person singular,
present tense, the element
‘
-ed
’
past tense, and
‘
-ing
’
progressive aspect.
Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also (
).
A. phonemes
B. morphemes
C. allophones
D. phones
4. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generatvie linguists proposed and developed a theory of universal grammar known as the (
) theory.
A. speech act
B. TG
C. principles-and-parameters
D. minimalist programme
5. One way to analyze lexical meaning is (
).
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