2024知到答案 普通语言学（全英文）（北京师范大学） 最新智慧树满分章节测试答案
第一章 单元测试
文章目录
1、单选题：
Which design feature of human language is reflected in the following line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”? （ ）
选项：
A:Duality
B:Arbitrariness
C:Creativity
D:Displacement
答案: 【Arbitrariness】
2、单选题：
Which design feature of human language is reflected in the following poem? （ ）The song of canariesNever varies
选项：
A:Duality
B:Arbitrariness
C:Displacement
D:Creativity
答案: 【Creativity】
3、单选题：
Which of the following theories about the origin of language would use examples of words such as “glisten, gleam, glaze, glitter, glow …”as an evidence for the mysterious correspondence between sound and meaning? （ ）
选项：
A:The “pooh-pooh” theory
B:The “ding-dong” theory
C:The “yo-he-ho” theory
D:The “bow-wow” theory
答案: 【The “ding-dong” theory】
4、多选题：
The following are some book titles of linguistics. Can you judge from the titles which book(s) has(have) synchronic orientation? （ ）
选项：
A:Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.
B:Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage
C:English Examined: Two Centuries of Comment on the Mother-Tongue
D:The Categories and Types of Present-DAY English Word-Formation
答案: 【Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.;
Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage;
The Categories and Types of Present-DAY English Word-Formation】
5、多选题：
Which design feature of human language is reflected in the following remarks by Bertrand Russell:“No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.”? （ ）
选项：
A:Displacement
B:Arbitrariness
C:Creativity
D:Duality
答案: 【Displacement;
Creativity】
6、判断题：
There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but 90% of the population speaks only 10% of them. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
7、判断题：
There is nothing inherent about most words that gives them heir meaning; any group of speech sounds could have any meaning. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
8、判断题：
The rules in grammar textbooks are guidelines for correct language use and should be followed whenever possible. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Consonants and vowels are different in terms of __ （ ）
选项：
A:how the air stream is obstructed
B:how the lips are shaped
C:how the tongue are raised
D:how vocal folds vibrate
答案: 【how the air stream is obstructed】
2、单选题：
How many sounds are there in English?（ ）
选项：
A:40
B:38
C:44
D:42
答案: 【44】
3、多选题：
What organs are involved in speech production? （ ）
选项：
A:mouth
B:lungs
C:throat
D:trachea
答案: 【mouth;
lungs;
throat;
trachea】
4、多选题：
Which of the following consonants are alveolar sounds? （ ）
选项：
A:/z/
B:/t/
C:/ʃ/
D:/r/
答案: 【/z/;
/t/;
/r/】
5、单选题：
Which is the phonetic transcription of the word peak? （ ）
选项：
A:[pi:k]
B:/pi:k/
C:/pik/
D:[pʰi:k]
答案: 【[pʰi:k]】
6、单选题：
English consonant clusters are quite limited in the sounds they may contain. No more than ____ consonants may occur at the beginning of a word. （ ）
选项：
A:5
B:4
C:3
D:2
答案: 【3】
7、判断题：
A syllable must have a nucleus or peak, which is often the task of a vowel and a consonant after the vowel. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
8、单选题：
Which sound corresponds to the following phonetic description “voiceless alveolar fricative”? （ ）
选项：
A:/ʃ/
B:/f/
C:/z/
D:/s/
答案: 【/s/】
9、判断题：
All the front vowels and the central vowels are unrounded vowels and all the back vowels are rounded. （ ）(No. All the back vowels, with the exception of /a:/, are rounded.)
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】