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.Often referred to as a design feature of language, ________ enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences that they have neither spoken nor heard before.
A.duality B.productivity
C.displacement D.arbitrariness
2.________ phoneticians study speech sounds from the speaker’s point of view.They study the process of how a speaker uses his/her speech organs to produce sounds.( )
A.Articulatory B.Auditory
C.Acoustic D.General
3.Morphemes such as -er, -en, in-are all called ________.( )
A.free morphemes B.inflectional morphemes
C.affixes D.roots
4.________ is of critical importance because it allows the grammar to generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length.( )
A.Recursiveness B.Phrase structure
C.Transformation D.Movement
5.Synonyms are classified into several kinds.The words such as start, begin, and commence can be called ________ synonyms.( )
A.dialectal B.stylistic
C.emotive D.collocational
