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.

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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.

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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