II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. （1% ×10=10%）

11. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be d_______.

12. If you say door, new, two, senior, zoo, you will notice that the first sounds in all these words are a_______ sounds. The t and s are voiceless, and d, n and z are voiced. Only n is nasal.

13. The word snowfall is a word formed by joining two separate words, i.e. “snow” and “fall.” This newly formed word is generally regarded as a c_______.

14. A c_______ sentence contains two clauses joined by a linking word, such as “and,” “but,” “or.”

15. Pairs of words that exhibit the reversal of a relationship between the two items are called r_______ opposites.

16. All the speech acts that belong to the same category share the same purpose or the same i_______ point, but they differ in their strength or force.

17. The [d] of spindle is developed between an adjacent [n] and [l]. Such a process or change in which successive sounds are separated by an intervening segment is known as e_______.

18. The two （or possibly more） groups use their native languages as a basis for a rudimentary language of few lexical items and “straightforward” grammatical rules. Such a m_______ language is called pidgin.

19. The brain’s neurological specialization for language is called linguistic l_______, which psycholinguists are particularly interested in.

20. Within the framework of C_______ Analysis, second language learning was believed to be a matter of overcoming the differences between L 1 and L2 systems. 

III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version. （2%×10=20%）

21.（      ） The arbitrary nature of language makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.

22.（      ） When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, then the two words are called minimal pairs. Sip and zip are a minimal pair, as are fine and vine, and veal and leaf.

23.（      ） The meaning of a compound is the combination of the meanings of the words in the compound.考試網(wǎng)

24.（      ） The structure that occurs after movement takes place is what we term as surface structure.

25.（      ） The predication analysis of a sentence only applies to statements and interrogative forms.

26.（      ） Speech act theory was proposed by the British philosopher John Austin in the late 1950s.

27.（      ） Derivation covers various processes of word formation by the addition of affixes, such as the creation of adjectives from nouns （professional < profession）, nouns from verbs （computer < compute）, adjectives from verbs （conceivable < conceive）, and verbs from nouns （eulogize < eulogy）.

28.（      ） In Black English, when the verb is negated, the indefinite pronouns something, somebody, and some become the negative indefinites nothing, nobody, and none, such as He don’t know nothing. Such double negation constructions indicate that speakers of Black English are deficient because they use language “illogically.”

29.（      ） The right hemisphere controls voluntary movements of, and responds to signals from, the right side of the body.

30.（      ） Language acquisition is primarily the acquisition of the grammatical system of language.