1. ________ is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.

A. Phonology

B. Phonetics 语音学

C. Morphology

D. Phonemics

2. Acoustic phoneticians try to describe the ________ properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues.

A. oral

B. mental

C. physical

D. recorded

3. The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ________ sounds.

A. voiceless

B. voiced

C. vowel

D. consonantal

4. [p] is a voiceless bilabial ________.

A. affricate

B. fricative

C. stop

D. liquid

5. ________ aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.

A. Linguistics

B. Phonetics

C. Phonology

D. Articulatory phonetics

6. A ________ is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

A. Phoneme音位

B. phone

C. sound

D. speech

7. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ________ of that phoneme.

A. phones

B. sounds

C. phonemes

D. Allophones语位变体

8. ________ is a typical tone language.

A. English

B. Chinese

C. French

D. American English

9. The study of language as a whole is often called ________ linguistics.

A. particular

B. general

C. ordinary

D. generative

10. Traditional grammar regards the ________ form of language as primary, not the spoken form.

A. oral

B. written

C. writing

D. vocal

11. The description of a language at some point in time is a ________ study.

A. synchronic

B. diachronic

C. historical

D. comparative

12. According to F. de Saussure, ________ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A. parole

B. performance

C. langue

D. Language

13. Language is arbitrary in that there is no logical connection between meanings and ________.

A. words

B. sounds

C. objects

D. ideas

14. Which of the following isn’t the design features of human language?

A. arbitrariness

B. performance

C. duality

D. displacement

15. The core of linguistics excludes ________.

A. semantics

B. morphology

C. phonetics

D. psycholinguistics

参考答案：B C A C C A D B  B D B C B B D