I. Indicate the following statements true or false. Put T for true and F for false in the brackets.

(　) 1. The Swiss scholar, Ferdinand de Saussure, is the founder of Modern Linguistics.

(　) 2. The relationship between speech sounds and the meanings they present in the language of the world is not arbitrary,

(　) 3. English is stone language.

(　) 4. General linguistics is based on the view that language is a system, which is composed of three aspects: sound, structure and meaning.

(　) 5. Cultural transmission is one of the features of human language.

(　) 6. The focus of traditional linguistics is on synchronic study of language, rather than on diachronic study of language.

(　) 7. The most frequent word orders found in languages of the world are SVO, SOV, and VSO.

(　) 8. A number of divisions of linguistics can be put into two categories: intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary division.

(　) 9. Linguistics attempt to discover the universals of human language.

(　) 10. Language can be used to refer to things real or imagined, past, present or future because it has the feature of interchangeability.

II. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D, and put the letter you choose in the brackets.

1. Morphologically, Chinese is a/an_____language.

A. analytic B. synthetic C. agglutinating D. inflecting

2._____holds that language is a product of evolutionary development.

A. The Yo-he-ho theory B. The Pooh-pooh theory C. The Evolution theory D. The Bow-wow theory

3. Synthetically, English is an example of_____language.

A. The Yo-he-ho theory B. The Pooh-pooh theory C. The Evolution theory D. The Bow-wow theory

4. It is_____function of language, in a sense, that brings the world into our mind.

A. ideational B. interpersonal C. logical D. textual

5. The study of language in general is often termed_____.

A. modern linguistics B. general linguistics C. functional linguistics D. pragmatics

6. The questions of “How is language acquired? How do people learn a foreign language?” are explored in _____.

A. applied linguistics B. sociolinguistics C. psycholinguistics D. general linguistics

7. In modern linguistics_____language is regarded as premier.

A. written B. spoken C. standard D. formal

8. English belongs to _____branch.

A. Latin B. Celtic C. Slavic D. Germanic

9. Natural languages that are used to break the barrier of communication between nations are called _____.

A. Lingua franca B. Esperanto C. official language D. foreign language

10. When linguistics write grammars or lexicographers compile dictionaries they must use _____.

A. natural language B. artificial language C. metalanguage D. mother language

III. Explain the following terms.

1.language

2.linguistics

3.arbitrariness

4.metafunction

IV. Answer the following questions briefly

1.What features does human language have, which can not be found in animal communication system?

2.Why is spoken language given priority to written language in modern linguistics?

3.What are the features of modern linguistics?