اسئلة و اجوبة الامتحان التنافسي اللغة الانكليزية-
امتحان التنافسي الدراسات العليا الماجستير
By: Hussein Kareem
1. The organization of language into two layers is
known as …….
a. patterning b. duality c. structure d. productivity
2. In America, linguistics began as an off shoot of
……….
a. sociology b. anthropology c. psychology
3. Persons who have problems with comprehension are
said to suffer from what is called …………
a. broca's aphasia b.
wernick's aphasia c. conduction aphasia
4. The comprehension of languages in order to find
dissimilarities is known as…..
a. comparative linguistics
b. contrastive linguistics
c. applied linguistics.
5. ………seeks to describe and find the differences and
similarities between a pair of languages.
a. comparative linguistics
b. contrastive linguistics
c. applied linguistics.
6. The tea is very hot, you will have to ………..it.
a. drink b. swallow c. gulp d. sip
7. I think you had better ……….and see next week.
a. come b. came c. be coming d. to come.
8. In the last two week, a record number of cars …………..
a. have been sold b. have sold c. had sold
d. had been sold.
9. He was bitten by a mosquito, but he made thing worse
by ……….. the bite all the time.
a. stroking b. scratching c. robbing d. scrapping
10. Not only ……….the film, but he had read the book as
well.
a. he did see b. had he seen c. has he seen d. he saw
11. I know nothing about TV, so when mine broke down, I
took it to the shop to ……..….
a. have had it repaired b. have repaired it c. have it repaired
12. I'm very ……….. in the information about your
family.
a. concerned b. interested c. interesting d. bored
13. I try to keep ………….. the last fashion by going to a
lot of show in New York.
a. a long-time b. up with c. up to d. next to
14. You …….. pay for this information, it is free.
a. musn't b. don't have to c. shouldn't d.
ought to
15. People who live in cities ………... to suffer from
stress more than people in the countryside.
a. attempt b.
use c. learn d. develop
16. What is the participant's role of "the
wind" in the "The wind opened the door"?
a. actor b.
subject c. agent d. instrument
17. The sentence "Did you hear that noise?"
the semantic role of the
"that noise" is ……………
a. theme b. experiencer c. instrument
18. A speech act is …………..
a. referred to by the utterance
b. performed in using the language
c. performed doing with uttering words
d. which is presupposed by an utterance
19. In the process of child language acquisition,
children produce only content words and miss function words at ………. stage.
a. telegraphic b. holophrastic c. two
words babbling
20. An infant born of French parents brought up since
birth by English speakers in Britain will ………… start speaking English.
a. possibly b. inevitably c. voluntary d.
occasionally
21. All deictic expressions are seen to have been
acquired to be interpreted in terms of what ……………the speaker has already in
his/ her mind.
a. time b.
place c. person d. a, b and c (all above).
22. Which one of the following pair is treated as a
minimal pairs?
a. faint- fake b. lose- lost c. mad- mat d. strong-
strange
23. The supra-segmental feature which describes the
relative pitch at which a syllable is produced is called ------------------
a. tone b. stress c. length d. juncture
24. The ……….. is used to convey rather strong feeling
of approval, disapproval or surprise.
a. fall b.
rise c. fall- rise d. rise- fall
25. Which one of the items below is not studied within
sociolinguistics?
a. dialectology b. intelligence c. conversation d.
bilingualism
26. Sociolinguistics views gender as …………factor.
a. biological b.
linguistic c. social d. grammatical
27. Discourse analysis deals with ………….
a. oral discourse b. written texts c. both d. none
of them
28. ……….. is the need to be independent and free from
imposition of others.
a. positive face b. negative face c. face-saving act
29. Which of the following is the study of languages as
spoken/written in samples of real text, rather than of grammar rules?
a. Syntax b. Corpus linguistics c. Postulate linguistics
30. ……… is the attempt made by participants in a
conversation to make good manner in interaction.
a. adjacency b. pair c. politeness d. repair.
31. When two or more different written forms have the
same pronunciation, they are described as ………..
a. homophones b. homonyms c. hyponyms.
32. ………. enables the learner to know when to say
"can you pass the salt" versus "pass the salt".
a. grammatical competence
b. sociolinguistics competence
c. strategic competence
33. In the following short exchange, the mechnic's
answer is said to be interpreted in terms of …………..
- Motorist: My car needs a new exhaust system.
- Mechanic: I'll be busy with this other car all day.
a. implicature b. speech event c. deixis
34. Polysystemicism is a term used to identify an
approach to linguistic analysis proposed by …………in which different linguistic
systems are set at different places in structure.
a. Firth b. Hymes c. Fries.
35. ………..is a particularly common in English because
the basic form of nouns and verbs is identical in many cases.
a. backformation b. conversion c. compounding.
36. In her attempt to acquire his/her L1, the child is
said to be passing through the ………..stage when he/she begins to produce a
variety of recognizable single unit utterances.
a. telegraphic b. holophrastic c. babbling
37. Which of the following is another name for
historical linguistics?
a. Diachronic linguistics
b. Paleonguistics
c. Histolinguism
38. Jack had a cake. I had one too. In this sentence
"one" ………… to the "cake" in the first sentence.
a. has an anaphoric relation
b. is semantically identical
c. has deictic relation
d. is syntactically identical
39. The type of knowledge existing in memory to be
activated in due time is referred as ………..
a. schemata
b. comparative principle
c. conversational interaction
d. implicature
40. Those who speak ambiguously violate the maxim
of…………
a. manner b. quality c.
relevance d. quantity.
41. The word "mouth" in " Mouth of the
river" and "Ali's mouth" would constitute an instant of …………
a. homophony b. homonymy c. hyponymy d. polysemy
42. A variety of language which grew for such practical
purposes has trading among people who did not speak the same language is
called……….
a. creole b.
diglossia c. jargon d. pidgin
43. In very recognized profession a special technical
vocabulary evolves which is known as …………..
a. jargon b. pidgin c. dialect d.
style
44. The semantic relation holds between
"rose-flower" represents…………
a. antonymy b. hyponymy c. synonymy d. homonymy
45. Vowels are ………...
a. voiced sounds b. voiceless sounds c. none of above.
46. The soft palate is responsible for …………..
a. producing voiced sounds
b. producing voiceless sounds
c. controlling air stream direction.
47. "Head" refers to that part of the
tonic unit which is represented by ………….
a. all unstressed syllable before the tonic syllable
b. only stressed syllable before the tonic syllable
c. from the first stressed syllable until the tonic
syllable
48. A syllable having termination involves …………..
a. a constant(s) plus a vowel
b. a vowel plus a consonant(s)
c. none of the above
d. consonant
49. The word "eight" involves ……….
a. triphthong b. closing diphthong c. centering diphthong
50. "propmts" has ………….
a. one post-final consonant
b. two post-final consonants
c. three post-final consonants
51. Ethnography of communication refers to studying
language and society with……………..
a. social objectives only
b. linguistic objectives only
c. social and linguistic objectives.
52. pragmatics studies …………………
a. dictionary meaning
b.
contextual meaning c. formal
meaning
53. Semantics deals with ……………..
a. conceptual meaning b. contextual meaning c.
formal meaning
54. ……..is a property of human language by which humans
can refer to past and future time.
a. arbitrariness b. displacement c. duality
55. Arbitrariness means……………
a. there is no natural connection between a linguistic
form and its meaning.
b. creating new expressions to describe new objects and
situations.
c. acquiring a language in a culture with other
speakers
56. Those who speak ambiguously violate the maxim
of…………
a. manner b. quality c. relevance d.
quantity.
57. …….. is an interdisciplinary field which
investigates and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.
a. corpus linguistics b. applied linguistics c. forensic linguistics
58. ………..is a general term for a pre-existing knowledge
structure in memory.
a. implicature b. script c. schema
59. The semantic relation between "bat"
(flying creature) and "bat" (used in sports) is ………….
a. homonyms b. homophone c.
polysemy
60. The subconscious grasp of the rule-based system of
a language is called…….
a. linguistic competence
b. linguistic performance
c. universalism
61. In the sentence "I may be mistaken, but I saw
a wedding ring on her ginger", the speaker seems to be careful about the
maxim of………….
a. quality b. quantity c. manner
62. The words "wasp" and "waps" are
examples of ………..
a. epenthesis b. metathesis c.
prosthesis
63. "Nuha is wearing Calvin Klein" can be
interpreted in terms of …………
a. reference b. inference c. anaphora
64. The average age at which children begin to produce
a large number of utterances that can be classified as
"multiple-word" speech is …………
a. 12 months
b. 18 months c. 2 years
65. …………is a term used to describe the creative
capacity of language to invent new words and sentences.
a. duality b.
productivity c.
proxemics
66. In some culture, a change in social situation is
marked by a change in the actual spoken language, a phenomenon known as…………..
a. register b. dialect c. code-switching
67. ……….is a language whose existence has been
established through the process of linguistic reconstruction.
a. proto-language b. pidgin c. lingua- franca
68. Human linguistic communication is justifiably
expected to occur in the absence of …….
a. vocal organs b. writing skills c. sign language d. all of above.
69. …….. is a language that is used to make
communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native
language.
a. lingua franca b. jargon c. creole
70. English users are documented to avoid multiplating
a consonant cluster such as of ……………a common permissible sound sequence in
their speech.
a. /bl/ b.
/kl/ c./ pl/ d. /vl/
71. The creation of totally new terms via …………..is set
to serve of the least processes of word formation in English.
a. coinage b. clipping c. conversion d. compounding
72. A generative grammar is expected to potentially
produce……….the grammar sentence in a language.
a. only b.
all c. both a and b d. none
73. Semantics documented to have been specified
focusing on what words…….. mean.
a. functionally
b. conceptually
c. stylistically
d. connotatively
74. Two or more different forms sharing the same
………….are semantically identified to serve as homophones.
a. spelling b. pronunciation c.
intonation d. meaning
75. Collocation as a distinct aspect of native
speaker's knowledge of words is seen to have been linguistically based on ………….
a. semantic role
b. component feature
c. categories of meaning
d. frequency of occurrence
76. Politeness is specified to final attending to ideas
like that of being……….to some other people.
a. modest b. reluctant c. considerate d. tactful
77. Which of the following is another name for
historical linguistics?
a. Diachronic linguistics
b. Paleonguistics
c. Histolinguism
78. With regard to the process of word formation
"math" is an example of……….
a. clipping b. acronyms c.
blending d. back-formation
79. The "ed" in booked is realized as a
…………morpheme
a. free b. inflectional c. derivational
80. Which of the following is NOT an area that
cognitive linguistics focuses on?
a. Autonomous linguistic faculty
b. Word evolution over time
c. Language use
81. --------------- is a semantic relation that deals
with the relationship between linguistic items and non-linguistic world of
experience.
a. co-text b.
sense c. reference d. collocation e. antonymy
82. "A" logically------------ "B"
iff "B" follows from "A".
a. relates to b. entails c. restricts d. results from e. causes
83.------------is the meaning that comes about when
actually used in a concrete context.
a. Utterance meaning
b. Sentence meaning
c. Expressive meaning
d. Social meaning
e. Descriptive meaning
84. The meaning of a linguistic item is derived
from-----------
a. its relation to the outside world
b. its relation to other items in the sentence
c. both the above alternatives
d. none of the above alternatives
85. --------------is a composite unit which permits the
substitutability of its items for at least one of its constituent elements.
a. Collocation b. Connotation c. Denotation
d. Declaration e. Contextualization
86. The basic unit in any pragmatic analysis
is-------------
a. the morpheme b. the utterance c. the lexeme
d. the pragmeme e. none of these alternatives
87. There are ----------- types of deixis
a. two b
four c. five d. three e. nine
88. The term "pragmatics" was used for the
first time by -------
a. John Austim b. John Searle d. Charles Morris e. Paul Grice
89. John Searle suggested that Speech Act verbs can be
viewed through---------
a. five classes b. seven classes c. four classes
d. six classes e. eleven classes
90. Pragmatics---------------
a. is a level of linguistics
b. is included in a level of linguistics
c. includes all the levels of linguistics
e. all the above mentioned
91. We can add small marks to phonetic symbols to
provide more information about them. These marks are called……
a. hyphens b. alphabets c. letters d. diacritics
92. Which of the following is an obligatory constituent
of the syllable?
a. onset b.
coda b. nucleus d. rhyme
93. When a word-initial consonant causes a change in a
final consonant at the end of the word that precedes it, the assimilation is
called………..
a. regressive b. complete c. progressive d. mutual
94. In weak syllables some consonants may come as
nuclei of these syllables; consonants are called -----------------
a. geminate consonants b. syllabic consonants
d. coda consonants c.
approximants
95. The short breath that follows the release of
voiceless stops when followed by called------------
a. glottalization
b. assimilation d. aspiration c. metathesis
96. In----------------a consonant may be found in some
word positions but not in others.
a. complementary distribution b. free distribution
c. defective distribution d. variable distribution
97. Implicature is a term that refers to
---------------
a. what a speaker can imply or suggest
b. what a speaker literally says
c. what a speaker writes
98. Discourse analysis is defined as -----------
a. the study of the arrangement of words
b. the study of how the words are pronounced
c. the study of language in use and the language beyond
the level of sentence.
99. The utterance
A: Will you see your boss?
B: He has a meeting
C: OK
has meaningful connection as far as----------
a. cohesion is concerned
b. coherence is concerned
c. syntax is concerned
100. In "I may be mistaken, but I think I saw him
in the mall" the speaker is careful about-----------
a. Quantity Maxim
b. Manner Maxim
c. Quality Maxim
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