历年真题 | 湖南大学837学科英语真题分享（2016-2018年） / 开普饭

2016年

I.Please define the following terms briefly：

1.Linguistic performance

2.Displacement

3.Productivity

4.Competence

5.Language aptitude

II. Describe the following English sounds in terms of place and manner of articulation：

1.[ f ]

2.[ g ]

3.[ d ]

4.[ l ]

5.[ w ]

III. Divide the following words into their separate morphemes by using +：

1.unimpeachable

2.intercollegiate

3.alphabetization

4.proposal

5.mechanist

IV. Are the following utterances Directive (D), or Commissive(C),or Declarative(D)：

1.It’s really kind of you to have thought of me.

2.I will lend you the money.

3.I promise to come.

4.I fire you

5.I appoint you monitor of the class.

V. Please judge the following sentences and see whether the underlined part is a constituent/string or not：

1.The lady got off the bus. Yes/No

2.Jim has washed the dirty shirts and pants. Yes/No

3.The children argued whether bats have wings. Yes/No

4.A man examined his car carefully yesterday . Yes/No

5.The essay he wrote was excellent Yes/No

VI. Identify the semantic relations.between the following pairs of words.

1. truth vs. Fallacy

2 flower vs. Rose

3. bright: shining

bright :intelligent

4.club: a social organization

club: a blunt weapon

5.drunk vs. Sober

VII. The following sentence is of structural ambiguity. Please list the two readings and then draw the tree structures to illustrate the difference.

Mary saw the people with binoculars.

VIII. Please answer the following questions

Please use J.Austin’s Speech Act Theory to analyze the utterance”The box is heavy”.

Section I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

1.By "living in an 'ivory tower", it means that American professors.

A.live in a tower made of ivory

B. live in tower-like ivory

C. live in a tower built on ivory

D. live beyond the reach of real life

2.When the government of the U.S. was established, the doctrine of__ was proposed out of people's concern over religious freedom.

A. "separation of power"

B. "separation of national and state governments"

C. "separation of church and state"

D. "separation of government branches"

3. With the principle of the rule of law, government power is__ limited.

A. a bit B. considerably

C. little D. slightly

4. “The face of the nation is constantly, and often very rapidly, changing.”What does the sentence mean?

A. It means that the composition of the U.S population is constantly, and often very rapidly, changing

B. It means that the appearance of the U.S. is constantly, and often very rapidly, changing.

C. It means that the facade of the U.S. is constantly, and often very rapidly, changing.

D. It means that the surface of the U.S. is constantly, and often very rapidly, changing.

5.The South traditionally refers to the eleven states that left the Union during_

A. World War I

B. World War II

C. the Independence War

D. the Civil War

6. Why was New England less dependent on agriculture and more reliant on trade and inđustry in early America?It was largely .

A. due to its less rainfall and more railways

B. due to its shorter growing season and easier access to water power

C. pleasant

D. unbearable

7. In the UK, only. Parliament has the right to make or unmake laws, and its powers are not limited or constrained by any other authority. This principle of government is known as .

A. representative democracy B. collective responsibility

C. responsible government D. parliamentary sovereignty

8. Which of the following is NOT true about agriculture in the UK?

A. It is highly nationalized

B. It is highly mechanized.

C. It is highly efficient.

D. It is highly subsidized.

9. "Never hit a man when he is down" most likely means:__.

A. never hit a man when he falls down

B. never hit man when he slips down

C. never hit a man when he is beaten down

D. never hit a man when he comes down with an illness