1. According to Darwin’s view, why had early humans developed musical ability? __

A. charming B. creation
C. communicationD. singing

A. creative B. arbitrary
C. easy D. reflexive

A. ReflexivityB. Displacement
C. Productivity D. Duality

A. cultural transmission B. individual sounds
C. particular combinations D. other creatures








20. All of the following words mean that humans are continually creating new expressions and novel utterances to describe new objects and situations except____________________
A. cultural transmissionB. creativity
C. productivity D. open-ended

21. ______communicate for the exact moment regarding only time and place they are.
A. Humans B. Animals
C. Humans and animals D. Children

22. When others get unintentional information about you; it is_________
A. Reflexivity B. Displacement
C. informative signalsD. Duality

23. All the following words are considered less arbitrary except______ “ g, n , d , o” are example of ______________
A. window B. whirr
c. cuckoo D. crash

24. We refer to _________________when the general pattern in communication is that they are born with a set of specific signals that produced instinctively.
A. animalsB. productivity
C. communication D. humans

25. _____ is the level at which we can produce individual sounds like n, k, d, a ……etc.
A. creative level B. combination level
C. Secondary level D. Physical level

26. The study of how speech sounds are made or articulated is called “______”
A. Phonetics B. Acoustic Phonetics
C. Articulatory Phonetics D. Auditory Phonetics

27 .“ ____” is the only voiceless sound from the following.
A. B B. K
C. M D. G

28. The sounds that are produced by the tongue tip and the upper front teeth are called ___________.
A. DentalsB. Labiodentals
C. Bilabials D. Alveolars





29. For producing only consonant sounds, the __ and other parts of the mouth are used.
A. nose B. tongue
C. fingers D. ears

30. It is the sound ____ that is only produced by Glottals .
A. [f] B. [p]

61. The branch of linguistic “_______” deals with the structure of sentence
A. Phonetics B. Syntax
C. Semantics D. Phonemics

62. ____________ deals with the production, transmission of speech sounds.
A. Phonetics B. Syntax
C. Semantics D. Phonemics

63. _____ deals with the science of designing general and special dictionaries.
A. Phonology B. Lexicography
C. Psycholinguistics D. Syntax

64. The smallest meaningful units of a language is “_________________”.
A. Morpheme B. Phoneme
C. Lexicography D. Allophone

65. “ ______________________” is the science of meaning.
A. Phonetics B. Syntax
C. Semantics D. Phonemics

66. The smallest meaningless units of a language is “_________________”.
A. Morpheme B. Phoneme
C. Lexicography D. Allmorpheme




67. One of the following sentences is true. It is ___________.
A. Morphology is made of syntax and grammar
B. Syntax is made of grammar and morphology
C. Grammar is made of syntax and morphology
D. Grammar is made of syntax and semantics

68. The type of psychological classification of the sentence” They are busy” is___________________.
A. feelings B. information or informative
C. attitude D. opinion

69. The interrogative sentence “ _________________?” expresses manner.
A. Who is your friend B. Where is he from
C. How did Rami do that D. Why was he absent

70. What a clever boy! Is ____________________sentence.
A. a request B. a command
C. an opinion D. an exclamatory

71. The sentence “ Sara was sick” is a/an_____________________ sentence.
A. simple B. compound
C. complex D. opinion

72. The sentence “ Why were they angry? is_________________.
A. an exclamatory sentence B. interrogative and informative
C. An opinion sentence D. informative only

73. “ ______________” is not a type of psychological classification of syntax.
A. Informative sentence B. Interrogative sentence
C. Complex sentence D. Imperative sentence

74. The ___________________sentences don’t exist in English language.
A. nominal B. verbal
C. interrogative D. informative

75. In semantics, the “____________” is the referred-to element in the triangle of meaning.
A. word B. thing
C. phoneme D. meaning






76. “ Love, friendship, faithfulness, neighborhood” is the semantic field of ___.
A. continuous concretes B. abstracts
C. separate concretes D. tangible materials

77. The relation between the words “ cold and hot” is ______________.
A. synonymy B. exclusion
C. antonymy D. exclusion

78. “ September, October, November, December” is an example of __relation.
A. synonymy B. exclusion
C. antonymy D. exclusion

79. The branch of theoretical linguistics “____________” deals with the meanings of words and sentences.
A. Phonetics B. Semantics
C. Syntax D. Morphology

80. All of the following directions of lines of relationships among the triangle of meaning are possible except: _____________________.
A. thing___meaning___word B. meaning___word___ thing
C. meaning____thing___word D. word____meaning____thing

81. The definition “______________________ “ means that we define the word by pointing to it.
A. Demonstrative definition B. Functional definition
C. Inclusive definition D. Rank definition

82. All of the following are distinct elements of triangle of meaning except__.
A. word B. thing
C. phoneme D. meaning

83 . The word “ __________” is a positive affective meaning.
A. crime B. loyalty
C. cruelty D. dishonesty

84. he statement “ what is beautiful for you may be ugly for others” explains _.
A. Relative meaning B. Figurative meaning
C. Literal meaning D. Referential meaning

85. e use the word “ smiling” in the phrase “smiling flower” to express:
A. literal meaning B. Referential meaning
C. Dictionary meaning D. Metaphorical meaning






86. __add to the meaning of the sentence by showing inter-sentential relationships.
A. Intonations B. Word orders
C. Function words D. Suffixes

87. All of the following are factors that affect the grammatical meaning of a sentence except_________________.
A. Intonation B. Word order
C. lexical meaning D. Function words

88. “He has five boys and girls” This sentence may imply all the following meaning except “ He has ________________.
A. has five boys only B. three boys and two girls
C. two boys and three girls D. five boys and some girls

89. The _________ meaning is actualized when the word is used in accordance with its semantic features.
A. connotative meaning B. literal meaning
C. Figurative meaning D. Metaphorical meaning

90. The negative affective meanings include stealing, crime and ________ .
A. friendship B. loyalty
C. cruelty D. mercy

91. We went to a restaurant and sat round a table in the corner. The underlined word “ round” is used as a/an _____________________.
A. noun B. verb
C. adverb D. preposition

92. “ A student can master any language through using it directly with its speakers”. “ master” is used as a/an ________________.
A. Adjective B. noun
C. verb D. auxiliary

93. When a language is “_____________”, we mean that most of its words have more than one meaning.
A. connotative B. polysemous
C. Figurative D. Metaphorical

94. “_____________” is one of the facial features that affects the conversational context. ________ .
A. regret B. loyalty
C. cruelty D. generosity






95. The relationship between the two speakers influences the meanings of what they say to each other. This is called “_________________”.
A. Intonation B. Word order
C. Converser’s roles D. Function words

96. “______________” expressions are those that depend on the external environment such as her, this, today,…etc.
A. Pre-conversational B. Deictic
C. Tone D. Facial

97. All of the following are grammatical classifications of languages except “______________”.
A. Inflectional B. Agglutinating
C. Isolating D. Literal

98. “ _________________” languages are the languages that depend on prefixes and suffixes to change meaning.
A. Inflectional B. Agglutinating
C. Isolating D. Literal

99. An example of inflectional languages is “_____________” language.
A. Mongolian B. Turkish
C. Arabic D. Japanese

100. “______________” languages are the languages in which the words have constant forms.
A. Pre-conversational B. Agglutinating
C. Inflectional D. Isolating

101. The study of how speech sounds are made or articulated is called “ _____”
A. Phonetics B. Acoustic Phonetics
C. Articulatory Phonetics D. Auditory Phonetics

102. ____” is the only voiceless sound from the following.
A. B B. K
C. M D. G

103 . The sounds that are produced by the tongue tip and the upper front teeth are called ___.
A. Dentals B. Labiodentals
C. Bilabials D. Alveolars

104. For producing only consonant sounds, the _ and other parts of the mouth are used.
A. nose B. tongue
C. fingers D. ears




105. It is the sound ____ that is only produced by Glottals .
A. [f] B. [p]
C. [d] D. [ h]

106. All of the following sounds are produced by velars except the sound “ ____”
A. [r] B. [K]
C. [ng] D. [G]

107. The sounds that are produced when blocking the air stream and having air pushed through the very narrow opening causing a type of friction are alled ____.
A. Dentals B. Fricatives
C. Bilabials D. Alveolars

108. The underlined vowel sound in the word “ key” is one of the _________ .
A. long B. front vowels
C. Back vowels D. central vowels

109. Sounds that consist of a combination of two vowel sounds are called ________
A. Diphthongs B. front vowels
C. Back vowels D. central vowels

110. All of the following sounds are diphthongs except the sound “ _________” .
A. [au] B. [ei]
C. [oi] D. [u:]

111. The underlined vowel sound in the word “ _________” is called a schwa.
A. shore B. hat
C. about D. tin

112. “ ______________” is the study which deals with the physical properties of speech as sound waves in a language.
A. Phonetics B. Acoustic Phonetics
C. Articulatory Phonetics D. Auditory Phonetics