MCQ Bank
The acronym CAT stands for __________.
- A) Computer Aided Transition
- B) Computer Aided Translation
- C) Computer Abetted Translation
- D) Computer Assisted Translation
Which of the following countries has relatively low language diversity?
- A) Ethiopia
- B) Asia
- C) Europe
- D) Africa
Which of the following concepts is an unequal distribution of rewards between men and women?
- A) Gender stratification
- B) Gender roles
- C) Gender stereotypes
- D) Gender ideology
According to Giddens, individual agency is a _______activity, a social construction.
- A) morphological
- B) phonological
- C) semiotic
- D) syntactic
Gender is___________ constructed; therefore, the boundaries are conceptual rather than physical.
- A) socially
- B) internationally
- C) culturally
- D) linguistically
It is estimated that by the end of the century ____________per cent of the currently spoken languages could be extinct.
- A) 50 to 90
- B) 70 to 110
- C) 30 to 70
- D) 20 to 60
Which of the following meanings is conveyed through design of spaces?
- A) Spatial
- B) Audio
- C) Visual
- D) Gestural
Giddens’s social theory provides us the inextricable link between human agency and___________.
- A) habitus
- B) none of the given options
- C) social institutions
- D) culture
Which of the following multimodal texts includes picture books, text books, graphic novels, comics, and posters?
- A) None of the given options
- B) Digital
- C) Paper-based
- D) Live
Social identities influence our _________actions, they do not determine them.
- A) mental
- B) logical
- C) linguistic
- D) physical
Which of the following multimodal texts includes film, animation, slide shows, e-posters, digital stories, podcasts, and web pages?
- A) Paper-based
- B) Digital
- C) Live
- D) None of the given options
Language usage varies among __________.
- A) none of the given options
- B) embassies
- C) national institutes
- D) social classes
Linguistic structure or behavior can influence or determine ___________ structure
- A) cultural
- B) social
- C) regional
- D) institutional
Which of the following types of competence is made up of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that act to compensate for breakdowns in communication?
- A) Discourse
- B) Strategic
- C) Sociolinguistic
- D) Grammatical
Which of the following covers a number of different types of mental activity, and lies in the province of cognitive psychology?
- A) Memory
- B) Thought
- C) Concept
- D) Inference
In order to speak any language, you have to pay attention to the meanings that are ___________marked in that language.
- A) socially
- B) structurally
- C) culturally
- D) grammatically
Language has a strong relationship with __________.
- A) memory
- B) thought
- C) concept
- D) inference
Competence enables native speaker to recognize _________ sentences.
- A) structured
- B) ambiguous
- C) removed
- D) flawless
Which of the following types of competence is to know how to recognize and repair communication breakdowns?
- A) Strategic
- B) Discourse
- C) Sociolinguistic
- D) Grammatical
According to Chomsky, ‘competence’ is an ideal but not a _______ person who has complete knowledge of language.
- A) real
- B) adapted
- C) proficient
- D) competent