华中师范大学《词汇学》在线作业

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Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of _________.
A:prefixation
B:suffixation
C:acronymy
D:conversion
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Which of the following is not associative meaning?
A:collocative meaning
B:stylistic meaning
C:affective meaning
D:primary meaning
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There are two main approaches to the study of English words namely（）
A:descriptive and prescriptive
B:synchronic and diachronic
C:spoken and written
D:competence and performance
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Functional words are ________________.
A:adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
B:adjectives, nouns, articles
C:articles, prepositions, conjunctions
D:verbs, pronouns, prepositions
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Narrowing excludes ________.
A:change from material nouns to common nouns
B:change from common nouns to proper nouns
C:words shortened from phrases to retain the meaning of the whole for economy
D:change from specific meanings to general meanings
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Non-basic vocabulary includes（）
A:argot and jargon
B:archaisms and neologisms
C:technical terms
D:all the above
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“child—parent” are （） antonyms.
A:root
B:derivative
C:relative
D:complementary
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Motel is a/an is ________.
A:blend
B:clipped word
C:initialism
D:acronym
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The hyponyms of ‘vegetable’ are（）
A:banana, pear, jam
B:pear, apple, banana
C:cucumber, celery, peas
D:tree, pine, elm
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Conversion is a method of __________.
A:turning words of one part of speech into those of a different part of speech
B:converting words of one meaning into those of a different meaning
C:deriving words by grammatical means
D:changing words in morphological structure
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The first monolingual English dictionary was compiled in（）
A:1604
B:1066
C:1406
D:1046
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The discrete units which realize morphemes are known as ________.
A:allomorphs
B:phonemes
C:morphs
D:lexis
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（） is not a characteristic of basic word stock
A:Colloquialism
B:All national character
C:Stability
D:Polysemy
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“Give somebody an inch and he’ll take a mile” is a _________.
A:sentence idiom
B:proverb
C:clause idiom
D:both A and B
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He’s nice, but he hasn’t much brain. _______奥鹏华中师范大学平时在线作业__.
A:Simile
B:metaphor
C:Metonymy
D:synecdoche
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Modern English began with the establishment of （） in England.
A:printing
B:Bourgeois Revolution
C:Industrial Revolution
D:Renaissance Tim
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Non-basic vocabulary includes（）
A:argot and jargon
B:archaisms and neologisms
C:technical terms
D:all the above
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The derivational process, in which an item is converted to a new word class，without the addition of an affix, is called ____________.
A:compounding
B:back-formation
C:functional shift
D:derivation
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___________ is not a characteristic of basic word stock.
A:Colloquialism
B:All national character
C:Stability
D:Polysemy
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One billion is ________ in British English.
A:1,000,000,000
B:1,000,000,000,000
C:1,000,000
D:1,000,000,000,000,000
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The first people known to inhabit the British Isles were ________. Their languages were dialects of still another branch of the In-do-European Language Family ________.
A:German / Germanic
B:Celts / Celtic
C:Italian / Italic
D:Sweden / Swedish
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（） is a word-formation process by which a word is changed from one word-class into another without the change of form.
A:Blending
B:Affixation
C:ack-formation
D:Conversion
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_________ is a word-formation process by which a word is changed from one word-class into another without the change of form.
A:Blending
B:Affixation
C:Back-formation
D:Conversion
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“The birds sing to welcome the smiling year.” Is an example of ________.
A:euphemism
B:synecdoche
C:metonymy
D:metaphor
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English words can be motivated______.
A:phonologically
B:morphologically
C:etymologically
D:all the above
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The superordinate differs from the subordinate in that the former covers the
concept of the latter.
A:错误
B:正确
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Denizens are words which were borrowed from other languages but later
became assimilated into the English language.
A:错误
B:正确
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Objective meaning shows that the subject (or agent) is the one to be
affected by the action of the verb.
A:错误
B:正确
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Most of the newly created words are associated with the change of life style and society.
A:错误
B:正确
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Aliens are words of the native element.
A:错误
B:正确
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Content words are numerous and more frequently used than functional words on average.
A:错误
B:正确
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Idioms are phrases and short sentences the meanings of which are not easy to infer from the constituents in most cases.
A:错误
B:正确
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Lexical context refers to the words that appear only before the lexical item
in question.
A:错误
B:正确
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Middle English lasted for more than four hundred years.
A:错误
B:正确
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on-basic vocabulary includes terminology, Anglo-Saxon words, argot and neologisms.
A:错误
B:正确
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By origin English is more closely related to German than to French.
A:错误
B:正确
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Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning.
A:错误
B:正确
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Variations of idioms are the idioms whose forms are modified.
A:错误
B:正确
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Inflectional affixes are grammatical markers.
A:错误
B:正确
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Old English refers to the language used between 100 and 450.
A:错误
B:正确
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Meaning is a relatively stable element in a language compared with
spelling.
A:错误
B:正确
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Reference refers to the relationship between the linguistic symbols and the
objective world.
A:错误
B:正确
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Homographs are words identical in form but different in pronunciation.
A:错误
B:正确
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“villain” is an example of degradation.
A:错误
B:正确
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Motivation explains why a particular word of a language has a particular meaning.
A:错误
B:正确
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By origin, English words can be classified as “native words” and “loan words”.
A:错误
B:正确
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Generally speaking, native words have a higher frequency of use than loan
words.
A:错误
B:正确
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The three sources of new words are creation, semantic change and borrowing.
A:错误
B:正确
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The languages (Norwegian, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish) all belong to
Germanic Family except Norwegian.
A:错误
B:正确
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Old English vocabulary is full of endings.
A:错误
B:正确
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