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华中师《英语词汇学》在线作业-0005

( )Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of: ____
A:humour
B:sarcasm
C:ridicule
D:all the above
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( )The Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English._________ of them are still in use today.
A:85%
B:56%
C:72%
D:75%
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( ) He’s nice, but he hasn’t much brain. _________.
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 Time
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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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( )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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( )Grammatical meaning does not include ________.
A:part of speech
B:plural forms of nouns
C:tenses
D:appropriateness
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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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( ) Stylistic meaning may be defined as the feature of ________ of words.
A:formality
B:affectiveness
C:appropriateness
D:part of speech
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( )“chil奥鹏华中师范大学平时在线作业d—parent” are _______ antonyms.
A:root
B:derivative
C:relative
D:complementary
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Compounds are different from free phrases in all the following ways including _______.
A:semantics
B:grammar
C:phonetics
D:lexicology
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Which of the following words are formed through clipping? [ ]
A:Dorm
B:motel
C:Gent
D:Zoo
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Which of the following words are not functional words?
A:often
B:never
C:although
D:desk
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Which of the following is a stylistic feature of idioms?
A:Colloquia
B:Slang
C:Negative
D:Literary
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The word "miniskirt" is not _______.
A:morphologically motivated
B:etymologically motivated
C:semantically motivated
D:none of the above
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In the early period of Middle English,English,____ and ____existed side by side.
A:Celtic and Danish
B:Danish and French
C:French
D:Latin
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Which of the following words are formed through clipping?
A:Dorm
B:motel
C:Gent
D:Zoo
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Rhetorical features are shown in such respects of _______and_______as well as _______.
A:phonetic
B:lexical manipulation
C:idiomatic variation
D:figure of speech
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If two main constituents of an idiom share the same initial sound, it is not called _______.
A:repetition
B:alliteration
C:rhyme
D:none of the above
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The ways of vocabulary development in present-day English is _______.
A:borrowing
B:semantic change
C:creation of new words
D:referring
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“All national character” is the most important of all the five characteristics of the basic word stock.
A:对
B:错
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In the process of “Radiation” the derived meanings of words are not? directly related to the primary meaning.
A:对
B:错
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Linguistic context provides clues for guessing meanings of new words.
A:对
B:错
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Reference refers to the relationship between different languages.
A:对
B:错
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Inflectional morphemes are added to the end of words to show grammatical concepts.
A:对
B:错
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By origin, English words can be classified as “native words” and “loan words”.
A:对
B:错
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The diachronic approach to polysemy is to find how a word gradually???? acquires its meanings in the process of development.
A:对
B:错
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In some pairs of antonyms, the marked terms cover the meaning of the unmarked.
A:对
B:错
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Aliens, semantic loans, translation-loans and denizens are all borrowings.
A:对
B:错
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The minimal free form of a language is a morpheme.
A:对
B:错
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