华师大《词汇学》在线作业

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华师《词汇学》在线作业-0004

“die” and “pass away” are synonyms. They differ in ________.
A:connotative meaning
B:emotive meaning
C:stylistic meaning
D:all the above
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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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The first monolingual English dictionary was compiled in（）
A:1604
B:1066
C:1406
D:1046
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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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He’s nice, but he hasn’t much brain. _________.
A:Simile
B:metaphor
C:Metonymy
D:synecdoche
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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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Modern English began with the establishment of （） in England.
A:printing
B:Bourgeois Revolution
C:Industrial Revolution
D:Renaissance Tim
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“child—parent” are （） antonyms.
A:root
B:derivative
C:relative
D:complementary
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________ are contrary terms.
A:dead / alive
B:parent / child
C:single / married
D:like / dislike
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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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The morpheme “-s” in “desks” is ________ morpheme.
A:derivational
B:free
C:inflectional
D:root
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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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Functional words are ________________.
A:adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
B:adjectives, nouns, articles
C:articles, prepositions, conjunctions
D:verbs, pronouns, prepositions
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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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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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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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Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of _________.
A:prefixation
B:suffixation
C:acronymy
D:conversion
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“sow” (to plant seeds on the ground) and “sow” (fully grown female pig )are called ________.
A:Homophones
B:homographs
C:perfect homonyms
D:acronyms
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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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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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“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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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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English words can be motivated______.
A:phonologically
B:morphologically
C:etymologically
D:all the above
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The word “water” is _________ motivated.
A:phonetically
B:semantically
C:morphologically
D:non-
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The most important source of English synonyms is shortening.
A:错误
B:正确
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The characteristics of the ba奥鹏华中师范大学平时在线作业sic word stock include all national character,
denizens and productivity.
A:错误
B:正确
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Hyponymy deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion.
A:错误
B:正确
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Extra-linguistic context refers to factors beyond language.
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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What remains of a word after the removal of all affixes is a stem.
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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The contemporary vocabulary expansion of English is mainly by borrowing and affixation.
A:错误
B:正确
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The way to differentiate homonyms from polysemants is mainly to see their origins as well as sense relatedness.
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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The diachronic approach to polysemy is to find how a word gradually
acquires its meanings in the process of development.
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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Prefixes do not generally change part of speech whereas suffixes do.
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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Content words are numerous and more frequently used than functional words on average.
A:错误
B:正确
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Free morphemes are morphemes which alone can be used as words.
A:错误
B:正确
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In the phrase “the tongues of fire”, the word fire is semantically motivated.
A:错误
B:正确
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Acronyms are words of initial letters, which are pronounced letter by letter.
A:错误
B:正确
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In some pairs of antonyms, the marked terms cover the meaning of the unmarked.
A:错误
B:正确
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Grammatical meaning refers to the part of the word-meaning which
indicates grammatical concepts.
A:错误
B:正确
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Associated transfer involves words used in their figurative sense.
A:错误
B:正确
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Ambiguity is often caused by inadequate context.
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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Concept and sense mean the same and thus are interchangeable.
A:错误
B:正确
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The four major foreign contributors to the development of English
vocabulary are Latin, Greek, French and Scandinavian.
A:错误
B:正确
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