联大学堂信阳师范大学英语词汇学网上考试答案
| The change of idiom 'velvet paws' from the original form is ______.( ) |
| A.replacement B.position-shifting C.addition D.shortening |
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| There are ______ major classes of compounds. （ ） |
| A.two B.for C.three D.five |
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| We can work out the meaning of heliocentric and geocentric according to___. （ ） |
| A.morphological strucmre B.relevant details C. grammatical structure D.physical context |
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| When a word with multiple meanings is used in an inadequate context, this word may create ______. （ ） |
| A.semantic motivation B.degradation C.ambiguity D.extension |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of context?（ ） |
| A.Elimination of ambiguity. B.Indication of referents. C.Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning. D.Provision of culture background for inferring word-meaning. |
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| Linguistic context is also known as ______ context.（ ） |
| A.social B.verbal C.lexical D.physical |
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| Which of the following words was used during the American Civil War to refer to those northerners who were secretly aiding the South? ( ) |
| A.Rattlesnake B.Villain C.Informer D.Copperhead |
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| The idiom ―toss and turn rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.（ ） |
| A.alliteration B.metaphor C.metonymy D.metonymy |
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| Affixes attached to other morphemes to create new words are known as _________.（ ） |
| A. inflectional affixes B.derivational affixes C.bound roots D.free morphemes |
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| What causes the ambiguity of the sentence 'I like Mary better than Janet'? （ ） |
| A.Vocabulary B. Situation C.Structure. D.None of the above |
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| The fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is whether ______.（ ） |
| A. they come from the same source B.they are correlated with one central meaning C.they are listed under one headword in a dictionary D.all the above |
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| If one wants to find out the minute difference between shades of meaning, the best source is _________.（ ） |
| A.a thesaurus B. a synonym finder C.an encyclopedia D.an encyclopedic dictionary |
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| Collins COBUILD English Usage (1992), is a(n) ______ dictionary.（ ） |
| A.unabridged B.desk C.specialized D.encyclopedic |
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| What is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages? ( ) |
| A.Suffixation B.Variation C.Allomorph D.Polysemy |
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| Words can be classified according to the following criteria EXCEPT _________.（ ） |
| A.. notion B. use frequency C.foundation D.origin |
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| Fortuitous formerly denoted 'happening by chance', 'accidental' and later took on the meaning 'fortunate' probably by _________ because the two words look similar. |
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| The relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary or_______. |
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| The forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function are _________. |
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| The opposite of semantic elevation in meaning change is called _____. |
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| Vocabulary is the most ________ element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. |
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| Idioms consist of set ________ and short sentences. |
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| Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: ________, semantic change and borrowing. |
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| The chief function of ________ is not to change the word class of the stem, but to change its meaning. |
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| Usage notes of the dictionary explain ______. |
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| Red, scarlet, mauve, violet, lavender, pansy, black, purple, etc, make up the ________field of colours‘ |
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| What are the stylistic features of idioms? |
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| What are the semantic features of compounds? Give an example to illustrate your point. |
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| specialized dictionary |
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| pejoration |
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| idiom |
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| native words |
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| concatenation |
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