exercise1-3
Part One: Multiple Choice
1.A word is ___ of a language that has given sound and meaning and syntactic functions.
A.a smallest form
B.A minimal free form
C.A construction form
D.A separate form
2.In different language, the same concept can be represented by ___ and the same sound can show___.
A.Different sounds/ different meanings
B.Same sounds/different meanings
C.Different sounds/ same meanings
D.Same sounds/ same meanings
3.The internal reason for the difference between sound and form is _____.
A.Stabilization of spelling by printing
B.The fact of more phonemes that letters in English
C.Influence of the work of scribes
D.Innovation made by linguists.
4.The relationship between the sound and form
of a word is ____.
A.Logical
B.Arbitrary, conventional
C.Predictable
D.objective
5. Words may fall into the popular words and learned words by ___.
A.Origin
B.Character
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D.motivation
6. Full words don't include___.
A.adverbs
B.Pronouns
C.Numerals
D.adjectives
7. Cukoo, ping-pong, motherland and blackbird are___.
A.Motivated words
B.Transparent words
C.Both A and B
D.Neither A or B
8.Which of the following is not Scandinavian origin?
A.skirt
B.alter
C.their
D.birth
9.Until 1066, the influence on English was mainly___.
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B.French
C. Germanic
D.Celtic
10. Modern English began in ___.
A.1700
B.1066
C.1500
D.1900
11.Modern English is considered to be a/an ___language.
A.inflected
B.analytic
C.synthetic
D.new
12. Every word that has meaning has ___, but not every word has ___.
A. Referent, sense
B.sense, referent
C.both of them
D.neither of them
13. The grammatical meaning of a word refer to that part of the meaning of the word which indicate grammatical concept or relationship such as___.
A. Part of speech of words.
B. Singular and plural meaning of nouns
C. Tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms
D. All the above
14. Connotative meaning is unstable, varying considerably according to_____.
A. culture
B. Historical period
C. The experience of the individual
D. All the above
15. "Dwelling place" is ___ of "home".
A. The stylistic meaning
B. The connotative meaning
C. The denotative meaning
D. The grammatical meaning
16. Collocation can affect ___.
A. The meaning of words
B. The structure of words
C. The spelling of words
D. The function of words
17. Tulip and rose are ____of flower.
A.Synonyms
B.Antonyms
C.Homonyms
D.hyponyms
18.Which of the following are perfect homonyms?
A.Bear (n)/ Bear (v.)
B.Are (v)/R.
C.Bow (n. )/ Bow (v.)
D.Sow (v.)/Sow (n.)
19.The differences between synonyms boil
down to the three areas: _________.
A.Denotation, connotation and intensity
B.Connotation, intensity and application
C.Denotation, connotation and application
D.Connotation, implication and application
20.Antonyms are often used in proverbs to _____.
A.Form antithesis to achieve emphasis
B.Express ideas easily
C.Form metaphor
D.Express ideas economically
21.The antonyms big and small are _____.
A.Contradictories
B.Contraries
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D.Connected terms
22.From the diachronic point of view, when the word was created, it was endowed with only meaning. The first meaning is called _____.
A.Primary meaning
B.Derived meaning
C.Central meaning
D.Basic meaning
23. Absolute synonyms are ___
A. numerous
B.rare
C.popular
D. common
24. "to kick the bucket" and "to pass away" are relative synonyms which are different in ___.
A. Emotive meaning
B. Range of use
C.stylistic meaning
D. collocation
25. In concatenation, between the latest sense and the original sense, there is ___.
A. Direct connection
B. Semantic connection
C. No direct connection
D. No any connection
Part Two:Answer the following questions.
1.Women are flowers.
Women are tigers.
Study the above sentence. Analyse grammatical meaning of "women", denotative meaning and connotative meaning in each sentence.
2.She is very skinny and beautiful.
Are all the words in the sentence used appropriately? If not, why? Then improve it.
3.Employee and employer
Illustrate which kind of antonymy they belong to and the characteristics of this kind of antonym.
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(1) one of my relatives got a beautiful flower from the well known market not long ago.
(2) the millionaire spent a large sum of money for the picture by the famous artist.