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1. A word is _______ of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.

A. a minimal free form

B. a smallest meaningful unit

C. an element which can not be further analyzed

D. a grammatically minimal form

2. Which of the following statements is Not correct

A. A word can be formed by two free morphemes

B. A word can be formed by a free morpheme and a bound morpheme

C. A word can be formed by two bound morphemes

D. A word can be formed by any two affixes.

3. The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always

_______________.

A. logical

B. arbitrary

C. inherent

D. automatic

4. In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which shows __________.

A.the relationship between sound and meaning can not be established.

B.there are different logical relations between sound and meaning

C.the relation between sound and meaning is a matter of convention

D.the concepts are not really the same

5. The pronunciation of a language has changed more ______ than spelling over the years.

systematically B. arbitrarily C. logically D. rapidly

1. The Indo-European language family consists of________.

A. all the languages in Europe and India

B. all the languages in India and some languages in Europe.

C. most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India.

D. Some of the languages of Europe and all the languages of the Near East

2. The prehistoric Indo-European parent language is thought to be ______.

A. A highly inflected language.

B. A highly developed language.

C. A very difficult language.

D. A language of leveled endings.

3. The Eastern set of Indo-European language family includes such languages as

_____.

A. Polish, Welsh and Hindi

B. English, French and Russian

C. German, Persian and Irish

D. Armenian, Albanian and Bulgarian

4. The Germanic family consists of the four European languages: __________.

A. Slovenian, Czech, Romany and Italic

B. Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish

C. Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Breton

D. Portuguese, Italian, English and German

5. _________ only made a small contribution to the English vocabulary.

A. Latin

B. Celtic

C. Danish

D. Spanish

6. The first peoples known to inhabit what is now England are ________.

A. Anglo-Saxons

B. French speaking Normans

C. Celts

D. Jutes

7. English is more closely related to ____________.

A. German than French.

B. French than German

C. Welsh than German

D. Irish than Dutch

8. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is the creation of new words by means of _______.

A. translation-loans

B. semantic loans

C. word formation

D. borrowings

9. Old English vocabulary was in essence ________ with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.

A. Celtic

B. Germanic

C. Roman

D. Irish

10. English has evolved from ___________.

A. an analytic language to a synthetic language

B. a Celtic language to a British language

C. analytic language to a less inflectional language

D. a synthetic language to an analytic language

1. The relationship between the word-form and meaning is ____. Most words can be said to be___.

A. prescriptive, motivated

B. prescriptive, non-motivated

C. arbitrary, motivated

D. arbitrary, non-motivated

of the following is incorrect

A. “airmail” means “mail by air”

B. “reading-lamp” means “lamp for reading”

C. “green horn” is the horn green in color

D. “hopeless” is “without hope”

3. ____ explains the connection between the literal sense and triturative sense of the word.

A. Etymological motivation

B. Onomatopoetic motivation

C. Morphological motivation

D. Semantic motivation

4. Now people use “pen” for any writing tool though it originally denotes “feature”. This phenomenon can be explained by____ .

A. etymological motivation

B. onomatopoetic motivation

C. morphological motivation

D. semantic motivation

is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of word-meaning.

A. Grammatical meaning

B. Denotative meaning

C. Associative meaning

D. Connotative meaning

6. When readers come across the word “home” in reading, they may be reminded of their family, friends, warmth, safety, love. That is because of the “home” has

______.

A. collocations

B. connotations

C. denotations

D. perorations

7. “Domicile, residence, abode, home” are almost the same in conceptual meaning, but differ mainly in___.