2012级（1）班
Chaper1 The Basic Concepts Of Words and Vocabulary
.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choo the one that would best complete the statement.
1. ______is the most important of all characteristics of the basic word stock.
A.Productivity Stability C.Collocability D.All national character
2. Nonbasic vocabulary includes all of the following except_______ .
A.slang B.Anglo-Saxon words C.logisms
3. According to the origins of the words, English words can be classified into
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A.content words and functional words B.native words and borrowed words
C.basic words and dialectal words D.loan words and dialectal words
4. Borrowings can be divided into________.
A.liens, mantic loans, translationloans, denizens
B.empty words, notional words, form words, content words
C.blends, portmanteau words, acronyms, initializes
D.derivatives, compounds, converted words and clipped words
5. Apart from the characteristics of basic vocabulary, native words have two other features, namely_________.
A.Productivity and utrality in style and high frequency in u
C.collectability and polymy D.formality and arbitrariness
6．The word beaver(meaning“girl”)is_______ .
A.a dialectal word B.argot C.an archaism D.slang
7. AIDS as a nonbasic word is_______ .
鱼子汤 A.jargon B.an archaism C.aneologism D.slang
8.Form words include the following word class except_______ .
A.conjunctions B.auxiliaries C.prepositions D.adjectives
9. Vocabulary can refer to the following except_______ .
A.the total number of the words in alanguage
B.all the words ud in a particular historical period
C.all the words of a given dialect
D.most words a person knows
沁园春雪翻译10.Kimono is a loan word from_______ .
A.German B.French C.Spanish D.Japane
11. _______ form the mainstream of the basic word stock.
A.Anglo-Saxon words B. Frenchwords C.Danish words D.Latin words
12.Black humor is_______ .
A.a translation loan B.a mantic loan C.a denizen D.an alien
13.Pronouns and numerals are mantically_______ and have limited_______ .
A.polymous;u and stability B.monomous;collocability and stability
冬瓜烧肉 C.polymous;u and us;productivity andcollectability
14.Indigestion is_______ .
A.jargon B.inology D.an archaism
朝鲜李氏王朝15.By_______ ,words fall into functional words and content words.
A.u igin D.word formation
16. The symbolic connection between sound and meaning is almost always_______ .
A.motivated B.arbitrary C.logical D.unconventional
17. _______ are loan words that have become assimilated in English.
A.Denizens B.Semantic loans C.Translation loans D.Aliens
18.Smoky, which means “police”,is a(n) _______ word.
A.slang B.argot C.loan D.jargon
19. Wherein which means “in what”is a(n)word. _______
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A.slang B.archaic C.functionalD.dialectal
20.The difference between sound and form due to all the following except _______.
A.more phonemes than letters
B. stabilization of spelling by printing
C.change of spelling by early scribes
D.development of pronunciation
.Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the cour book
1. Lexicology is a branch of linguisticsstudying the origins and_______ of words .
2. A word is a minimal free form of language that has a given sound, meaning and_______ function.
3. In spite of the differences between sound and form,at least_______ percent of the English words fit consistent spelling patterns
4.All the words in language make up its_______ 王风君子于役.
5.The_______ word stock is the foundations of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and form the common core of the language.
6.By沉默什么意思_______ ,begin is a native word.
7. _______ vocabulary include cant,jargon and argot.
8. There is no_______ relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itlf.
9. _______ are the basic units of ntences.
10. Early borrowings are mostly_______ whereas later loan words remain foreign in sound and spelling.
.Decide whether the following statements are true or fal
( )1.A word can be defined in different ways from different points of view.
