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350301The eagle suddenly （） down and snatched the piece of meat.

350302The teacher told the boys first to （） some water on the floor before mopping it.

350303She told the children about her life on the farm all those years ago, how she （） get up at four every morning to milk the cows.

350304When people looked at him too （）,he felt very uncomfortable.

350305The letter from her sister so （） her that she stayed awake half the night, trying to think of a way to get back at her.

350306South Africa used to be a country where black people and white people were （）.

350307The effect of the officer’s speech was such that the army recovered it’s （） at once.

350308Her （） in wearing that old-fashioned hat surprised her husband.

350309All the streets will be （） tomorrow evening for the celebration.

350310They are now enjoying a short （） at the seashore.

350311“But the piano is out of （）”, she said in a disappointed （）.

350312Beforethe first non-stop flight made in 1949, it（） necessary for all planes to land for refueling.

350313SirDenis, who is 78, has made it known that much of his collection（） to the nation.

350314Ahealthy life is frequently thought to be（） with the open countryside and homegrown food.

350315（）the earth to be flat, many feared that Columbus would fall off the edge of the earth.

350316Afterthe robbery, the shop installed a sophisticated alarm system as insurance（） further bosses.

350317The speaker’s last few words were（）by the audience’s thunderous applause.

350318Thechildren suffer most when their parents（）.

350319Thetroops advanced（）because the area had been mined by the enemy.

350320Herdesk was all （）with old papers, strings, and other odds and ends.

350321Hewas born in a small town（）by about 500 people.

350322Isn’t it（）to live in a city with so many vehicles passing day and night?

350323Itwas in the（）light of the early dawn that I saw a man moving towards me.

350324Thereis a（）between what he says and what he does.

350325Asthe Chinese table-tennis players are the best in the world, it was not（）that they took away most of the cups.

350326Thebaby-sitter kept the kids（）until we got back from the theater.

350327Itsuddenly（）to him that he had worked for twelve hours without eating anything.

350328WouldI be（）if I joined in your discussion?

350329Shemade one last（）to her father for permission to go to the party.

350330Theprofessor looked over our papers with a hasty（）.

350331Filledwith great（）for their integrity and courage, he was determined to be a man like them.

350332Somepeople watch television so much that they cannot（）of living without it.

350333Itwas a（）moment for my cousin when she shook hands with the President.

350334Thewholenation watched the two candidates（）the issue of raising taxes on TV.

350335Hetried to（）the awkward situation with humor.

350336Wehave a sense of working towards a（）goal.

350337Youshould not be（）of different religious beliefs.

350338Studentsof English are required to（）the listed 2,000 words.

350339Asoft background music will（）a delicious meal.

350340Shewas so dear to him that he still kept her picture in a（）position on his desk.

350341Doyou think soil samples are（）from the Mars by an unmanned aircraft ill the near future?

350342Aroundmid-night, she received a（）phone call from someone she did not know of.

350343Theteacher（）the children into several small groups for the trip to the Palace Museum.

350344The（）of a full stop at the end of the sentence is a deliberateact by the writer.

350345Thestudents waited in（）silence for the Nobel Prize winner to make his speech.

350346The little boy’s constant noise（）his father, who was busy writing a paper for a symposium.

350347Thewarrior managed to（）the arrow that came flying through the air.

350348Beforeordering their dinner, they considered the（）merits of chicken and roast beef.

350349Deepat night, they could still hear gun-fire（）in the distance.

350350Doyou think those young people are（）or pragmatic?

350351（） is concerned with the expression of feelings and attitudes of the speaker or writer.

350352（） is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use.

350353（） refers to the emotional association which a word suggests in one’s mind.

350354（） consists of word-class and inflectional paradigm.

350355（） is the central factor in a word describing what it is.

350356What is the rhetoric style illustrated by the idiom “neck and neck”?

350357We can use “come of marriage age” for “come of age”.The kind of usage of the idiom is known as （）.

350358We can use “see too many trees, but not the forest” for “cannot see the wood for the trees”.The kind of usage of the idiom is known as （）.

350359We can use “pull an unhappy face” for “pull a long face”.The kind of usage of the idiom is known as （）.

350360We can use “a silver lining” for “every cloud has a silver lining”.The kind of usage of the idiom is known as （）.

350361When words are involved in the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical items, such that the former is included in the latter, the words belong to the words of （）.

350362（） is the most common cause of homophones.

350363When words are identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning are called （） .

350364When many pairs or groups of words which are different in meaning are pronounced alike or spelled alike, or both, such words belong to the words of （）.

350365When a word has a range of different meanings, it belongs to the words of （）.

350366The word “son” meaning “one’s male child” and the word “sun” meaning “a star that is the basis of the solar system and that sustains life on Earth, being the source of heat and light” are called a pair of （）.

350367The word “base” meaning “the thing or part on which something rests” and the word “base” meaning “having or showing little or no honour, courage or decency” are called a pair of （）.

350368The word “lie” meaning “make a statement that one knows to be untrue” and the word “lie” meaning “put oneself flat on a horizontal surface” are called a pair of （）.

350369The word “lead” meaning “guide or take, esp.by going in front, etc.” and the word “lead” meaning “an easily melted metal of a dull bluish-grey color” are called a pair of （）.

350370The word “tear” meaning “the drop of salty water from the eye” and the word “tear” meaning “to pull sharply apart” are called a pair of （）.

350371Which of the following is not a phase in the development of the English language?

350372The English language from 1500 AD to the present is called （） .

350373The transitional period from Old English to Modern English is known as （）.

350374French brought great changes to the English vocabulary （）.

350375The Renaissance brought great changes to the English vocabulary （）.

350376The word “shrewd” used to mean “evil, bad, wicked”, and now it refers to “clever or sharp in practical affairs”.This is an example of （） of meaning.

350377The word “starve” used to mean “to die”, and now it refers to “to die of hunger”.This is an example of （） of meaning.

350378The word “salary” used to mean “a sum of money given to Roman soldiers to enable them to buy salt”, and now it refers to “fixed payment made by employer at regular intervals to person doing other than manual work”.This is an example of （） of meaning.

350379The word “holiday” used to mean “holy day, a day of religious significance”, and now it refers to “day of recreation, when no work is done”.This is an example of （） of meaning.

350380The word “wife” used to mean “woman”, now it means “married woman esp.in relation to her husband”.The word has undergone a sort of semantic change called （）.

350381A （） is a form which is not further analyzable, either in terms of derivational or inflectional morphology.

350382Any root or stem can be termed as a （）.

350383Which of the following terms refers to the form which remains when all inflectional affixes have been removed?

350384Which of the following terms refers to the form which remains when all derivational affixes have been removed?

350385Which of the following terms refers to the form which remains when all derivational and inflectional affixes have been removed?

350386In the sentence “John was asked to leave after his three-day stay in the town”, “stay” is considered an example of the word-formation process using （）.

350387In the sentence “John decided to nurse his sister himself”, “nurse” is considered an example of the word-formation process using （）.

350388In the sentence “John was asked to get into the office after a two-hour wait”, “wait” is considered an example of the word-formation process using （）.

350389In the sentence “John was doctored by Mr.Smith in the hospital”, “doctor” is considered an example of the word-formation process using （）.

350390In the sentence “John was asked to spy the enemy”, “spy” is considered an example of the word-formation process using （）.

350391Words motivated phonetically are called （） words.

350392From the point of view of （）, a direct connection between the symbol and its sense can be readily observed in a small group of words.

350393Most English words are （） symbols.

350394According to （） , there is not a logical connection between sound and sense.

350395According to （）, there is an intrinsic correspondence between sound and sense.

350396Which of the following forms does not contain an allomorph of the inflectional morpheme of plurality?

350397Which of the following forms is not an allomorph of the morpheme “in-”?

350398The word “decoding” has （） morphemes.

350399The word “nationalize” has （） morphemes.

350400The word “humorousness” has （） morphemes.

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