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350501Which of the following word contains two morphemes?

350502Which of the following is NOT the synonym of the word die?

350503The word task originally meant money to be paid by people or business to a government for public purposes, but now it refers to work that has to be done.This is an example of（）.

350504The most basic element of meaning is traditionally called（）.

350505Which of the following words has most morphemes?

350506Which of the following is a derivational word?

350507The word girls originally meant young people, and now it refers to young ladies.This is an example of（）.

350508Which of the following words contains one bound morpheme?

350509（）refers to the study of the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.

350510（） is a unit of expression which has universal intuitive recognition by native-speakers, whether it is expressed in spoken or written form.

350511Which of the following words is NOT formed through derivation?

350512Which of the following is NOT one of the major branches of linguistics?

350513（）can be simply defined as the study of meaning.

350514Which of the following is a compound word?

350515Which of the following does NOT contain one morpheme?

350516（）is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.

350517Which term of the following is used for oppositeness of meaning?

350518Which of the following is not one kind of semantic changes?

350519The stem of disagreements is（）.

350520（）is a clipping word.

350521All of the following words are acronyms except（）.

350522Which one of the following words is not open class word?

350523Morpheme that can occur ‘unattached” are called（）morpheme.

350524The functional morphemes include except（）.

350525Tone refers to the use of pitch at（）level.

350526The three –consonant combinations in onset position are as follows except（）.

350527Which of the following syllable is an open syllable?

350528The three variants of the plural form in English are applied in the following fashion except（）.

350529English Phonology is not interested in（）.

350530[i:], [i], [e] are all（）vowels.

350531Which of the following sounds is a voiced bilabial stop?

350532There are（）nasals in English?

350533Which is NOT a Nasal vowel?

350534Which position of the vocal cords can produce voiceless sounds?

350535Which of the following descriptions is not the nature of language?

350536The word “kung-fu” is（）.

350537The word “motherboard” is（）.

350538Which of the following is not a free morpheme?

350539All the following words contain the inflectional affixes except（）.

350540There are（）morphemes in the word “undesirability”.

350541Which of the following is NOT a compound word?

350542What is the minimal unit of meaning?

350543Morphology is the study of（）.

350544（）are not a minimal pair of in English.

350545In English, there is only one glottal.It is（）.

350546/kuku:/ is a bird’s call.The name of such a bird is CUCKOO which is an example of（）.

350547In English –ise and –tion are called（）.

350548/w/, /j/ belong to（）.

350549Classification of vowels is made up of the followings except（）.

350550Which of the following is the rounded vowel?

350551（）is a phonetic unit or segmental.

350552Which of the following ways of classifying English consonants is not in terms of manner of articulation?

350553Which of the following is not Halliday’s view of functions of language?

350554According to the componential analysis, the words “girl” and “woman” differ in the feature of（）.

350555Linguistics gives priority to the spoken language instead of the written language because（）.

350556All human languages are organized on two levels: the sound level—meaningless, the grammatical level—meaningful.This means language has the design feature of（）.

350557（）are two sub-branches of linguistics that study the units at the grammatical level.

350558Which of the following statements about language is not true?

350559Children can speak before they can read or write shows that（）.

350560The distinction between competence and performance is similar to the distinction between（）.

350561Competence refers to（）.

350562（）is regarded as the “father of modern linguistics”?

350563The term（）linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.

350564Which of the following items is not a design feature of human language?

350565Which of the following words is the entire arbitrary one?

350566If the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language use, a branch of linguistic study called（）come into being.

350567conceptual meaning: is the first type of meaning recognized by Leech, which he defined as the logical, cognitive, or denotative content.In other words, it overlaps to a large extent with the notion of reference.But Leech also uses “sense” as a briefer ter

350568sense: In contrast to reference, sense may be defined as the semantic relations between one word and another, or more generally between one linguistic unit and another.It is concerned with the intralinguistic relations.

350569reference: a set of fall-rise patterns affecting the meanings of individual words.

350570antonymy: is the technical name for one of the sense relations between linguistic units, namely the sameness relation.

350571cohesion:refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text.The cohesive devices usually include: conjunction, ellipse, lexical collocation, lexical repetition, reference, substitution, and so on.In the following examp

350572semantics: The study of the rules governing the ways different constituents are combined to form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between elements in sentence structures.

350573blending:is a relatively complex form of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining together the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by only joining the initial parts of the two words.For example, telephone

350574lexical word:refers to those which mainly work for referring to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.Lexical words carry the main content of a language.So lexical words are also known as Content Words.

350575inflection:is the manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of inflectional affixes such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and cases to which they are attached.

350576descriptive:to make an objective and systematic account of the patterns and use of a language or variety.

350577matalanguage:a language used for talking about words and sentences.

350578prescriptive: to make authoritarian statement about the correctness of a particular use of language.

350579diachronic:said of the study of development of language and languages over time.

350580synchronic:said of an approach that studies language at a theoretical “point” in time.

350581syntagmatic relation is a relation between one item and others in a sequence, or between elements which are all present, such as the relation between whether and others in the following sentence: If the weather is nice, we’ll go out.

350582Word formation, in its restricted sense, refers to the process of word variations signaling syntactic relationships.It can be further subclassified into the compositional type (compound) and the derivational type (derivation).

350583[i:], [i], [e] are all back vowels.

350584poetry unit of poetic meter: a basic unit of rhythm in poetry, made up of a fixed combination of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables.

350585Either the dean or the principal （） the meeting.

350586If I （） in the twenty-second century, I （） my vacation in a very different way.

350587Many people favor （） more nuclear power plants.

350588Japan has taken a more independent stand （）.

350589No one imagined that the apparently （） business man was really a criminal.

350590This popular sports car is now being （） at the rate of a thousand a week.

350591You shouldn’t write in the （） since the book belongs to the library.

350592（）the fact that women often make valuable contributions, they have not been able to attain the same social and economic status as men.

350593American women were （） the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

350594It suddenly occurred to Anne that money couldn’t（） all that Bob had suffered in the past five years.

350595He went to a movie （）.

350596Betty got married last week.（） that she would get married so young.

350597One reason why Shakespeare’s Hamlet is such a successful play is that （）.

350598She was so （） in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door.

350599William Pen, the founder of Pennsylvania, （） defended the right of every citizen to freedom of choice in religion.

350600Although the weather was very bad, the buses still ran on （）.

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