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In modern times,_____brings less than ten percent of modern English vocabulary from other languages.
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Newly-created words or expressions in English vocabulary, such as AIDS and E-mail are called_____.
- A.吃软不吃硬 -open to persuasion, but not to coercion
- B.布衣素食- -coarse clothes and simple fare
- C.打小报告- be a reporter
- D.没词儿 -be suck for an answer
- A.verb + infinitive
- B.verb + object + infinitive
- C.verb + object + past participle
- D.verb + object + clause with wh-
- A.look into
- B.fall flat
- C.get away with
- D.put off
- A.white elephant
- B.flesh and blood
- C.an apple of discord
- D.fly in the ointment
- A.Monolingual dictionaries are written in two languages.
- B.An unabridged dictionary .is an unshortened one.
- C.Linguistic dictionaries aim at defining words and explaining their usages in the language.
- D.Special dictionaries concentrate on a particular area of language or knowledge.
- A.many idioms are grammatically unanalysable
- B.the word order of idioms cannot be inverted or changed
- C.the structure of an idiom is to a large extent unchangeable
- D.the constituents of an idiom cannot be deleted or added to
- A.Hyponymy
- B.Example
- C.Word structure
- D.Definition
- A.polysemy
- B.homonymy
- C.antonymy
- D.grammatical structure
- A.associated transfer
- B.transfer of sensations
- C.transfer between abstract and concrete meanings
- D.transfer between subjective and objective meanings
- A.The union kept plans alive to stage new strikes.
- B.The scientist have added another stage to the rocket
- C.Michael Jackson is a star of the stage, screen, and television.
- D.I believe in the national independence as the first stage of responsible self-government.
- A.busybody: busy person →officious and meddlesome person
- B.naughty: wicked, bad, evil →not behaving properly
- C.notorious: well-known +unfavorably well-known
- D.voyage: Journey →journey by water
- A.extension
- B.narrowing
- C.degradation
- D.Transfer
- A.Perfect homonyms share the sane spelling and pronunciation.
- B.Homonyms mainly come from borrowing changes in sound and spelling, and dialects.
- C.Homonyms are words whose meaning are closely related.
- D.Most homonyms are words that are the same in spelling bu differ in sound and meaning
- A.antonymy
- B.synonymy
- C.homonymy
- D.hyponymy
- A.Easy come, easy go.
- B.More haste, less speed.
- C.Feed a cold and starve a fever
- D.United we stand, divided we fall
- A.famous
- B.determined
- C.notorious
- D.slim
- A.Grammatical
- B.conceptual
- C.associate
- D.affective
- A.Reference
- B.Concept
- C.Sense
- D.Motivation
- A.names of people
- B.names of places
- C.names of books
- D.trade names
- A.a- (asleep)
- B.de- (de-compose)
- C.mal- (mal-practice)
- D.extra- (extra strong)
- A.miscellaneous
- B.number
- C.locative
- D.reversative
- A.likes
- B.hardest
- C.hatred
- D.going
- A.free morphemes
- B.bound morphemes
- C.functional words
- D.grammatical words
- A.free morpheme
- B.bound root
- C.free root
- D.affix
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New words like Mao Jackets, kungfu blank belt come into present-day English vocabulary due to _____.
- A.social, economic and political changes
- B.an upsurge of learning ancient Roman classics
- C.the influence of other cultures and languages
- D.the rapid development of modem science and technology
- A.the Renaissance
- B.the growth of colorization
- C.advances in science and technology
- D.new upsurge of learning ancient Greek classics
- A.geographical
- B.medical
- C.artistic
- D.religious
- A.Polysemy.
- B.Terminology.
- C.Jargon.
- D.Slang
- A.relations
- B.origins
- C.forms
- D.meanings
- A.arbitrary
- B.conventional
- C.symbolic
- D.fixed
