词汇学复习资料.doc

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 show __________.
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.