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(09-10 ) Assignment 1 I. Multiple choices ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 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. The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always _______________. A. logical ?????B. arbitrary ??????C. inherent ????D. automatic?????????? 3. In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which shows __________. 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?????????? 4. The pronunciation of a language has changed more ______ than spelling over the years. A. systematically B. arbitrarily ? C. logically? D. rapidly???????????????? 5. The English alphabet was adopted from _______. A. Anglo-Saxon ?????B. the Romans? C. Greek????? D. Sanscrit???????????????? 6. Words may fall into ___________. A. the basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary by use frequency B. content words and functional words by notion C. native words and borrowed words by origin. D. All of the above.????????????? 7. Functional words do _______ work of expression in English on average than content words. ?? A. far more???????????? B. less?? C. equal?????????????????????? d. similar??????????????? 8. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number amounting roughly_________. ??A. 20,000 to 30,000????????? B. 50,000 to 60,000 ??C. 40,000 to 50,000? D. 70,000 to 80,000????????????? 9. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute ______of the modern English vocabulary. A. 50 percent???? B. 70 per