6.Stylistically, back-formed words are largely _____ and some of them have not gained public acceptance. （ ）
A. formal B. adjectives
C. human nouns D. informal
7. Modern English began with the establishment of _____ in English. （ ）
A. printing B. Bourgeois Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution D. the Renaissance
8. Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of _____.（ ）
A. prefixation B. suffixation
C. acronymy D. conversion
9. Dictionaries _____.（ ）
A. are used as reference books
B. contain information, spelling, pronunciation, meaning and usage
C. list words generally arranged in alphabetical order
D. All of the above
10. The dictionaries which belong to desk dictionaries are _____.（ ）
A. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
B. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
C. Webster Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
D. All of the above
11. The word “neck” in the phrase “the neck of the bottle” is related to _____ motivation.（ ）
A. onomatopoeic B. semantic
C. morphological D. etymological
12. Stylistic meaning refers to the features of _____ of words.（ ）
A. formality B. affectiveness
C. appropriateness D. part of speech
13. An idiom differs from a free phrase in that the former is _____ and the latter is not.（ ）
A. structurally changeable B. semantically analysable
C. structurally fixed D. easily understood
14.The relationship between the linguistic sign and a referent is _____.（ ）
A. conventional B. non-conventional
C. concrete D. specific
15. The way to define an antonym is based on _____. （ ）
A. contradiction B. contrariness
C. oppositeness D. relativeness
