11. From the sentences “Hand in your papers.” and “She papered the room green.”, we can see such a means of word formation as ______. （ ）
A. affixation B. compounding
C. conversion D. acronymy
12. The word “beg” comes from the word “beggar”. Such a way of creating a new word is called ______. （ ）
A. suffixation B. clipping
C. blending D. back-formation
13. “Pen” and “sword” in the sentence “The pen is mightier than the sword.” are ______ motivated words. （ ）
A. semantically B. etymologically
C. morphologically D. onomatopoeically
14. “Tables, men, potatoes” have the same ______ meaning, for they have the same plural meaning. （ ）
A. lexical B. grammatical
C. conceptual D. associative
15. Stylistic features of words include the following EXCEPT ______. （ ）
A. formal B. literary
C. argumentative D. slang
16. The word ______ is an illustrative example of concatenation. （ ）
A. neck B. board
C. candidate D. harvest
17. Based on the degree of ______, homonyms fall into three classes: perfect homonyms, homographs and homophones. （ ）
A. intensity B. property
C. similarity D. variety
18. Complete synonyms are identical both in grammatical meaning and lexical meaning, including ______ and associative meanings. （ ）
A. conceptual B. perceptual
C. eventual D. actual
19. Narrowing of meaning, also called ______, is the opposite of widening meaning. （ ）
A. specialization B. realization
C. evolution D. creation
20. As far as transfer is concerned, the phrase “loud colours” falls into the category of transfer ______.（ ）
A. from concrete to abstract meanings
B. from abstract to concrete meanings
C. through association
D. of sensations
