¢ñ.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.(30%)
1. At the United States Embassy on May 22nd at 3:30pm, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Global Village of Beijing (GVB) will introduce their production of a 9 part agricultural video series to be broadcast on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) Summer 2002.
The underlined word here is a/an (      ).
 A. verb        B. adjective        C. noun        D. adverb
2. Roget's International Thesaurus is a (      ).
 A. notebook          B. text          C. words book           D. dictionary
3. ¡°-tion¡±, ¡°-ing¡±, and ¡°-s¡± belong to (      ).
 A. affixes          B. suffixes           C. roots          D. stems
4. ¡°Gay¡± is a synonym of (      ).
 A. joyful           B. joy          C. joyless          D. homosexual
5. Of the modes of wordª²meaning changes, (      ) are the most common.
 A. elevation and transfer          B. extension and narrowing
C. degradation and transfer         D. narrowing and degradation
6. Holiday-making is a (      ) motivated word.
 A. semantically           B. etymologically         
 C. onomatopoetically          D. morphologically
7. In the idiom ¡°all ears¡±, (      ) is used.
 A. metaphor          B. synecdoche          C. metonymy          D. euphemism
8. ¡°East/west¡± are (      ) antonyms.
 A. not           B. contradictory          C. contrary           D. relative
9. ¡°Look forward to¡± is an idiom (      ) in nature.
 A. adverbial           B. verb