Ⅰ.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 wordmeaning 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