II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. ( 15% )

　　31. The jargon of criminals is generally referred as _____________.

　　32. From the historical overview of the English vocabulary, the language spoken from 1150 to 1500 is called _____________ English.

　　33. The morpheme is the smallest _____________unit in the composition of words.

　　34. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called __________________.

　　35. Unlike conceptual meaning, __________________ meaning is open-ended and indeterminate.

　　36. From the _______________ point of view, polysemy is assumed to be the result of growth and development of the semantic structure of one and same word.

　　37. Changing in word ______________ has never ceased since the language came into being and will continue in the future.

　　38. Based on the ______________________ context, we can determine the meaning of “do the flowers” as “ arrange the flowers”.

　　39. The stylistic features of idioms are ___________________, slang and literary expressions.

　　40. The user-friendly features of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English are its clear grammar codes, ____________________ and language notes.

　　III. Define the following terms. ( 15% )

　　41. free morphemes

　　42. allomorphs

　　43. affixation

　　44. polysemy

　　45. linguistic context

　　IV. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below. ( 20% )

　　46. What is the difference between root and stem?

　　47. What is collocative meaning of a word? Please take “pretty” and “handsome” as an example to illustrate your point.

　　48. By the criterion of grammatical functions, idioms may be classified into five groups. Name the five groups and match the following expressions with them as their examples respectively.

　　“white elephant” “look into” “beyond the pale”

　　“tooth and nail” “Never do things by halves. ”

　　49. What contextual clues do you often use to help you in guessing the meanings of new words?

　　Demonstrate these clues with examples.

　　V. Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. ( 20% )

　　50. Analyze and comment on the following TWO sentences to illustrate the differences between blending and clipping.

　　The program will be telecast simultaneously to nearly 150 cities.

　　It sounds much better in stereo.

　　51. Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font.

　　A: “Why is Sunday the strongest day?”

　　B: “Because all the others are week days. ”

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