Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. 1). A word is _______ of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. A. a minimal free form B. a smallest meaningful unit C. an element which can not be further analyzed D. a grammatically minimal form 2). Which of the following statements is Not correct? A. A word can be formed by two free morphemes. B. A word can be formed by a free morpheme and a bound morpheme. C. A word can be formed by two bound morphemes. D. A word can be formed by any two affixes. 3). The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always _______________. A. logical B. arbitrary C. inherent D. automatic 4). In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which shows __________. A. the relationship between sound and meaning can not be established. B. there are different logical relations between sound and meaning. C. the relation between sound and meaning is a matter of convention. D. the concepts are not really the same. 5). The pronunciation of a language has changed more ______ than spelling over the years. A. systematically B. arbitrarily C. logically D. rapidly 6). The English alphabet was adopted from _______. A. Anglo-Saxon B. the Romans C. Greek D. Sanskrit 7). Words may fall into ___________. A. the basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary by use frequency B. content words and functional words by notion C. native words and borrowed words by origin D. All of the above 8). Functional words do _______ work of expression in English on average than content words. A. far more B. less C. equal D. similar 9). Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number amounting roughly_________. A. 20,000 to 30,000 B. 50,000 to 60,000 C. 40,000 to 50,000 D. 70,000 to 80,000 10). It is estimated that English borrowings constitute ______of the modern English vocabulary. A. 40 percent B. 50 percent C. 80 percent D. 65 percent