Readers can’t find pronunciation or meaning in ______. （      ）

A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese Translation

B. The Encyclopedia Americana

C. Chamber’s Encyclopedic English Dictionary

D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary

The main body for a dictionary is ______ of words. （      ）

A. spellings

B. pronunciations

C. definitions

D. grammar

According to its grammatical functions, idioms can be classified into five groups. The idiom “heart and soul” belongs to ______. （      ）

A. idioms nominal in nature

B. idioms adjectival in nature

C. idioms verbal in nature

D. idioms adverbial in nature

Idioms manifest such rhetorical features as the following except______. （      ）

A. phonetic manipulation  

B. lexical manipulation

C. literary expressions  

D. figures of speech

Without ______, there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.

A. context  

B. semantic unity

C. structural stability  

D. stylistic feature