Which of the following does NOT belong to the characteristics of the basic word stock?

A.All national character. 

B. Productivity.

C. Stability. 

D. Terminology.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency.

B.Words may fall into content words and functional words by notion.

C.Words may fall into loan-words and notional words by the degree of assimilation.

D.Words may fall into native words and borrowed words by origin.

Which of the following is NOT true about the description of the relationship between sound and meaning?

A.There is intrinsic relationship between sound and meaning.

B.The symbolic connection of a sound and its meaning is almost always arbitrary.

C.The relationship between sound and meaning is conventional.

D.In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds.

In the Western set,____is the modern language derived from Hellenic.

A.Latin 

B. Greek

C. Russian 

D. Spanish

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the English vocabulary?

A.English is more closely related to German than French.

B.Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

C.Modern English is considered to be an analytic language.

D.In Early Middle English period, English, Latin and Celtic existed side by side.