Productive vocabulary is those words that one is not only able to ______ but also to ______ in speech and writing.

Denotative meaning of a word or a lexical item refers to those words that we use to _______ things as regards real objects. this is usually the _______ meaning of a word and may seem relatively easy to _____.

_______ refer to items that mean the same, or nearly the same.

Which of the following is NOT true about the meaning of words?

A. There may not always be equivalent concepts from one language to another.
B. In Chinese there is no distinction made between the names used to describe one's brother's children and of one's sister's.
C. "Dog" has a connotative meaning often related to friendship and loyalty.
D. In different cultures the same word may have different connotative meanings.

Which of the following statements is probably true about the use of dictionaries?

A. Monolingual dictionaries contain much less information about each word compared to bilingual dictionaries.
B. Students should try to look up every word they do not know when reading.
C. Students should not be guided at the beginning in using a dictionary.
D. Bilingual dictionaries take advantage of the learner's first language by making meaning immediately accessible.

Which of the following does not belong to sense relations among words?

A. antonyms
B. hyponyms
C. collocations
D. receptive vocabulary

Vocabulary teaching and learning must fit into ________.

A. the broader framework of a language course
B. the teaching abilities of teachers
C. the principal's arrangement
D. students' performance

The one unknown word among fifty words is something that can be learned through ________.

A. guessing from context and does not stop comprehension of the text
B. consulting the dictionary
C. asking teachers for help
D. asking classmates for help

Some scholar argues that academic vocabulary needs to be learned both receptively and productively,because being able to produce it is one way of showing that you are part of a particular discourse community.

A. 对
B. 错

It is useful to see vocabulary as also including groups of words, which should be learned as multiword units.

A. 对
B. 错