《英语词汇学》模拟试卷 (四)
I. Choo the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given
brackets. (30%)
1. In the Western t, Greek is the modern language derived from ______.
A. Celtic B. Germanic
C. Italic D. Hellenic ( )
2. According to the ______ of affixes, we can put them into two groups: inflectional and derivational affixes.
A. positions B. structure
C. pronunciation D. functions ( )
3. There was ______ agreement between sound and form in Old English than in Modern E
nglish.
A. less B. a bit less
C. more D. a bit more ( )
4. Which of the following words is not a functional word?
A. but B. four
C. they D. about ( )
5. The word “contradiction” contains no ______.
A. free morpheme B. stem
C. bund morpheme D. root ( )
6. The words “AIDS” and “NATO” are regarded as ______.
A. blends B. compounds
C. acronyms D. initialisms ( )
7. The word ______ is regarded as a deverbal noun.
A. popularity B. protection
C. productivity D. priestess ( )
8. Lexical meaning and ______ meaning make up the word meaning.
A. grammatical B. mantic
C. associative D. conceptual ( )
9. Becau many words have more than one meaning, ______ is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages.
A. synonymy B. homonymy
C. polymy D. hyponymy ( )
10. The words “same” and “different” are regarded as ______ terms.
A. contradictory B. relative
C. contrary D. graded ( )
11. Pejoration of meaning is the opposite of mantic ______.
A. transfer B. extension
C. narrowing D. elevation ( )
12. The meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure where it occurs, which is called ______ context.
A. lexical B. grammatical
C. linguistic D. non-linguistic ( )
13. The word “lip” in the phra “the lip of a wound” is regarded as a ______ motivated w
ord.
A. mantically B. etymologically
C. morphologically D. onomatopoeically ( )
14. The order of meanings in CCELD indicates the ______ changes of words.
A. phonological B. mantic
C. morphological D. grammatical ( )
15. Linguistic dictionaries usually cover such areas as ______.
A. spelling and pronunciation B. meaning and function
C. usage and etymology D. all the above ( )
II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions given in the cour book. (15%)
1. The basic word stock is the foundation of the vocabulary accumulated over the centuries and forms the common ________________ of the language.
2. The words which were borrowed early in the past and now are well assimilated into the English language are known as ____________________.
3. In the early period of Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient ________________ and Roman classics.
4. Norwegian, __________________, Danish and Swedish are generally known as Scandinavian languages.
5. The plural morpheme has a number of ______________ in different sound context.
6. Affixes added to other morphemes to create new words are called ______________ affixes.
7. The words created by conversion are new only in a _________________ n.
8. The n of an expression is its place in a system of __________________ relationships with other expressions in the language.
9. Perfect homonyms and polymants are fully identical with regard to spelling and __________________.
