Chapter 1
一、The term 'vocabulary' is ud in different ns. Match the examples with the definition of vocabulary.地铁盾构机 |
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二、There is plenty of slang in the following dialogue. Read the dialogue and e if you identify and understand.
Person A: What's up man?
Person B: Not much dude.
A: How is it going?
B: I'm alright. I am good.
A: What's going on?
B: I am feeling down.
A: Why?
B: My girlfriend dumped me. She said that we don't mesh well together.
A: I am so sorry. I feel for you man.
B: It sucks. It's so horrible. I don't want to live without her.
A: There are plenty of other fish in the a. You can't lo hope over a single chick.葡萄的种类
B: I guess you got a point. It's tough though, and it's hard to move on.
A: You'll be good. No worries. Live life and have fun.
B: I can do that. Thank you so much for being there. You're the man.
A: I do what I can, lol.
三、Here are some of the slang expressions with their explanations
man: a term of familiar address to a man or a woman: Hey, man, take it easy.
dude: a man, a fellow
down: depresd
dump: to end one’s relationship with someone
mesh: to match, coordinate, or interlock
suck：to be disgustingly disagreeable or offensive
feel for: to feel sympathy for or compassion toward; empathize with: I know you're disappointed and upt,
and I feel for you.
fish: person
chick: Often Offensive. a girl or young woman.
lol: laughing out loud
四、Which of the following words are content words and which are function words? Put them in the correct category. |
结婚拜堂仪式主持词denote | and | notion | Seven | have | never | sun | upon | Christmas | would | the | clear | belong | Am | are | did | in | cloud | Along | slowly | | | | | | |
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五、Read the following excerpt from George W. Bush’s Farewell Address in 2009 and underline the functional words ud in it.忘开头的四字成语
Like all who have held this office before me, I have experienced tbacks. There are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed the conscience and done what I thought was right. You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions.
六、Guess whether the following statements are true or fal.
1. Native words are words brought to Britain in the fifth century by the Germanic tribes: the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes.
2. Native words are known as Anglo-Saxon words.
3. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number.
4. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin form the mainstream of the basic word stock and stand at the core of the language. 5. What is true of the basic word stock is also true of native words.
6. The number of functional words is overgrowing.
7. Every morpheme has its variants.
七、Put the following borrowed words into the correct category. |
Pioneer | Ketchup | Kowtow | Black humour | Dream | port | cup | 陈先奎 Masterpiece | Fresh | Change | Decor | Gospel | Dumb | Kimono | Intermezzo | pork | | | | |
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Denizens: pork port change cup Aliens: Kowtow Kimono Intermezzo Ketchup Decor Translation-loans: Masterpiece Black humour Semantic-loans: Dream Fresh Pioneer Dumb |
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八、Explain the relationship between sound and meaning with examples.
九、Divide the following words into their constituent morphemes:
inaccessibility, unevenly, friendliness, overas, minimalist, occurrences, assumption, retell, ex-wife, misleading, multimedia, automobile, microcomputer, vice-chairman, miconductor, underdeveloped, telescope, maltreat, anti-government, forehead, illegal, disobey, unfair, prepaid, de-emphasis, readiness, discouraging, kind-hearted, undoubtedly, stockrooms, prepackaged
十、Judge how many morphemes the following words have:
unrespectable, recollection, irresponsibility, internationalists, impossibility, unpredictable
十一、Write the following words with hyphens between their morphemes.
quickly downstairs fourth poisonous weaken worldwide
internationally inject protrude
十二、Try to find out how many allomorphs does "–ed" has? Illustrate your answer with examples.
