《英语词汇学》模拟试卷（二）
I. Choo the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given
brackets. (30%)
1. The prehistorical Indo-European parent language is thought to be a highly ______
language.
A. advanced B. developed
C. analytic D. inflected ( )
2. The word “prediction” contains no ______.
A. free morpheme B. stem
C. bund morpheme D. root ( )
3. The most important of all features of words of the basic word stock is ______.
A. productivity B. all national character
C. polymy D. collocability ( )
4. The word “port” from “portus” is regarded as a ______.
A. mantic-loan B. neologism
C. translation-loan D. denizen ( )
5. Words created by adding word forming or derivational affixes to stems are called
______.
A. acronyms B. blends
C. derivatives D. compounds ( )
6. The word ______ is regarded as a deverbal noun.
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A. popularity B. persistence
C. productivity D. priestess ( )
7. The word “disunite” contains a ______ prefix.
病毒性疱疹症状 A. reversative B. pejorative
C. negative D. locative ( )
8. Reference refers to the relationship between language and the ______.
A. n B. concept
C. world D. context ( )
9. Transfer as a mode of mantic change can be illustrated by the example: ______.
A. scope for “telescope” B. TV for “television”
C. pur for “money”环保酒店 D. dorm for 张家国“dormitory” ( )
10. The words “same” and “different” are regarded as ______ terms.
A. contradictory B. relative
C. contrary D. graded ( )
11. The word “copperhead断壁残垣读音>烟保质期” was ud to refer to tho northerners who were cretly aiding the South becau of the ______ reason.
A. class B. historical
C. social D. psychological ( )
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 idiom “safe and sound” is an example of ______.
A. reiteration B. repetition
C. alliteration D. juxtaposition ( )
14. The ambiguity of the ntence, “The ball is attractive,” is caud by ______.
A. homonymy B. hyponymy
C. polymy D. synonymy ( )黄鱼面
15. The main body of a dictionary is its ______ of words.
A. notes B. usage
C. spelling D. definitions ( )
II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions given in the cour book. (15%)
1. Bound morphemes include two types: bound root and _________________.
2. In compounds the word stress usually occurs on the _______________ element.
3. A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given _________________
and meaning and syntactic function.
4. All the words in a language make up its __________________.
5. Pronouns and numerals enjoy nation-wide u and stability, but are mantically monomous and have limited ___________________ and collocability.
6. Scottish and Irish belong to the Celtic family, but Danish and German belong to the ___________________ family.
7. According to the ________________ which affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into two subclass: prefixation and suffixation.
8. Although reference is a kind of abstraction, yet with the help of _______________,
it can refer to something specific.
9. The most common types of word-meaning changes are __________________ and narrowing.
10. Of the three types of homonyms, __________________ constitute the largest number and are most common.
