《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
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B. stem
C. bund morpheme
D. root ( )叛逆的青春
3. The relationship between sound and meaning is ______ and conventional.
A. logical
B. arbitrary
C. objective
D. consistent ( )
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
痰多咳嗽是什么原因C. productivity
D. priestess ( )
7. The word “disunite” contains a ______ prefix.
A. reversative
B. pejorative
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C. negative
D. locative ( )
8. Motivation refers to the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______.
A. spelling
B. sound
C. meaning
D. function ( )
9. Extension of meaning is also known as ______.
A. specialization
B. elevation
C. generalization
D. degradation ( )
10. The words “husband” and “wife” are regarded as ______ terms.
A. relative
B. contradictory
C. contrary
D. graded ( )
11. The word “copperhead” 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.
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A. lexical
B. grammatical
C. linguistic
D. non-linguistic ( )
13. The idiom “heart and soul” is ______ in nature.
A. adjectival
B. verbal
C. adverbial
D. nominal ( )
14. The ambiguity of the ntence, “The ball is attractive,” is caud by ______.
A. homonymy
B. hyponymy
C. polymy
D. synonymy ( )
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. Some differences between sound and meaning were created by the ____________, who made a living by writing for other people.
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. Lexical meaning itlf embraces two components: __________________ meaning and associative meaning.
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.
11. Transfer may also occur between abstract and ________________ meanings.
12. Idioms are generally felt to be __________________ and some are slang and colloquialisms.
13. Synonyms may differ in the ________________ and intensity of meaning.
14. So far as the language is concerned, a Chine-English dictionary is regarded as a __________________ dictionary.
15. Compared with American dictionaries, British dictionaries, especially learner’s dictionaries, include more ____________ information.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or fal and then put in the brackets the letter “T” if the statement is true or “F” if it is fal. (15%)
1. The Germanic tribes were thought to be the first peoples known to inhabit the British Isles. ( )
2. The chief function of prefixes is to change the meanings of stems. ( )
3. There is an inflectional morpheme in the word “internationalist”. ( )
4. The French influence on English vocabulary was one of the significant points of the Middle English period. ( )
5. Inflectional morphemes which are confined to suffixes function as grammatical markers. ( )
6. The words such as NATO, AIDS, BASIC and UFO are acronyms. ( )
7. There are few words which have both the same conceptual meaning and the same stylistic meani
ng. ( ) 8. One of the features of the contradictory terms is that such antonyms are so oppod to each other that they are mutually exclusive. ( ) 9. The same idiom may show stylistic differences when it is assigned different meanings. ( ) 10. The ambiguity of the ntence “The duck is too hot to eat,” is caud by inadequate grammatical context. ( ) 11. Encyclopedic dictionaries have the characteristics of both linguistic dictionaries and encyclopedia. ( ) 12. Such words as “uless” and “bad-mouth” are regarded as morphologically motivated words. ( ) 13. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is generally known as a specialized dictionary. ( )
14. In the idiom “sooner or later”, juxtaposition is ud. ( )
15. Linguistic context may include the whole cultural background. ( ) IV. Answer the following questions. (20%)
1.What is conceptual meaning? What are the characteristics of conceptual meaning?七书
2. What are the four major caus of the difference between sound and form?
3. What is transfer? What are the four main types of transfer?
4. What is the difference between denizens and aliens?
5. What are specialized dictionaries? What are their characteristics?
V. Analyze and comment on the following. (20%)手机如何省电
1. Point out the formation of the following words.
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2.Read the following ntence carefully. If you find anything inappropriate, explain
the reasons and then improve the ntence.
Jackson is a very hard businessman.
