英语词汇学复习题
一． 单项选择
yxd1. It is a general belief that the meaning does not exist in the word itlf, but it rather spreads over the ______ words. ( )
A. next B. following C. function D. neighboring
2. Being phras or ntences, idioms each consist of more than one word, but each is a mantic _______. ( )
A. entity B. unity C. union D. unit
3．_______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themlves. ( )
A. Terminology B. Archaism C. Neologism D. Jargon
4. Which of the following is a pejorative prefix? ( )
A. dis- B. arch- C. mal- D. anti-
5. Words that have emotive values may fall into two categories: _______ or pejorative. ( )
A. denotative B. appreciative C. emotive D. affective
6.Shortening a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called ______. wishing on a star（ ）
A. blending B. clipping
C. acronymy D. back-formation
7. Associative meaning of words compris the following except ______. （ ）
荷兰首都阿姆斯特丹A. connotative meaning B. lexical meaning
C. affective meaning D. collocative meaning
8. What is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages? （ emmanuel）
A. Suffixation. B. Polymy.
C. Allomorph. D. Variation.
9. Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?cd14（ ）
A. Deer. B. Cattle.
C. Sheep. D. Bird.
10. When a word with multiple meanings is ud in an inadequate context, this word may create ______. （ ）
A. mantic motivation B. degradation
C. ambiguity D. extension
11. ________ consists of technical terms ud in particular disciplines and academic areas such medicine, mathematics, music, education, etc. ( )
A. Neologism B. Archaism C. Terminology D. Jargon
12. Styles are normally classified into formal, _______ and informal. ( )
A. medium B. neutral C. middle D. common
13. Back-formation is the method of creating words by removing the suppod _______. ( )
A. suffixes B. morphemes C. inflections D. parts
14. There is no logical relationship between sound and meaning as the connection between them is _____and conventional. ( )
A. arbitrary B. habitual C. subjective D. symbolic
15. Apart from the stylistic feature, idioms manifest apparent rhetorical coloring in such respects as of ______ manipulation, lexical manipulation and figures of speech. ( )
A. grammatical B. structural C. phonetic D. stylistic
16. Without ______, there is no way to determine the very n of the word that the speaker intended to convey.
A. context B. mantic unity
C. structural stability D. stylistic feature
17. Idioms manifest such rhetorical features as the following except______. （ ）
A. phonetic manipulation B. lexical manipulation
C. literary expressions D. figures of speech
18. According to its grammatical functions, idioms can be classified into five groups. The idiom “heart and soul”fr belongs to ______. （ ）
A. idioms nominal in nature B. idioms adjectival in nature
宾语从句时态C. idioms verbal in nature D. idioms adverbial in nature
19. The main body for a dictionary is ______ of words. （芝加哥有哪些大学>西南财经大学自考 ）
A. spellings B. pronunciations
C. definitions D. grammar
20. Readers can’t find pronunciation or meaning in ______. （ ）
A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chine Translation
B. The Encyclopedia Americana
C. Chamber’s Encyclopedic English Dictionary
D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary
二． 填空youiku
1． Words may fall into _______ words and _______ words by origin.
2． Red, orange, yellow, green, white, black, blue, purple, pink, etc., make up the _______ field of ________.
3． The obvious characteristics of the basic word stock are all national character, ________, productivity, polymy and _____________ .
4． Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as ________ morphemes.
