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I． Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative
answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement
and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)
1. Words can be classified into the basic word stock and
nonbasic vocabulary by ______.
( )
A. use frequency B. notion
C. origin D. grammar
2. In formal use, “pot” means “cooking utensil”. Whereas, when
it means “marijuana”, it is a ______. ( )
A. jargon B. terminology
C. slang D. argot
3. Translation-loans are words and expressions formed from the
existing material in the English language but modelled on the
patterns taken from another language. For example, the English
expression “long time no see” is from ______. ( )
A. Latin B. Chinese
C. Greek D. French
4. The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European
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Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which
are generally known as ______ languages. ( )
A. Hellenic B. Albanian
C. CelticD. Scandinavian
5. Which of the following is NOT the main source of new words?
( )
A. The rapid development of modern science and technology.
B. Social, economic and political changes.
C. Environmental protection.
D. The influence of other cultures and languages.
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( )
A. In modern times，borrowing brings less than ten percent of
modern English vocabulary.
B. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small
quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.
C. The most important mode of vocabulary development in
present-day English is creation of new words by means of
word-formation.
D. In early Middle English period，English，Latin，and Celtic
existed side by side.
7. There are ______ free morphemic words in the following
words：worker, car, impossible，anger, politely. ( )
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A. 2 B. 3
C. 4 D. 5
8. There is/are ______ stem(s)in the word“internationalists” ( )
A 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4
9. The past tense marker“-ed”is pronounced as/t/in the
following words EXCEPT ______.( )
A. enabled B. worked
C. jumped D. helped
10. The most productive ways of word-formation in modern
English are the following EXCEPT ______.( )
A. affixation B. compounding
C. conversion D. blending
11. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is
called ______. ( )
A. clipping B. compounding
C. acronymy D. back-formation
12. The word “pop” belongs to ______ clipping. ( )
A. front B. back
C. front and back D. phrase
13. The ______ meaning of words usually shows the attitude of
approval of the speaker. ( )
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A. affective B. appreciative
C. pejorative D. connotative
14. Which of the following is NOT one of the associative
meaning of a word? ( )
A. Grammatical meaning. B. Stylistic meaning.
C. Collocative meaning.D. Connotative meaning.
15. ______ motivation explains the connection between the
literal sense and figurative sense of the word.( )
A. Morphological B. Onomatopoeic
C. Semantic D. Etymological
16. Antonyms are classified on the basis of ______ opposition.
( )
A. semantic B. euphemistic
C. idiomatic D. grammatical
17. Lion，elephant，tiger, turtle，sheep and snake are ______ of
animal. ( )
A. hyponyms B. synonyms
C. collocation D. denomination
18. As far as denotation is concerned，relative synonyms may
differ ______.( )
A. in the diachronic approach B. in the stylistic and emotive
colouring of words
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C. in usage in simple terms D. in the range and intensity of
meaning
19. Borrowing has caused word-meaning changes，as indicated
in“______ formerly meant animal，and later animal from Latin
and beast from French found their way into English ______.”( )
A. deer B. cattle
C. sheep D. bird
20. There are generally two major factors that cause changes in
meaning，extra-linguistic factors and ______ factors within the
language system. ( )
A. functional B. external
C. meaningful D. internal
21. ______ is a process by which a word of wider meaning
acquires a specialized sense. For example，the original meaning
of the word“meat” was food and the modern meaning is edible
flesh. ( )
A. Conversion B. Elevating
C. Narrowing D. Formation
22. Which of the following is NOT a context clue? ( )
A. Relevant details. B. Sentence structure.
C. Synonymy.D. Antonymy.
23. The sentence “I like Mary better than John’’ is ambiguous
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