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《英语词汇学》模拟试卷
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一
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I.
Choose the best answer and then put the letter of
your choice in the given
brackets.
(30%)
1. The minimal meaningful units
in English are known as ______.
A. roots
B.
morphs
C. stems
D. morphemes
(
)
2. The most important of all the
features of the basic word stock is ______.
A. stability
.
B. productivity
C. polysemy
.
D.
all national character
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3. Old English vocabulary
was essentially ______ with a number of borrowings
from
Latin and Scandinavian.
A. Celtic
.
B.
Hellenic
C.
Italic
.
D. Germanic
.
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4. In modern times, ______ is the most
important way of vocabulary expansion.
A. borrowing
B.
backformation
C. creation
D. semantic change
(
)
5. The words
“<
/p>
motel
”
and
“
comsat
”
are
called ______.
A. blends
B. compounds
C. acronyms
D. initialisms
.
(
)
6. The word
“
teac
hers
”
contains three
morphemes, but the word
“
sho
rtenings
”
has
______ morphemes.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D.
five
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)
7. Reference is the
relationship between language and the ______.
A. concept
B. world
C. context
.
D. sense
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)
8.
Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be
illustrated by the example: ______.
A. dorm for
“
dormitory
”
B.
fond for
“
affectionate
”
C. dish for
“
food
”
D. TV for
“
televi
sion
”
(
)
9.
The word
“
mouth
”<
/p>
in the phrase
“
the mouth of a
river
”
is regarded as a
______
motivated word.
A. morphologically
B.
etymologically
C. onomatopoeically
D. semantically
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)
10. Words formed by acronymy can be
divided into initialisms and acronyms
depending on the ______ of the word.
A.
pronunciation
B. spelling
C. function
D. meaning
(
)
11. Frogs croak, but elephants ______.
A.
neigh
B. squeak
C. bleat
.
D.
trumpet
(
)
12. The
antonyms
“
present
”
and
“
absent
”
are ______ terms.
A. relative
B. contrary
C. contradictory
D. graded
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13. The
idiom
“
scream and
shout
”
is a good example of
______.
A.
reiteraton
B. alliteration
C. repetition
D.
juxtaposition
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)
14. Ambiguity
arises due to all the following except ______.
A.
polysemy
B. synonymy
C. homonymy
D. structure
(
)
15. The order of meanings in CCELD
indicates the ______ changes of words.
A. grammatical
B. morphological
C. semantic
D. phonological
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)
II. Complete the following
sentences with the proper words or expressions
given
in the course book. (15%)
1. A word is a minimal free form of a
language that has a given __________________
and meaning and
syntactic function.
2. English has
evolved from a ____________________ language (Old
English) to the
present analytic
language.
3. Affixes attached to the
end of words to indicate grammatical relationships
are
known as ___________________
morphemes.
4. A ________________ is
known as the smallest functioning unit in the
composition
of words.
5. Although
reference is a kind of abstraction, yet with the
help of _______________
it can refer to something specific.
6. The second major language known in
England was the _________________ of the
Roman Legions.
7. Conceptual
meaning is also known as ____________________
meaning.
8. The relationship between
sound and meaning is _________________ and
arbitrary.
9. Hyponymy deals with the
relationship of __________________ inclusion.
10. The same word may have different
___________________ meanings as shown in
“
do, does, did, done,
doing.
”
11.
Synonyms may differ in the ___________________ and
intensity of meaning.
12. The word
“
famous
”
is ___________________, but the word
“<
/p>
notorious
”
is
derogatory.
13.
Characterized by semantic unity and
______________________ stability, idioms
do not allow changes as a rule.
14. Linguistic context can be
subdivided into ____________________ context and
grammatical context.
15. So
far as the language is concerned, LDCE and CCELD
published in Britain are
both
_____________________ dictionaries.
III
．
Decide
whether the following statements are true or false
and then put in the
brackets the letter
“
T
”
if
the statement is true or
“
F
”
if
it is false. (15%)
1. Morphemes are
abstract units, which are realized in speech by
discrete units known
as morphs.
(
)
2. English words may fall
into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary
by use
frequency.
(
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3. Danish,
Icelandic, Flemish and Norwegian are generally
known as Scandinavian
languages.
(
)
4. Nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs and pronouns are thought to be
content words,
which are also known as
notional words.
(
)
5.
The word
“
miniskirt
”
is a semantically motivated word.
(
)
6. There is a reversative
prefix in the word
“
unwrap
”
.
(
)
7.
The words
“
AIDS
”
and
“
UFO
”
are regarded as acronyms.
(
)
8. There is an
inflectional morpheme in the word
“
shorter
”
.
(
)
9.
Homonyms are generally defined as words different
in meaning but identical in
sound and
spelling.
(
)
10. In the idiom
“
chop
and
change”
, alliteration is used.
(
)
11. The word
“
dis
ease
”
originally meant
“
discomfort
”
, but now it means
“
illness
”
, so
it has
undergone degradation of meaning.
.
(
)
12. Context may prove very valuable in
guessing the meanings of new words.
(
)
13. In some idioms, a constituent may
be replaced by a word of the same part of
speech, only resulting in synonymous
idioms.
(
)
14. One of the
unique features of CCELD is language notes.
(
)
15. Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
is a specialized dictionary.
(
)
IV
. .Answer the following
questions. (20%)
1.
What are the characteristics of Old
English?
2.
What are the differences between a root
and a stem?
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