[考研类试卷]英语专业语言学(综合)模拟试卷9.doc

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英语专 业语言学（综合）模拟试卷

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一、简答题

1 Paraphrase each of the following sentences in two different ways to show that you

understand the ambiguity involved:

Example; Smoking grass can be nauseating.

a. Putting grass in a pipe and smoking it can make you sick.

b. Fumes from smoldering grass can make you sick.

Terry loves his wife and so do I.

They said she would go yesterday.

(3)The governor is a dirty street fighter.

The design has big squares and circles.

1 Explain the semantic ambiguity of the following sentences by providing two or more

sentences that paraphrase the multiple meanings. Example: She can't bear children can

mean either She can't give birth to children or She can't tolerate children.

2 He waited by the bank.

3 Is he really that kind?

4 We bought her dog biscuits.

5 He saw that gasoline can explode.

6 Fifty soldiers shot three wild foxes.

7 He saw her drawing pencils.

8 Two relations involving word meaning are antonymy and synonymy. Which relation is

illustrated in each of the pairs of words below?

flourish - thriveintelligent - stupid(3)casual - informal

young- olduncle-auntintelligent - able

flog - whipdrunk - sober

9 What connotations or connotative meanings do you think the following nouns have in

English? charity iron mole snow street

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9 Some of the sets of terms below form semantic fields. For each set:

a. acquire, buy, collect, hoard, win, inherit, steal

b. whisper, talk, narrate, report, tell, harangue, scribble, instruct, brief

c. road, path, barn, way, street, freeway, avenue, thoroughfare, interstate, method

d. stench, smell, reek, aroma, bouquet, odoriferous, perfume, fragrance, scent, olfactory

10 Identify the words that do not belong to the same semantic field as the others in the

set.

11 Identify the superordinate term of the remaining semantic field, if there is one(it may

be a word in the set).

12 Determine whether some terms are less marked than others, and justify your claim.

13 Identify which of the following may be considered to have or to be homographs,

homophones, homonyms or polysemy:

sea break line ear prayer mature trace house

14 What are the differences between less marked and more marked terms in the same

semantic field?

14 For each group of words given below, state what semantic feature or features

distinguish between the classes of(a)words and(b)words. If asked, also indicate a

semantic feature shared by both the(a)words and the(b)words.

Example; a. widow, mother, sister, aunt, maid

b. widower, father, brother uncle, valet The(a)and(b)words are

15 a. bachelor, man, son, paperboy, pope, chief b. bull, rooster, drake, ram

The(a)and(b)words are______

The(a)words are______

The(b)words are______

16 a. ask, tell, say, talk, converse

b. shout, whisper, mutter, drawl, holler

The(a)and(b)words are______

The(a)words are______

The(b)words are______

17 a. walk, run, skip, jump, hop, swim

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