英语2010级英语词汇学练习题(生)

Exercises of English Lexicology: A Coursebook

I. Multiple Choices.(1’×10=10’)

Choose the right answer in each of the following sentences and write on Answer Sheet. There is only one right answer in each question.

1. is the study of the whole history of words.

A. Lexicology

B. Etymology

C. Phonology

D. Morphology

2. are words like pronouns, prepositions, demonstrative, determiners, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and son on.

A. Grammatical words

B. Derivational words

C. Common words

D. Structural words

3. Which is a bound morpheme in following choices?

A. child

B. pot

C. dom

D. bug

4. Which is a free morpheme in following choices?

A. ceive

B. mit

C. em

D. cat

5. refers to the kind of meaning a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use.

A. Conceptual meaning

B. Social meaning

C. Connotative meaning

D. Reflected meaning

6. refers to the situation in which a word has two or more different meanings.

A. Polysemy

B. Homonymy

C. Inflection

D. Derivation

7. The three words right, rite and write are spelt differently but pronounced the same. We call they are .

A. polysemy

B. homograph

C. homophone

D. polygraph

8. English belongs to in its development.

A. Italic

B. Germanic

C. Europe

D. North India

9. English language began from .

A. 43 AD

B. 410 AD

C. 450 AD

D. 10th century

10. in English are all suffixes that occur at the very end of a word.

A. Inflections

B. Derivations

C. Compounds

D. Clippings

11. A(n) does not have a head, and its meaning cannot be literally guessed from its constituent parts.

A. endocentric compound

B. exocentric compound

C. copulative compound

D. appositional compound

12. refers to the process of combining parts of two words to form a third word which contains some of the meaning of each part.

A. Conversion

B. Shortening

C. Blending

D. Compounding

13. Which one is not right in following clippings?

A. deli from deliciousness

B. flu from influenza

C. plan from aeroplane

D. cause from because

14. refers to the notion of inclusion whereby we can say that ‘an X is a kind of Y’.

A. Meronymy

B. Hyponymy

C. Synonym

D. Antonymy

15. refers to the relationship of oppositeness of meaning between words.

A. Meronymy

B. Hyponymy

C. Synonym

D. Antonymy

16. can be seen as a phenomenon of human cognition.

A. Meronymy

B. Hyponymy

C. Metaphor

D. Analory

17. express in few words a truth which relates to everyday experience .

A. Proverbs

B. Idioms

C. Collocations

D. Phrases

18. A dialect that is associated with a particular social group can be termed a .

A. jargon

B. taboo

C. slang

D. sociolect