词汇学试卷

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《英语词汇学》课程考试试卷( B卷)

注意：1、本试卷共 4 页； 2、考试时间: 90 分钟

3、姓名、学号必须写在指定地方

1. Outline the following: 11%

Main types of word meaning: (6%)

The formation of neologisms: (5%)

2. Give examples to distinguish between three different types of antonyms:

contraries, complementaries, conversives (give at least three pairs for

each kind): 9%

1)contraries:

__________________,______________________, __________________

2)complementaries:

__________________,____________________, ______________________

3)conversives:

__________________,____________________, ______________________

3. For each of the following AFFIXES, write out its Chinese meaning and

give an example: 10%

1)mis-,错误的,mistake 2)mal- __________

3) pent- _______________ 4) hemi-__________

5)trans- __________, 6) micro-___________,

7)-ish ____________ 8)-wise ___________

9)-ium ____________, 10)-ics ________

11)-(o)logy ________

4. Find out the converted words in the following sentences:10%

1) He emptied out all his pockets onto the table. ( )

2) Don’t dirty your hands. ( )

3) The garage is brick. ( )

4) His speech contains too many ifs and buts. ( )

5. They are running in the final. ( )

6 .I know my friends from the feel of their faces. ( )

7. I cannot picture their personalities by touch. ( )

8.It is all to nothing that they will succeed. ( )

9.The children headed toward school, carrying bags and followed by their

dogs. ( )

10.If you uh-uh again, I will go on with my story. ( )

5. Write out the full names of the following shortenings: 5%

WHO: ______________________,

AI: _____________________

DINKY:_________________________,

CD: ________________________,

NA TO: _________________________

6. Find out the onomatapoeas in the following sentences: 5%

1) Of course there was no market, so I had, ha-ha, to feed them. ( )

2) The project is so hush-hush that even some military agencies working on parts of it don’t know the overall purposes. ( )

3)Did you ever in your life hear anyone rattle on so? ( )

4)The little medal of St Christopher jingle-jangled like a fetish below the windscreen. ( )

5)Out in the darkness there was a plop-plop-plop. She must be throwing small pieces of wood into the river. ( )

7. Point out what kind of figure of speech(euphemism, synecdoche, metonymy, metaphor, oxymoron) are words italicized in the following sentences.5%

1) Time is money. ( )

1)In the night, no one dared to disturb the sound of slience. ( )

2)The kettle is boiling. ( )

3)My grandfather passed away.( )

4)The TV set is out of order. ( )

8. Analyze the following words and say how they are formed(compounding, affixation, clipping, acronyms, blending, back-formation, analogy).10%

1) dinky ( ) 2) plane ( ) 3) brunch ( ) 4) edit ( ) 5) smog ( ) 6)manmade ( )

7)snowscape( ) 8) shorten ( ) 9) drinkethon ( ) 10)photo ( )

9. Translate the following into Chinese: 5%

1). Don’t count chickens before they’re hatched.

_____________________________________________

2).Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

_____________________________________________

3) We never know the water till the well is dry.

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4). Live and learn.

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5). Make hay while the sun shines.

____________________________________________________

10. Give clippings for the following:5%

Refrigerator ( ) gasoline ( ) Influenza ( ) advertisement( ) Microphone ( )

12. Study the following words and their meanings, a) being the original and b) the modern meaning. Give the process that each word has undergone through in terms of Extension, Narrowing, Elevation and Degradation. 10%

1)wife: a) a woman not necessarily married, especially one who is old and

uneducated.b) a married woman ( )