词汇学试题

词汇学测试Quiz 2

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. (90%)

1. Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of ______. ( D )

A. humour

B. sarcasm

C. ridicule

D. all the above

2. Grammatical context refers to ______ in which a word is used. ( C )

A. vocabulary

B. grammar

C. syntactic structure

D. semantic pattern

3. Which of the following words is not formed through clipping? ( B )

A Dorm B. Motel C. Gent D. Zoo

4. _______ is a semantic process in which the primary meaning stands at the center and the secondary meanings proceed out of it in every direction like rays. ( A )

A. Radiation

B. Concatenation

C. Derivation

D. Inflection

5. _____ refer to one of two or more words in the English language whi ch have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning. ( B )

A. Polysemants

B. Synonyms

C. Antonyms

D. Hyponyms

6. The sense relation between the two words “tulip” and “flower”is ___ ___. ( A )

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. polysemy

D. antonymy

7. _________ are words identical only in spelling but different in sound a nd meaning, e.g. bow/bau/; bow/beu/. ( A )

A. Homographs

B. Homophones

C. Perfect homonyms

D. Antonyms

8. The antonyms: male and female are ______. ( A )

A. contraries

B. complementaries

C. conversives

D. derivational antonyms

9. From the diachronic point of view, when the word was created, it wa s endowed with only one meaning . The first meaning is called ______. ( C )

A. central meaning

B. basic meaning

C. primary meaning

D.derived meaning

10. “Happy” and “unhappy” are ____________. ( B )

A. gradable antonyms

B. root antonyms

C. derivational antonyms

D. conversives

11. Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its _____. ( D )

A. form

B. pronunciation

C. spelling

D. meaning

12. The word “______” is an onomatopoetically motivated word. ( A )

A. miaow

B. sword

C. laconic

D. airmail

13. ______, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary i n comparison. ( A )

A. Synchronically

B. Diachronically

C. Etymologically

D. Onomatopoetically

14. Based on ______ context, we can arrive at the meaning of “do a su m”. ( D )

A. grammatical

B. lexical

C. cultural

D. non-linguistic

15. ______ meaning refers to that part of the meaning of the word whic

h indicates grammatical concept or relationships.( A )

A. Lexical

C. Associative B. Conceptual

D. Grammatical