词汇学第一、二章课后习题及答案

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2012级（1）班

Chaper1 The Basic Concepts Of Words and Vocabulary

of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

1. ______is the most important of all characteristics of the basic word stock. Stability national character

2. Nonbasic vocabulary includes all of the following except_______ .

words

3. According to the origins of the words, English words can be classified into

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_______ .

words and functional words words and borrowed words

words and dialectal words words and dialectal words

4. Borrowings can be divided into________.

, semantic loans, translationloans, denizens

words, notional words, form words, content words

, portmanteau words, acronyms, initializes

, compounds, converted words and clipped words

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5. Apart from the characteristics of basic vocabulary, native words have two other features, namely_________.

and stability in style and high frequency in use

and polysemy and arbitrariness

6．The word beaver(meaning“girl”)is_______ .

dialectal word archaism

7. AIDS as a nonbasic word is_______ .

archaism

words include the following word classes except_______ .

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9. Vocabulary can refer to the following except_______ .

total number of the words in alanguage

the words used in a particular historical period

the words of a given dialect

words a person knows

is a loan word from_______ .

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11. _______ form the mainstream of the basic word stock.

words B. Frenchwords words words

humor is_______ .

translation loan semantic loan denizen alien

and numerals are semantically_______ and have limited_______ .

;use and stability ;collocability and stability

;use and productivity ;productivity andcollectability

is_______ .

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archaism

,words fall into functional words and content words.

frequency formation

16. The symbolic connection between sound and meaning is almost always_______ .

17. _______ are loan words that have become assimilated in English.

A.Denizens loans loans

, which means “police”,is a(n) _______ word.

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19. Wherein which means “in what”is a(n)word. _______

difference between sound and form due to all the following except _______. phonemes than letters

B. stabilization of spelling by printing

of spelling by early scribes

of pronunciation

the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book

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1. Lexicology is a branch of linguisticsstudying the origins and_______ of words .

2. A word is a minimal free form of language that has a given sound, meaning and_______ function.

3. In spite of the differences between sound and form,at least_______ percent of the English words fit consistent spelling patterns

the words in language make up its_______ .

word stock is the foundations of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and form the common core of the language.

,begin is a native word.

7. _______ vocabulary include cant,jargon and argot.

8. There is no_______ relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself.

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9. _______ are the basic units of sentences.

10. Early borrowings are mostly_______ whereas later loan words remain foreign in sound and spelling.

whether the following statements are true or false

( ) word can be defined in different ways from different points of view.

( ) no circumstances can sound and meaning be intrinsically related.

( ) introduction of printing press resulted in a lot more differences between