词汇学模拟试卷2及答案

《英语词汇学》模拟试卷（二）

I.Choose the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given brackets. (30%)

1. The prehistorical Indo-European parent language is thought to be a highly ______ language.

A. advanced

B. developed

C. analytic

D. inflected ( )

2. The word “prediction” contains no ______.

A. free morpheme

B. stem

C. bund morpheme

D. root ( )

3. The relationship between sound and meaning is ______ and conventional.

A. logical

B. arbitrary

C. objective

D. consistent ( )

4. The word “port” from “portus” is regarded as a ______.

A. semantic-loan

B. neologism

C. translation-loan

D. denizen ( )

5. Words created by adding word forming or derivational affixes to stems are called ______.

A. acronyms

B. blends

C. derivatives

D. compounds ( )

6. The word ______ is regarded as a deverbal noun.

A. popularity

B. persistence

C. productivity

D. priestess ( )

7. The word “disunite” contains a ______ prefix.

A. reversative

B. pejorative

C. negative

D. locative ( )

8. Motivation refers to the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______.

A. spelling

B. sound

C. meaning

D. function ( )

9. Extension of meaning is also known as ______.

A. specialization

B. elevation

C. generalization

D. degradation ( )

10. The words “husband” and “wife” are regarded as ______ terms.

A. relative

B. contradictory

C. contrary

D. graded ( )

11. The word “copperhead” was used to refer to those northerners who were secretly

aiding the South because of the ______ reason.

A. class

B. historical

C. social

D. psychological ( )

12. The meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure where it occurs, which

is called ______ context.

A. lexical

B. grammatical

C. linguistic

D. non-linguistic ( )

13. The idiom “heart and soul” is ______ in nature.

A. adjectival

B. verbal

C. adverbial

D. nominal ( )

14. The ambiguity of the sentence, “The ball is attractive,” is caused by ______.

A. homonymy

B. hyponymy

C. polysemy

D. synonymy ( )

15. The main body of a dictionary is its ______ of words.

A. notes

B. usage

C. spelling

D. definitions ( ) II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions given in the course book. (15%)

1. Bound morphemes include two types: bound root and _________________.

2. In compounds the word stress usually occurs on the _______________ element.

3. Some differences between sound and meaning were created by the ____________, who made a living by writing for other people.

4. All the words in a language make up its __________________.

5. Pronouns and numerals enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but are semantically monosemous and have limited ___________________ and collocability.

6. Scottish and Irish belong to the Celtic family, but Danish and German belong to the ___________________ family.

7. According to the ________________ which affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into two subclasses: prefixation and suffixation.

8. Lexical meaning itself embraces two components: __________________ meaning and associative meaning.

9. The most common types of word-meaning changes are __________________ and narrowing.

10. Of the three types of homonyms, __________________ constitute the largest number and are most common.

11. Transfer may also occur between abstract and ________________ meanings.

12. Idioms are generally felt to be __________________ and some are slang and colloquialisms.

13. Synonyms may differ in the ________________ and intensity of meaning.

14. So far as the language is concerned, a Chinese-English dictionary is regarded as a __________________ dictionary.

15. Compared with American dictionaries, British dictionaries, especially learner’s dictionaries, include more ____________ information.

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and then put in the brackets the letter “T” if the statement is true or “F” if it is false. (15%)

1. The Germanic tribes were thought to be the first peoples known to inhabit the British Isles. ( )

2. The chief function of prefixes is to change the meanings of stems. ( )

3. There is an inflectional morpheme in the word “internationalist”. ( )

4. The French influence on English vocabulary was one of the significant points of the Middle English period. ( )