词汇学 考试题型

大学英语专业词汇学考试模拟试卷(1)

I. Choose the best from the four answers provided for each question. (20 points)

1.Which of the following statements is NOT true? B

A.Shakespeare’s poem “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” is a reflection of the conventionalist’s opinion concerning the rel ationship between sound and meaning.

B.Facts have proved the naturalists to be valid concernin g the relationship between sound and meaning.

C.The conventionalists hold that the relations between so und and meaning are conventional and arbitrary.

D.The fact that words with the same meaning have differ ent phonological forms in different languages supports the con ventionalists.

2.The word “brunch” is formed from “breakfast” and “lunc h”. Such a process of word-formation is called ___C________ _.

A.affixation

B. back-formation

C. blending

D. ab breviation

3.It’s easy for us to associate “husband” with “wife”. Suc

h an association is an application of ____D________.

A.the minimal-contrast rule

B.the feature-deletion and –addition rule

C.the marking rule

D.the category preservation rule

4.The pair of anton yms “teach—learn” belong to ___C___ ______.

plementaries

B.contraries

C.conversives

D.None of the above

5.The derivational antonym of “pleasant” is ________B__ __.

A.pleasure

B.unpleasant

C.disgusting

D.not pleasant

6.The pair of words “air —heir” belong to ___C_______ __.

A.homograph

B.homophone

C.full homonyms

D.none of the above

7.The major difference between “propaganda” and “publici ty” lies in their _____B_______.

A.distribution

B.emotional coloring

C.stylistic coloring

D.collocation

8.The semantic relationship between “spinach” and “veget able” is a kind of _____C_______.

A.hyponymy

B.antonymy

C.synonymy

D.homonymy

9.____________are related in the same way as the pair of words “Mystery: Clue” are related to each other.

A.Book: reader

B.fruit: bowl

C.door: key

D.detective: crime

10.The word “nice” originally meant “foolish”, and now it means “pleasant”. This process of s emantic change is called _ __C____.

A.degeneration

B.generalization

C.elevation

D.specialization

11.Which of the following statements is NOT true about t he formula “word –concept –referent”? D

A.A concept is the base of the meaning of a word.

B.A concept is an abstraction from the referents.

C.The formula shows that the word refers to the referent through a concept.

D.There is a direct relationship between a word and its r eferent.

12.____C________means using a form that represents one part of speech as another part of speech without changin g the form of the word.

A.Blending

B.Conversion

C.Shortening

D.Affixation