词汇学试题练习02

《词汇学》练习试题02

PART ONE Multiple Choice（15%）

DIRECTIONS: Altogether there are 15 statements in this section. Beneath each statement there are four possible answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one that best completes the statement. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

1. Morphology is the study about ___B___.

A. words’ sound

B. words’ form

C. words’ meaning

D. words’ collocation

2. __B____ has devoted much of his life to the construction of CL, that is, cognitive linguistics.

A. Plato

B. Chomsky

C. Saussure

D. Lakoff

3. All the words in the following items are complex words except __C____.

A. cut-throat

B. valuable

C. wear

D. runaway

4. Negro, a(n) ___A___ in American English, means a black man.

A. taboo

B. euphemism

C. jargon

D. colloquialism

5. ___D___ had been the temporary official language in the UK Island in the 11-12th centuries.

A. Chinese

B. Norse

C. Dutch

D. French

6. T he word bazaar from Persian is regarded as a kind of __D____.

A. denizen

B. alien

C. translation loan

D. semantic loan

7. The following underlined morphemes in the words are all bound morphemes except __A____.

A. teaching

B. man-made

C. humanism

D. assistance

8. In shorting, there are various forms for the shortened words, and “dorm” belongs to __C____.

A. initialism

B. acronym

C. clipping

D. blending

9. The word “fame” in the sentence “He came to this city seeking money and fame.” refers to its ___D___ meaning.

A. stylistic

B. affective

C. social

D. reflected

10. The word “face” is defined as “t he surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear” in the dictionary. Which of the following shows the central meaning of face? C

A. What this generation must do is to face its problems.

B. Don't show your face on my property again.

C. We saw many new faces on the first day of classes.

D. The young girl offered a sweet kiss on his face.

11. The word “busyboy” used to r efer to a busy person, but now it refers to any officious and meddlesome person, so “busyboy” has undergone __D____ in its change of meaning.

A. extension

B. narrowing

C. euphemism

D. degradation

12. The idiom “a black sleep” is a kind of ___B__ idioms in nature.

A. nominal

B. adjectival

C. verbal

D. adverbial

13. LDCE is a kind of ___A___.

A. dictionary

B. thesaurus

C. corpus

D. vocabulary

14. In Old English, most words have ___D___.

A. few word endings

B. no word endings

C. many word endings

D. few grammatical functions

15. Which of the following groups of antonyms belongs to the same type of antonym with “alive /dead”?A

A. present /absent

B. young /old

C. parents /children

D. cop /thief

PART TWO Terms （5%）

DIRECTIONS: In this part of the test, there are 5 terms from lexicology. Choose the right words or phrases from the list given below to best explain these terms. Write the proper answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

A. The branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language.

B. The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.

C. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive, such as “pass away” for “die”.

D. The data bank of e-texts

E. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

16. syntax ( E )

17. corpus ( D )

18. root ( A )

19. euphemism ( C )

20. lexicology ( B )