英语词汇学复习题

1.John _______ my suggestions. (reject, refuse, decline)

2.Archaisms are words no longer in _______________ use or __________________ in use.

3.The doctor ________ to give me permission to leave the hospital. (reject, refuse, decline)

4.The language used between 450 and 1150 is called ____________________, which has a

vocabulary of _____________________.

5.She ______ their invitation to a dinner party. (reject, refuse, decline)

6.The major means of word-formation are _____________, compounding and

________________.

7. A blind man smilingly ______ to be helped across the street. (reject, refuse, decline)

8.Generally speaking, prefixes do not change part of __________ of the stems but their

____________.

9.Tom was _______ for the army because of his poor health. (reject, refuse, decline)

10.Relative synonyms differ in such areas as ____________________, ___________________

(stylistic and affective), and application.

11.He’s made ______ progress in English. (rapid, fast)

12.He’s a ________ worker. (rapid, fast)

13.I’m going to take a ________ train to Shanghai tonight. (rapid, fast)

14.It’s no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a ________.(anger, rage, fury,

indignation)

15.Blind with _________, he broke the glasses. (anger, rage, fury, indignation)

判断题

1. Perfect homonyms share the same spelling and pronunciation.

2. Contrary terms are non-gradable and allow intermediate members in between.

3. Idioms are fixed in structure and so can never be changed

4. In early Middle English period, English, Latin and Celtic existed side by side.

5. An idiom contains at least two words.

名词解释题

1. morpheme

2. denizens

3. suffixation

4. conceptual meaning

5. elevation

6. synonyms

7. homographs

8. extra-linguistic context

9. desk dictionaries

翻译题

1)to burn one’s boat

2)to add fuel to the flames

3)to hang by a thread

4)to go through fire and water

5)castle in the air

6)to grope in the dark

7) a thorn in sb’s flesh

8)in one ear and out the other

9)Misfortune never comes alone.

10)Wall have ears

11)Live and learn

12)There is no smoke without fire

13)Life is not all beer and skittles

14)He laughs best, who laughs last.

15)Health, wealth.

简答题

1. What are the characteristics of basic word stock?

2. What are the origins of homonyms?