词汇学模拟试卷3及答案

《英语词汇学》模拟试卷(三)

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

1. English words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by

______.

A. use frequency

B. origin

C. pronunciation

D. notion ( )

2. There was ______ agreement between sound and form in Old English than in Modern English.

A. less

B. a bit less

C. more

D. a bit more ( )

3. The early inhabitants of the British Isles were ______.

A. Scandinavians

B. Romans

C. Germans

D. Celts ( )

4. Modern English is regarded as a/an _______ language.

A. analytic

B. inflected

C. synthetic

D. advanced ( )

5. The word “internationalist” does not contain a/an ______.

A. bound morpheme

B. stem

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free morpheme ( )

6. The prefix “dis-“ in “disloyal” is a ______ prefix.

A. reversative

B. negative

C. pejorative

D. locative ( )

7. The word “dorm” is formed by clipping the ______.

A. back of a phrase

B. front of a word

C. back of a word

D. front of a phrase ( )

8. The overwhelming majority of blends are ______.

A. nouns

B. adverbs

C. verbs

D. adjectives ( )

9. Words are but symbols, many of which have meaning only when they have acquired ______.

A. motivation

B. reference

C. concepts

D. association ( )

10. The status of words either as superordinate or subordinate is ______ to other

words.

A. stable

B. fixed

C. consistent

D. relative ( )

11. The meaning of “lip” in “the lip of a wound” has experienced _____.

A. associated transfer

B. degradation

C. extension

D. elevation ( )

12. Linguistic context may cover the following except ______.

A. a paragraph

B. participants

C. a whole chapter

D. the entire book ( )

13. Ambiguity arises due to the following except ______.

A. homonymy

B. polysemy

C. synonymy

D. structure ( )

14. In the idiom “from cradle to grave”, ______ is used.

A. personification

B. metaphor

C. synecdoche

D. metonymy ( )

15. Theoretically, a/an ______ dictionary is a complete record of all the words in use.

A. desk

B. unabridged

C. pocket

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

1. Norwegian, Icelandic._______________ and Swedish are generally known as Scandinavian languages.

2. English words may fall into content words and functional words by ____________.

3. Now people generally refer to ___________________ as Old English.

4. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: creation, __________ change and borrowing.

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

6. Old English was a highly _________________ language like modern German.

7. Blending is the formation of new words by combining ________________ of two words or a word plus a part of another word.

8. Semantic motivation explains the connection between the _______________ sense and figurative sense of the word.

9. Synonyms can be classified into two groups: __________________ synonyms and relative synonyms..

10. When we talk about context, we usually think of _________________ context, hardly aware of the non-linguistic context..

11. The more _______________ the idioms, the more fixed the structure.

12. Changes of word meaning are due to _____________ factors and extra-linguistic factors.

13. Synonyms may differ in the range and _________________ of meaning.

14. The meaning of a word may be influenced by the ______________ in which it occurs. This is called grammatical context.

15. So far as the language is concerned, Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs is regarded as a __________________ dictionary.

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. Prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, numerals and articles all belong to functional words. ( )

2. With the development of the language, more and more differences arose between sound and form. ( )

3. The chief function of suffixes is to change the meanings of stems. ( )

4. There is no free morpheme in the word “prediction”. ( )