词汇学复习

英语词汇学引论

题型：1.单选；2.填空；3.连线；4；5.名词解释；6.简答；7.论述

一．单选

1.According to the degree of similarity,homonyms(同音异形词）can be classified into:：(D) All above

2.Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example:：(B) dish for food

3.It's general belief that the meaning does exist in the world itself,but it rather spreads over：

(B)neighbouring words

4.Which of the following is a prefix of time and order：(C) re—

5.Which is not a kind of specialized dictionary：(B) Encyclopedic（百科全书）

6.Which of the following statements is not true? (D) sense denotes the relationships outside the language

7.The words which occur before or offer a word and may affect it meaning from：(C) lexical context

8."Smith is an architect, he designed World Trade Center."The clue provided in the context is：

(C) example

9.The term"vocabulary" is used in different ways because of all the following expect：(A) It can refer to the common core of a language

10.The idiom"A dark horse" is a：（B）metaphor

11.An idiom differs from free phrase in that the former is_____and_the latter is not：

(C) structurally fixed__

12.We can make out the meaning of heliocentric and geocentric according to：

(A) morphological structure

13.What cause the ambiguity（歧义）of the sentence"I like Mary better than Jennet"：(C) structure

14.Early Modern English refers to the language spoken：(C) From 1500 to 1700

15.Affixes added to the end of the words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as：

(C) inflectional morphemes（曲折语素）

16.There are_____major classes compounds：(C) three

17.What is not true? (C) Affective meaning is universal to all man alive

18.After the invading Germanic tribes settled down in Britain,their language almost totally blotted out：(C) Celtic

19.The idiom"Jack of all trades"results from：(D) shortening

20.____are those can not occur as separate words without adding other morphemes：

(C) Bound morphemes

21.The major factors that promote the growth of modern English are：(D) all of above

22.Since the beginning of this Century,_____has become even more important for the expansion of English vocabulary：（A) word—formation构词法

23.Which of the following characteristic of the basic word（基础词汇）stock is the most important：(D) national character

24.The two major factors that cause changes in meaning are：(D) extra—linguistic and linguistic factors

25.The fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is whether：(D) all of above

26.Degradation of meaning is the opposite of ：(C) semantic elevation

27.An idiom consists of at least two words.Each has a single meaning and often functions as one word.This is called：（A) semantic unity

28.Which of the following suffixes can be used to form both nouns and adjectives ：