词汇学作业2017

词汇学作业

一. 判断正误

1. English is more closely related to German than French

2.Old English was a highly inflected language

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

4. Modern English is considered to be an analytic language

5. An idiom contains at least two words

6. Some idioms deny analysis in terms of grammar

7. All idioms are used in their figurative senses

8. Contradictory terms do not show degrees

9. Contrary terms are non-gradable.

10. Words which have opposite meaning are called antonyms.

二. 选择

1. Degradation can be illustrated by the following example_______

A. lewd → ignorant

B. silly → foolish

C. last → pleasure

D. knave → boy

2. The four major modes of semantic change are _________.

A. extension, narrowing, elevation and degradation

B. extension, generalization, elevation and degradation

C. extension, narrowing, specialization and degradation

D. extension, elevation, amelioration and degradation

3. Old English has a vocabulary of about _____ words.

A. 30,000 to 40,000

B. 50,000 to 60,000

C. 70,000 to 80,000

D. 80,000 to 90,000

4. A word is a symbol that _____ .

A. is used by the same speech community

B. represents something else in the world

C. is both simple and complex in nature

D. shows different ideas in different sounds

5. Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stable because they _____.

A. are complex words.

B. are technical words

C. refer to the commonest things in life.

D. denote the most important concepts.

三．添加词缀

1. success_____

2. act_____

3. state_____

4. host_____

5. friend_____

6. _____tell

7. _____trust 8. _____weight

9. _____mature 10 _____fair

四．解释词缀

1. trans

2. mono

3.super

4. sub

5. auto

6.ex

7. pre

8. mini

9. multi

10. mal

五．完成成语

wind and______ break and______

rules and_______ hard and _______

over and_______ wheeling and_____

off and______ neck and______

milk and______ now and______

六．简答题

1.What is the difference between prefixation and suffixation ?

Explain them with examples.

2. Illustrate the relationship between sound and meaning with examples.