词汇学模拟试卷1及答案
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《英语词汇学》模拟试卷(一)
I. Choose the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given brackets. (30%)
1. The minimal meaningful units in English are known as ______.
A. roots
B. morphs
C. stems
D. morphemes
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2. The most important of all the features of the basic word stock is ______.
A. stability .
B. productivity
C. polysemy .
D. all national character
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3. Old English vocabulary was essentially ______ with a number of borrowings from Latin and Scandinavian.
A. Celtic .
B. Hellenic
C. Italic .
D. Germanic . ( )
4. In modern times, ______ is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.
A. borrowing
B. backformation
C. creation
D. semantic change
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5. The words “motel” and “comsat” are called ______.
A. blends
B. compounds
C. acronyms
D. initialisms . ( )
6. The word “teachers” contains three morphemes, but the word
“shortenings” has ______ morphemes.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
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7. Reference is the relationship between language and the ______.
A. concept
B. world
C. context .
D. sense
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8. Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example: ______.
A. dorm for “dormitory”
B. fond for “affectionate”
C. dish for “food”
D. TV for “television”
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9. The word “mouth” in the phrase “the mouth of a river” is regarded as a ______ motivated word.
A. morphologically
B. etymologically
C. onomatopoeically
D. semantically
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10. Words formed by acronymy can be divided into initialisms and acronyms depending on the ______ of the word.
A. pronunciation
B. spelling
C. function
D. meaning
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11. Frogs croak, but elephants ______.
A. neigh
B. squeak
C. bleat .
D. trumpet
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12. The antonyms “present” and “absent” are ______ terms.
A. relative
B. contrary
C. contradictory
D. graded
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13. The idiom “scream and shout” is a good example of ______.
A. reiteraton
B. alliteration
C. repetition
D. juxtaposition
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14. Ambiguity arises due to all the following except ______.
A. polysemy
B. synonymy
C. homonymy
D. structure
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15. The order of meanings in CCELD indicates the ______ changes of words.
A. grammatical
B. morphological
C. semantic
D. phonological
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II. Complete the following sentences with the proper words or expressions given in the course book. (15%)
1. A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given
__________________
and meaning and syntactic function.
2. English has evolved from a ____________________ language (Old English) to the present analytic language.
3. Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as ___________________ morphemes.
4. A ________________ is known as the smallest functioning unit in the