《英语词汇学》期末考试复习题

英语词汇学期末考试复习题
一、单项选择题
1.According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.
A.sounds
B.meaning
C.form
D.function
【正确答案】 B
2.A word is a ______ that stands for something else in the world.
A.symbol
B.system
C.structure
D.pattern
【正确答案】 A
3.We consider that the written form of a natural language is the written record of the ______ form.
A.writer
B.practical
C.oral
D.grammatical
【正确答案】 C
4.In spite of the differences, at least ______ percent of the English words fit consistent spelling patterns.
A.sixty
B.seventy
C.eighty
D.ninety
【正确答案】 C
5.Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.
e frequency
B.notion
C.origin
D.stability
【正确答案】 B
6.Among the feature of words of the basic word stock, ______ is the most important one that may differentiate words of common use from all others.
A.all national character
B.stability
C.productivity
D.collocability
【正确答案】 A
7.______ belong to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words.
A.Jargons
B.Slangs
C.Argots
D.Dialectal words
【正确答案】 B
8.Native words in English are words brought to Britain in the ______ century by some German tribes.
A.eighth
B.seventh
C.fifth
D.sixth
【正确答案】 C
9.Which of the following words isn’t the alien?
A.decor
B.bazaar
C.shift
D.emir
【正确答案】 C
10._______ are words or forms that were once in common use but are now restricted only to specialized or limited use.
A.Archaisms
B.Slang
C.Argot
D.Dialectal words
【正确答案】 A
11.The Indo-European language family accordingly fall into _______ principle groups, which can be grouped into an Eastern set and Western set.
A.eight
B.six
C.five
D.several
【正确答案】 A
12.The first peoples known to inhabit England were ______.
A.Celts
B.Romans
C.Anglo-Saxons
D.Jutes
【正确答案】 A
13.Old English has a vocabulary of about ______ words.
A.30000 to 40000
B.40000 to 50000
C.50000 to 60000
D.60000 to 70000
【正确答案】 C
14.Between 1250 and 1500 about ______ words of French poured into English.
A.7000
B.8000
C.9000
D.10000
【正确答案】 C
ually we regard which of the following periods as Early Modern English?
A.450 to 1150
B.1150 to 1500
C.1500 to 1600
D.1500 to 1700
【正确答案】 D
16.In the growth of present-day English vocabulary, there are three main sources of new words: the rapid development of modern science and technology; social, economic and political changes; the influence of ______.
A.the educational system
B.other cultures and languages
C.the government system
D.the society changes
【正确答案】 B
17.In modern times, ______ is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.
A.creation
B.semantic change
C.borrowing
D.reviving archaic or obsolete words
【正确答案】 A
18.American English like to use ______.
A.creation
B.reviving archaic or obsolete words
C.semantic change
D.borrowing
【正确答案】 B
19.In the Eastern set, _______ and ________ are each the only modern language respectively.
A.Italic, Germanic
B.Armenian, Albanian
C.Celtic, Hellenic
D.Balto-Slavic, Into-Iranian
【正确答案】 B
20.The ________ is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India.
A.Germanic
B.Balto-Slavic
C.Indo-European
D.Indo-Iranian
【正确答案】 C
21.______ is the smallest functioning unite in the composition of words.
A.Morpheme
B.Allomorph
C.Word
D.Stem
【正确答案】 A
22.______are abstract units.
A.Morphs
B.Allomorphs
C.Morphemes
D.All of the above
【正确答案】 C
23.The morpheme is to the morph what a_____is to a______.
A.word / sound
B.root / affix
C.stem / affix
D.phoneme / phone
【正确答案】 D
24.Bound morphemes include ______ and affix.
A.stem
B.root
C.bound root
D.prefix and suffix
【正确答案】 C
25.Words produced by conversion are primarily ______.
A.nouns
B.adjectives
C.verbs
D.all the above
【正确答案】 D
26.______are attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships.
A.Affixes
B.Suffixes
C.Inflectional affixes
D.None of the above
【正确答案】 C
27.The number of inflectional affixes is ______.
A.small and changeable
rge and changeable
C.small and stable
rge and stable
【正确答案】 C
28.Desire, desirable and desired are______.
A.roots
B.stems
C.free roots
D.roots as well as stems
【正确答案】 B
29.Almost all affixes are_________because few can be used as independent words.
A.free morphemes
B.bound morphemes
C.bound root
D.inflectional affixes
【正确答案】 B
30.A_________is a bound form and has to combine with other morphemes to make words.
A.free root
B.bound root
C.free morphemes
D.inflectional affixes
【正确答案】 B
31._____doesn’t belong to the most productive means of word-formation.
A.Affixation
pounding
C.Conversion
D.Blending
【正确答案】 D
32.Prefixes do not generally change the ____ of the stem but only modify its meaning.
A.word-class
B.sound
C.form
D.structure
【正确答案】 A
33.All of the following are pejorative prefixes except ______.
A.mal-
B.arch-
C.pseudo-
D.mis-
【正确答案】 B
34.-eer, -er, -ess, -ette, -let are all suffixes added to noun bases to produce _____ nouns.
A.abstract
B.de-verbal
C.concrete
D.de-adjective
【正确答案】 C
35.The conversion of two-syllable nouns into verbs involves a change of______.
A.spelling
B.pronunciation
C.stress
D.function
【正确答案】 C
36.The overwhelming majority of blends are ______.
A.verbs
B.adjectives
C.nouns
D.numbers
【正确答案】 C
37.Back-formation is the method of creating new words by ______ the
so-called suffixes.
A.removing
bining
C.shortening
D.considering
【正确答案】 A
38.There are four common types of clipping: _______, _______, ________ and ________.
A.front clipping, back clipping, front and back clipping, phrase clipping
B.front clipping, back clipping, front and back clipping, middle clipping
C.front clipping, back clipping, middle clipping, phrase clipping
D.front clipping, front and back clipping, middle clipping, phrase clipping
【正确答案】 A
39.Some words are from characters in mythology, e. g. cherub from _______.
A.Cherub
B.God
C.Proteus
D.Mackintosh
【正确答案】 A
40.Stylistically, back-formed words are largely ________ and some of them have not gained public acceptance.
A.formal
B.adjectives
C.human nouns
rmal
【正确答案】 D
41.Most verbs converted from adjectives have both transitive and ________ functions.
A.intransitive
B.voiceless
C.link
D.adjective
【正确答案】 A
42.Most compounds consist of only _______ stems.
A.one
B.two
C.three
D.four
【正确答案】 B
43.Words are but symbols, many of which have meaning only when they have acquired ______.
A.reference
B.form
C.connection
D.motivation
【正确答案】 A
44.The connection between the word-meaning and the thing it refers to is ______.
A.logical
B.conventional
C.grammatical
D.formal
【正确答案】 B
45.Generally speaking, the meaning of ‘meaning’ is pe rhaps what is termed _______.
A.concept
B.idea
C.convention
D.sense
【正确答案】 D
46._______ meaning and grammatical meaning make up the word-meaning.
A.Conceptual
B.Lexical
C.Social
D.Associative
【正确答案】 B
47.________ indicates the speaker’s attitude towards the person or thing in question.
A.Connotative meaning
B.Stylistic meaning
C.Collocative meaning
D.Affective meaning
【正确答案】 D
48._______, though having little lexical meaning, possess strong grammatical meaning.
A.Content words
B.Functional words
C.Borrowed words
D.Native words
【正确答案】 B
49.Black market means _______.
A.‘the market black in colour’
B.‘illegal selling and buying’
C.‘the market having many people’
D.none of the above
【正确答案】 B
50._____ is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages.
A.Homonymy
B.Polysemy
C.Synonymy
D.Antonymy
【正确答案】 B
51.The problem of interrelation of the various meanings of the same word can be dealt with from diachronic and ______.
putational
B.historical approach
C.synchronic approach
parative approach
【正确答案】 C
52.The differences between synonyms boil down to the following except ______.
A.denotation
B.connotation
C.application
D.pronunciation
【正确答案】 D
53.______ means the stylistic and emotive colouring of words.
A.Pronunciation
B.Connotation
C.Denotation
D.Application
【正确答案】 B
54._______ truly represent oppositeness of meaning.
A.Contradictory terms
B.Contray terms
C.Relative terms
D.Absolute synonyms
【正确答案】 A
55.The basic meaning of a word is the core of word-meaning called the _______ meaning.
A.first
B.derived
C.central
D.none of the above
【正确答案】 C
56.Absolute synonyms are_______ in natural languages.
A.numerous
B.rare
C.popular
mon
【正确答案】 B
57.________ deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion.
A.Polysemy
B.Homoymy
C.Antonymy
D.Hyponymy
【正确答案】 D
58.Which of the following is not the antonym of dull?
A.sunny
B.sharp
C.acute
D.fast
【正确答案】 D
59.________ are best viewed in terms of a scale running between two poles or extremes.
A.Contradictory terms
B.Contrary terms
C.Relative terms
D.Antonyms
【正确答案】 B
60.________ is concerned with semantic opposition.
A.Antonymy
B.Homonymy
C.Polysemy
D.Hyponymy
【正确答案】 A
61.Consequence means________.
A.small
B.happiness
C.expand
D.result
【正确答案】 D
62.Among the types of word-meaning changes, ______ and narrowing are the most common by far.
A.degradation
B.transfer
C.elevation
D.extension
【正确答案】 D
63.Extension of meaning is also called ______.
A.generalization
B.specialization
C.characterization
D.popularization
【正确答案】 A
64.Narrowing of meaning is also called ______.
A.generalization
B.specialization
C.characterization
D.popularization
【正确答案】 B
65.Words which were used to designate one thing but later changed to mean something else have experienced process of semantic _____.
A.extension
B.degradation
C.transfer
D.elevation
【正确答案】 C
66.The attitudes of classes have also made inroads into lexical meaning in the case of _____.
A.narrowing
B.extension
C.degradation
D.transfer
【正确答案】 C。