[英语学习]词汇学综合练习

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a. He ____ for interrupting her.
b. She tried to ___ her room with posters and plants.
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6. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is
creation of new words by means of word formation.
7. The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of the components.
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1. Decide whether the statements are true or false.
1. A word is the smallest form of a language. 2. There is no intrinsic relationship between
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c. A study has been ordered into the feasibility of ____ the airport’s main runway by two
hundred meters.
d. However much they ___ with her, they all felt it was her fault.
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3. Look up these words in a dictionary to determine the language from which each has been borrowed and then translate them into Chinese.
yacht taboo (Polynesian) cotton chocolate
coolie czar kimono chili wonton tatami Muslin kangaroo voodoo wok sauerkraut
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4. Write the terms in the blanks according to the definition:
a. A minimal meaningful unit of a language()
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8. sampan, liche, ketchup, kaolin, typhoon 9. czar, troika, commissar, intelligentsia 10. geometry, gymnastics, tragedy, prologue
philology, myth
n. Women have an equal say in affairs at home.
o. We must train ourselves to distinguish right from wrong.
p. They braved a 40-below-zero storm to
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rescue the farm’s cattle.
e. Soya is excellent food to ___ cattle.
f. Forty thousand pound had been spent on ___ the station.
g. ___ the bottles by immersing them in boiling water for fifteen minutes.
k. He Hamleted at the chance and then he regretted for it.
l. These shoes were an excellent buy.
m. He turned his head and smoothed back the hair over one temple.
b. Robert Acheson roomed right next to me.
c. He wolfed down his lunch.
d. There is no come and go with her.
e. I’m one of his familiars.
f. Poor innocents.
sound and meaning as the connection between them is arbitrary and conventional. 3. English is more closely related to German than French.
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5. Old English was a highly inflected language.
10. The conversion between nouns and verbs may involve a change of stress.
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2. Analyze the following lexical groups and state through what languages they came into English
1. cake, knife, crop, egg, ill, husband 2. honour, court, chivalry, heritage, literature 3. carouse, plunder, zinc, dock, quarts, cobalt 4. genius, stratum, inertia, memorandum, formula 5. pedestal, cornice, cupola, sonata, fresco 6. plaza, mulatto, embargo, armada, galleon 7. sultan, roc, yashmak, ghoul, harem, sheikh
8. Such words as the poorer, the departed, a Republican are all examples of partial conversion.
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9. As a rule, the stress of compounds falls on the first element.
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6. Turn the phrasal verbs below into compounds and translate them into Chinese
break out break through take in slide down
fall down cry out run away hang over
f. An affix that indicates grammatical relationships ()
g. An affix that forms new words with a stem or root ()
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5. Turn the following nouns and adjectives into verbs with suffixes –en, -ify, -ize and then choose appropriate verbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences that follow.
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7. Pick out the words which you think are converted in the following sentences and explain how they are converted.
a. We can’t stomach such an insult.
b. One of the variants that realize a morpheme ()
cBiblioteka Baidu A morpheme that occurs with at least one other morpheme ()
d. A morpheme that can stand alone ()
e. A morpheme attached to a stem or root ()
g. She flatted her last notes.
h. The engineers ahed and ouched at the new
machines.
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i. Come to the fire and have a warm.
j. Is Bill Jackson a has-been or might-have been?