英语词汇学英语词汇学习题3及答案

英语词汇学英语词汇学习题3及答案

试题三

第一部分选择题

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative

answers. Choose the one that would best complete the

statement and put the letter in the bracket.(30%)

to the degree of similarity, homonyms can be classified into

( )

A. perfect homonyms

B. homonyms

C. homophones

D. all the above

as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the

example ( )

A. ad for “advertisement”

B. dish for “food"

C. fond for “affectionate”

D. an editorial for “an editorial article"

is a general belief that the meaning does not exist in the

word itself, but it rather spreads over ( )

A. the reader’s interpretation

B. the neighbouring words

C. the writer's intention

D. the etymology of the word

of the following is a prefix of time and order?

A. extra-

B. pro-

C. re-

D. semi-

of the following dictionaries is not a specialized dictionary?

A. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

B. Chamber's Encyclopedic English Dictionary

C. Longmont Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs

D. Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms

of the following statements is Not true?

A. Reference is the relationship between language and the

world.

B. The relationship between a word and its referent is

arbitrary.

C. Concept is universal to all men alike.

D. Sense denotes the relationships outside the language.

words which occur before or after a word and may affect its

meaning form ( ) A. physical context B. grammatical context

C. lexical context

D. linguistic context

8."Smith is an architect. He designed World Trade Center.

"The clue provided in the context is ( )

A. definition

B. explanation

C. example

D. hyponym

term "vocabulary" is used in different ways because of all the

following reasons EXCEPT that ( )

A. it can refer to the common core of a language

B. it can refer to the total number of the words in a language

C. it can represent all the words used in a certain historical

period

D. it can stand for words in given dialect or field

idiom "a dark horse" is a ( )

A. simile

B. metaphor

C. metonymy

D. personification

idiom differs from a free phrase in that the former is ( ) and

the latter is not.

A. structurally changeable

B. semantically analyzable

C. structurally fixed

D. easily understood

can work out the meaning of heliocentric and geocentric

according to ( ) A. morphological structure B. relevant details

C. grammatical structure

D. physical context

causes the ambiguity of the sentence ”I like Mary better

than Janet"? ( ) A. Vocabulary B. Situation

C. Structure

D. None of the above

Modern English refers to the language spoken ( )

A. from 1066 to 1500

B. from 1150 to 1500

C. from 1500 to 1700

D. from 1600 to 1800

added to the end of words to indicate grammatical

relationships are known as ( )

A. bound roots

B. free morphemes

C. inflectional morphemes

D. derivational affixes

第二部分非选择题

Ⅱ.Complete the following statements with proper words or

expressions according to the course book. (10%)

meaning refers to the part of speech, tenses of verbs, etc.

word __________ has the old meaning "servant" and the

elevated meaning "head of a ministry".

relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary or

______________.

a word with more than one meaning is used in unclear

context, it creates _______________.

all affixes are __________morphemes because few can be used

as independent words.

Ⅲ.Match the words in Column A with those in Column B

according to 1)rhetorical features of the idioms; 2)sense relations;

3)assimilation degree;

4)characteristics

5)motivation.(10%)

A B

( ) A. high and low

( ) B. pick and choose

( ) C. face to face

homonym ( ) D. Failure is the mother of success.

( ) E. hiss

( ) F. bear; bear

( ) G. twitter

( ) H. cat

( ) I. port

( ) J. heart and soul

Ⅳ.Study the following words and expressions and identify 1)

types of context clues;

2) types of word formation; 3) types of word-meaning

of the basic word stock and

changes and 4) rhetorical features of idioms.(10%)

a restatement of a new word or concept in familiar words ( )

( )

usual amenities such as a pub, a post office and a school ( )

cradle to grave ( )

and main ( )

( )

,impolite, ( )

:"housewife"→"a woman of low

morals"( ) :"discomfort"→"illness"( )

:"foolish"→"affectionate"( )

Ⅴ.Define the following terms.(10%)

nominal in nature

Ⅵ.Answer the following questions. Your answers should be

clear and short. Write your answers in the space given

below.(12%)

are the stylistic features of idioms?

would you explain the difference between back formation

and suffixation? Give examples to illustrate your point.

48. How do you distinguish inflectional affixes and

derivational affixes?

Ⅶ.Analyze and comment on the following. Write your

answers in the space given below.(18%)

on the following pairs of sentences in terms of superordinate

and subordinates.

a. The man said he would come to our school next week.

b. The visiting scholar said he would visit our university next

Monday.

the morphological structures of the following words and

point out the types of the morphemes.

unbearable, international, ex-prisoner

试题参考答案

Ⅰ.Each of the statements below is followed by four

alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete

the statement and put the letter in the

bracket.(30%)

Ⅱ.Complete the following statements with proper words or

expressions according to the course book.(10%)

16. Grammatical 17. minister 18. conventional 19. ambiguity

20. bound

Ⅲ.Match the words in Column A with those in Column B.

(10%)

Ⅳ.Study the following words and expressions and identify

1)types of context clues;

2)types of word formation; 3)types of word-meaning

changes and 4)rhetorical

features of idioms.(10%)

+head blending

hyponym

of speech; metonymy

manipulation/alliteration

clipping

, prefixation or negative prefixes

Ⅴ.Define the following terms.(10%)

41. Dictionary is a book which presents in alphabetical order

the words of a language, with information as to their spelling,

pronunciation, meaning usage, etc.

42. Degradation or pejoration of meaning is the opposite of

semantic elevation. It is a process whereby words of good origin

fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in

derogatory sense.

43.(1)Each idiom has a noun as the key word.

(2)Each functions as a noun/also knows as

noun idioms.

term used to refer to a branch of the Indo-European

language family, which consists of English, German, Dutch, etc.

of the variants that realize a morpheme

Ⅵ.Answer the following questions.(12%)

46.(1)Many idioms were created in different professions, so

they were trade-or profession-related, colloquial and informal.

(2)Now most become a part of the common core, neither

formal nor informal.

(3)There are still many colloquialisms, slang expressions,

literary expressions comparatively small in number.

Suffixation is the formation of new words by adding suffixes

to bases.

B)Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of

suffixation; it's the method of creating words by removing the

supposed suffixes.

affixes are affixes (1) attached to the end of words; (2) to

indicate grammatical relationships, while derivational affixes are

affixes; (3) added to other morphemes;

(4) to create new words.

Ⅶ.Answer the following questions. Your answers should be

clear and short Write your answers in the space given below.(18%)

49.要点：

Superordinate Subordinate

1) man scholar

2) come visit

3) school university

4) week Monday

50.

1)Each of the three words consists of three morphemes

unbearable(un+bear+able), international (inter+nation+al), ex-prisoner(er+prison+er).

2)Of the nine morphemes, only bear, nation and prison are

free morphemes as they can exist by themselves.

3)All the rest un-,-able,inter-,-al, ex-and-er are bound as

none of them can stand alone as words.