《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              (  )
2. The most important of all the features of the basic word stock is ______.
  A. stability                      .    B. productivity
  C. polysemy                    .    D. all national character        (  )
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          (  )
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                    (  )
7. Reference is the relationship between language and the ______.
  A. concept                          B. world
  C. context              .            D. sense                    (  )
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”        (  )
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              (  )
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                  (  )
11. Frogs croak, but elephants ______.
  A. neigh                            B. squeak
  C. bleat      .                      D. trumpet                  (  )
12. The antonyms “present” and “absent” are ______ terms.
minimal  A. relative                          B. contrary
  C. contradictory                      D. graded                    (  )
13. The idiom “scream and shout” is a good example of ______.
  A. reiteraton                        B. alliteration
  C. repetition                        D. juxtaposition              (  )
14. Ambiguity arises due to all the following except ______.
  A. polysemy                        B. synonymy
  C. homonymy                        D. structure                (  )
15. The order of meanings in CCELD indicates the ______ changes of words.
  A. grammatical                      B. morphological
  C. semantic                          D. phonological              (  )
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 composition
  of words.
5. Although reference is a kind of abstraction, yet with the help of _______________
  it can refer to something specific.
6. The second major language known in England was the _________________ of the Roman Legions.
7. Conceptual meaning is also known as ____________________ meaning.
8. The relationship between sound and meaning is _________________ and arbitrary.
9. Hyponymy deals with the relationship of __________________ inclusion.
10. The same word may have different ___________________ meanings as shown in “do, does, did, done, doing.”

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