《英语词汇学》模拟试卷 (三)
I. Choose the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given brackets. (30%)
1. English words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.
A. use frequency B. origin
C. pronunciation D. notion ( )
understandable2. There was ______ agreement between sound and form in Old English than in Modern English.
A. less B. a bit less
C. more D. a bit more ( )
3. The early inhabitants of the British Isles were ______.
A. Scandinavians B. Romans
C. Germans D. Celts ( )
4. Modern English is regarded as a/an _______ language.
A. analytic B. inflected
C. synthetic D. advanced ( )
5. The word “internationalist” does not contain a/an ______.
A. bound morpheme B. stem
C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme ( )
6. The prefix “dis-“ in “disloyal” is a ______ prefix.
A. reversative B. negative
C. pejorative D. locative ( )
7. The word “dorm” is formed by clipping the ______.
A. back of a phrase B. front of a word
C. back of a word D. front of a phrase ( )
8. The overwhelming majority of blends are ______.
A. nouns B. adverbs
C. verbs D. adjectives ( )
9. Words are but symbols, many of which have meaning only when they have acquired ______.
A. motivation B. reference
C. concepts D. association ( )
10. The status of words either as superordinate or subordinate is ______ to other words.
A. stable B. fixed
C. consistent D. relative ( )
11. The meaning of “lip” in “the lip of a wound” has experienced _____.
A. associated transfer B. degradation
C. extension D. elevation ( )
12. Linguistic context may cover the following except ______.
A. a paragraph B. participants
C. a whole chapter D. the entire book ( )
13. Ambiguity arises due to the following except ______.
A. homonymy B. polysemy
C. synonymy D. structure ( )
14. In the idiom “from cradle to grave”, ______ is used.
A. personification B. metaphor
C. synecdoche D. metonymy ( )
15. Theoretically, a/an ______ dictionary is a complete record of all the words in use.
A. desk B. unabridged
C. pocket D. specialized ( )
II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions given in the course book. (15%)
1. Norwegian, Icelandic._______________ and Swedish are generally known as Scandinavian languages.
2. English words may fall into content words and functional words by ____________.
3. Now people generally refer to ___________________ as Old English.
4. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: creation, __________ change and borrowing.
5. Pronouns and __________ enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but are semantically monosemous and have limited productivity and collocability.
6. Old English was a highly _________________ language like modern German.
7. Blending is the formation of new words by combining ________________ of two words or a word plus a part of another word.
8. Semantic motivation explains the connection between the _______________ sense and figurative sense of the word.
9. Synonyms can be classified into two groups: __________________ synonyms and relative synonyms..
10. When we talk about context, we usually think of _________________ context, hardly aware of the non-linguistic context..
11. The more _______________ the idioms, the more fixed the structure.
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