《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                    (  )
understandable
2. 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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