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1、1、This story is a _ to divert the public attention away from the issue.1. blue moon2. black horse3. red herring 4. green hand2、Come on! Cheer up! Dont just sit here as stiff as a _.1. poker 2. patient3. queen4. king3、Overjoyed to see his long-lost friend, Jimmy _ a toast to the health of them all.1.
2、 suggested2. spoke3. proposed 4. raised4、You were not seriously injured. Dont make a _ out of a _.1. mountain, molehill 2. mount, molehill3. hill, molehill4. molehill, mountain5、The figure of speech employed in “The past is a bucket of ashes” is _.1. euphemism2. litotes3. irony4. metaphor 6、Our work
3、 calls for mutual support. We shouldnt _ each others efforts.1. active2. interact3. counteract 4. activate7、They all thought that she and her boyfriend were _.1. birds of a kind2. birds of a type3. birds of a breed4. birds of a feather 8、After a meal in a restaurant, you ask the waiter for the _.1.
4、note2. receipt3. bill 4. menu9、Exercise seems to benefit the brain power of the healthy and the sick, the young and the old _.1. alike 2. included3. alive4. through10、Words with such clusters as “ch”, “ph”, “pn”, “rh” as in chasm, phone, pneumatic and rhetoric are most probably of _ origin.1. German
5、2. Chinese3. Greek4. Latin 11、I waited for Tom for ages, but he didnt _.1. turn in2. turn up 3. turn on4. turn out12、He was _ of having asked such a silly question.1. miserable2. guilty3. sorry4. ashamed 13、I took only a _ of beans with me and left.1. hand2. handful 3. handy4. handed14、1. According
6、to the divine-source theory, language _.1. the result of our ancestors imitating natural sounds around them2. originated from human physiological adaptation3. originated from the link between physical gestures and orally produced sounds4. is given by God 15、Choked traffic has been a(n) _ to urban tr
7、ansportation system.1. archenemy 2. main enemy3. major enemy4. primary enemy16、Flying in an airplane was once thought to be an impossible _.1. task 2. problem3. promise4. profession17、No new ideas _ from the meeting.1. merged2. submerged3. emerged 4. immerged18、The scientists realized it would be to
8、o _ to ship all people in one boat because it was fragile.1. dangerous2. risky 3. daring4. bold19、I took the children to the zoo to _ for the party they missed yesterday.1. make away2. make up 3. make it4. make of20、The Old English word stn means _ in modern English.1. stalig2. stole3. stain4. stone
9、 21、In “Elizabeth could hear voices through the open door”, the word door means _.1. the moveable barrier in the entrance to a building, room, cupboard, car, etc. 2. the channel to a certain place3. None of the above4. the panel board22、Communication is the process of _ a message from a source to an
10、 audience via a channel.1. transforming2. transmitting 3. switching4. submitting23、Which of the following usually appears in poems？_1. nag 2. steed3. horse4. gee-gee24、According to _, human language is the result of evolution.1. the divine-source theory2. the oral-gestural theory3. the glossogenetic
11、 theory 4. the natural-sound theory25、Among the four prefixes in the following, _ is NOT a quantity prefix.1. an- 2. di-3. multi-4. mono-判断题判断题26、In the Middle English period, English lost most of its inflections.1.A. 2.B.27、Human languages are derived from the natural sounds around and are thus ono
12、matopoeic in nature.1.A.2.B. 28、There exists a natural relation between the sound and meaning of a word.1.A.2.B. 29、Words can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence.1.A. 2.B.30、Farewell is shortened from Fare thee well.1.A. 2.B.31、With the aid of jargons, people of cer
13、tain field can communicate effectively and economically.1.A. 2.B.32、There is no principled clear-cut between the lexicon of a language and its grammar.1.A. 2.B.33、The synchronic approach to word meaning focuses on the semantic changes over time.1.A.2.B. 34、In the sentence, “I presume that you are Dr
14、. Livingstone”, presume can be replaced by “suppose”.1.A. 2.B.35、The meaning of words can be equated with what they refer to in the real world.1.A.2.B. 36、Words loved, cherished, fainted and swirled all share the same grammatical meaning, i.e., “past tense”.1.A. 2.B.37、“sense”, as a term in semantic
15、s, denotes the relationship between words within language.1.A. 2.B.38、Absolute synonyms are not easy to found in any language.1.A. 2.B.39、In standard AmE, the letter r is pronounced wherever it appears as in bar, board, park, etc.1.A. 2.B.40、Lexicology is focused exclusively on lexical words or contents words.1.A.2.B. 41、Man is a word, a root, a stem and a free morpheme as well.1.A. 2.B.42、There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to.1.A. 2.B.43、webin
