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1、1 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 ( ) 2. There was _ agreement between sound and form in
2、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
3、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.
4、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. T
5、he 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 th
6、e following except _. A. a paragraph B. participants C. a whole chapter D. the entire book ( ) 精品p d f 资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 7 页 - - - - - - - - - - 2 13. Ambiguity arises due to the following except _. A. homonymy B. polysemy C. synonymy D.
7、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 w
8、ith 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
9、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 wo
10、rds 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 thin
11、k of _ context, hardly aware of the non-linguistic context. 11. The more _ the idioms, the more fixed the structure. 12. Changes of word meaning are due to _ factors and extra-linguistic factors. 13. Synonyms may differ in the range and _ of meaning. 14. The meaning of a word may be influenced by th
12、e _ in which it occurs. This is called grammatical context. 15. So far as the language is concerned, Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs is regarded as a _ dictionary. III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and then put in the brackets the letter “T” if the statement is true
13、or “F” if it is false. (15%) 1. Prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, numerals and articles all belong to functional words. ( ) 2. With the development of the language, more and more differences arose between sound and form. ( ) 3. The chief function of suffixes is to change the meanings of stems. (
14、 ) 4. There is no free morpheme in the word “prediction”. ( ) 精品p d f 资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 7 页 - - - - - - - - - - 3 5. There are many words which have both the same conceptual meaning and the same stylistic meaning. ( ) 6. The words such as
15、 BBC, VOA, NATO and UFO are initialisms. ( ) 7. Grammatical meaning of a word becomes important only when it is used in actual context. ( ) 8. Such words as “miniskirt” and “reading-lamp” are regarded as morphologically motivated words. ( ) 9. Radiation describes a semantic process where each of the
16、 later meanings is related only to the preceding one like chains. ( ) 10. The ambiguity of the sentence “I saw her duck,” is thought to be caused by inadequate grammatical context. ( ) 11. Extra-linguistic context can exercise greater influence on the meanings of words than we realize. ( ) 12. In the idioms, such as “scream and shout”, “pick and choose” and “odds and ends”, alliteration is used. ( ) 13. Idioms are expressions which are easily understandable from the literal meanings of individua
