英语词汇学试题汇编

英语词汇学试题汇编

Chapter 1 Basic Concept of Words and Vocabulary

1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. The English language is noted for its modest borrowings.

B. Loan words only refer to those borrowings in form.

C. Loan words are all unrecognizable as being foreign in origin.

D. Loan words can be grouped according to manner of borrowing.

2. The term

following reasons EXCEPT that_____.

A. it can refer to the common core of a language

B. it can refer to the total number of the words in a language

C. it can represent all the words used in a certain historical period

D. it can stand for words in a given dialect or field

3. A word is a symbol that________.

A. is used by the same speech community

B. represents something else in the world

C. is both simple and complex in nature

D. shows different ideas in different sounds

4. Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stable because they

A. are complex words.

B. are technical word

C. refer to the commonest things in life.

D. denote the most important concepts.

5. The basic word stock forms the common____of the language.

6. The relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary or____.

7．Pronouns and numerals enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but have

limited_____________

概念：jargon

Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary

1. __is considered to be a highly-inflected language.

A Old English B. Middle English

C. Early Modem English D. Late Modem English

2. The introduction of______ at the end of the'-6th century had a great

impact on the English vocabulary.

A. printing, B Christianity C. French words D. all the above

3. Though still at work today, ___can hardly compare with what it was in

the past.

A. word-formation B. borrowing C. derivation D. conversion

4. Early Modern English refers to the language spoken

A. from 1066 to 1500 B. from 1150 to 1500

C. from 1500 to 1700 D. from 1600 to 1800

5. Old English has a vocabulary of about_______words.

A. 30,000 to 40,000 B. 50,000 to 60,000

C. 70,000 to 80,000 D. 80,000 to 90,000

6. Besides French words, English also absorbed as many as 2,500 words of___ in the Middle English period.

A. Dutch origin B. Danish origin

C. Latin origin D. Greek origin

概念：Germanic，Old English

简答：Is it true that archaic and obsolete words in English will remain

for ever out of use?

Chapter 3 Word Formation I

1. A morpheme that can stand alone as a word is thought to be----- .

A. affixational B. derivational C. free D. bound

2. Affixes added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships

are known as____

A. bound roots B. free morphemes

C. inflectional morphemes D. derivational affixes

3. ______are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate

words.

A. Roots B. Stems C. Affixes D, Compounds

4. Bound morphemes include two types: bound root and____

5. Almost all affixes are_____________ morphemes because few can be used

as independent words.

概念：morphs，allomorph，morpheme

简答：1。What is the difference between partial and full conversion?

Explain with two examples.

2．How do you distinguish inflectional affixes and derivational affixes?

Chapter 4 Word Formation II

1. Which of the following is a prefix of time and order?

A. extra- B. pro- C. re- D. semi-

2. Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?

A. Dorm B. motel C. Gent

简答：How would you explain the difference between back formation and

suffixation? Give example to illustrate your point.

分析：Analyze the morphological structures of the following words and

point out the types of the morphemes.__ unbearable, international, ex-prisoner.

Chapter 5 Word Meaning

1. The relationship between the linguistic sign and a referent is___

A. conventional B. non-conventional C. concrete D. specific

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Every word has reference.

B Every word has sense.

C. Every word is semantically motivated.

D. Every word is conceptually motivated.

3. The relationship between words and things in the world is established

by means of_____

A reference B. sense C. concept D. meaning

4. Which of the following statements is Not true?

A. Reference is the relationship between language and the world.

B. The relationship between a word and its referent is arbitrary.

C. Concept is universal to all men alike.

D. Sense denotes the relationships outside the language.

5. The word

A. onomatopoeically motivated B. morphologically motivated

C. semantically motivated D. etymologically motivated

6. Conceptual meaning is also known as _______meaning.

7. _________meaning refers to the part of speech, tenses of verbs, etc.

概念：semantic motivation，colocative meaning

简答：What is collocative meaning? Give one example to illustrate your

point.

分析：The 'pen' is mightier than the 'sword'.

Explain what 'pen' and 'sword' mean respectively using the theory of

motivation,

Chapter 6 Sense Relations and Semantic Field

1. The way to define an antonym is based on___.

A. contradiction B. contrariness C oppositeness D. relativeness

2. According to the degree of similarity, homonyms can be classified

into____.

A. perfect homonyms B. homonyms C. homophones D. all the above

3. The fact that the whole vocabulary can be divided up into fields can

be exemplified by-----

A Roger's Thesaurus B. Concise Oxford Dictionary

C. New Webster's Dictionary D. Co-build Dictionary

4. Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects

of____.

A. humor B. sarcasm C. ridicule D. all the above

5．Antonyms are classified on the basis of

概念：synonym

简答：what's the fundamental difference between radiation and

concatenation? Illustrate your point

分析：1。Comment on the following pairs of sentences in terms of

subordinates and superordinates.

a. The girl got a book in the university.

b. The girl borrowed a dictionary from the department.

2. Comment on the following pairs of sentences in terms of superordinates

and subordinates.

a. The man said he would come to our school next week.

b. The visiting scholar said he would visit our university next Monday.

Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning

1. Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example:

A. ad for

C. fond for

2. Degradation can be illustrated by the following example

A. lewd →ignorant B. silly → foolish

C. last →pleasure D. knave → boy

3. The four major modes of semantic change are____.

A. extension, narrowing, elevation and degradation

B. extension, generalization, elevation and degradation

C. extension, narrowing, specialization and degradation

D. extension, elevation, amelioration and degradation

4. The degraded meaning

its old meaning_____

5. The word ______ has the old meaning ' servant

6．The opposite of semantic elevation in meaning change is called________

概念：pejoration，transfer

Chapter 8 Meaning and Context

1. Context _____ meaning.

A. explains B. interprets C. defines D all the above

2. It is a general belief that the meaning does not exist in the word itself,

but it rather spreads over___.

A. the reader's interpretation B. the neighboring words

C. the writer's intention D. the etymology of the word

3. The words which occur before or after a word and may affect its meaning

form___ .

A. physical context B. grammatical context

C. lexical context D. linguistic context

4.

provided in the context is____

A. definition B. explanation C. example D. hyponymy

5. We can work out the meaning of “heliocentric” and “geocentric”

according to

A. morphological structure B. relevant details

C. grammatical structure D. physical context

5. What causes the ambiguity of the sentence

Janet

A. Vocabulary. B. Situation. C. Structure. D. None of the above.

6. Grammatical context refers to_____in which a word is used.

A. vocabulary B. grammar

C. semantic pattern D. syntactic structure

6. When a word with more than one meaning is used in unclear context, it

creates___

简答：What is the role of context?

分析：Study the following sentence, paying special attention to the words

in italics. If you find anything wrong, please explain why and then improve

the sentence. The police were ordered to stop drinking about

midnight.

Chapter 9 English Idioms

1.Idioms in the course book are used in a___.

A. broad sense B. narrow sense C. figurative sense D. special

sense

2. Structural stability means the structure of an idiom is generally____ .

A. movable B. unstable

c. unchangeable D. ununderstandable

3. Sentence idioms can be divided into___

A. declarative, and imperative B. interrogative and

exclamative

C. verbal and adverbial D both A and B

4. The idiom

A. simile B. metaphor C. metonymy D. personification

5. An idiom differs from a free phrase in that the former is____and the

latter is not.

A. structurally changeable B. semantically analyzable

C. structurally fixed D. easily understood

6. The use of one name for that of another associated with it is

rhetorically called___

A. synecdoche B. metonymy C. substitution D. metaphor

7. Idioms adjectival in nature function as____.

A. adjectives B. attributes C. modifiers D. words

8. In the idiom 'in good feather', we change 'good' into 'high, full'

without changing meaning. This change of constituent is known as___

A. addition B. replacement

C. position-shifting D. variation

9．The same idiom may show_____differences when it is used in different

meanings including affective meaning.

概念：variation of an idiom，idioms nominal in nature

简答：1。What are the stylistic features of idioms?

2．What is dismembering?

分析：Read the extract, pick out the idioms and explain their meanings.

Then rewrite the extract in standard non-figurative language.

Sam is getting on, too. His hair is pepper and salt, but he knows how to

make up for lost time by taking it easy. Chapter 10 English Dictionary

1. Which of the following dictionaries is not a specialized dictionary?

A. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

B. Chamber's Encyclopedic English Dictionary

C. Longman Dictionary. of Phrasal Verbs

D. Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms

2. CCELD is distinctive for its _______________________

A. clear grammar codes B. language notes

C. usage notes D. extra columns

3. The headword 0r entries are defined in the same language in a

_____dictionary.

4．LDCE is a_________________dictionary.

概念：dictionary，specialized dictionary，

搭配：

1. Match the words 0r expressions in column A with those in column B

according to 1)sense relations，2)types 0f context，and 3)modes of word

—meaning changes．(10％)

( ) 21. difference in connotation A. fond (from

( ) 22. perfect homonym B. homely/domestic

( ) 23. degradation C. date; date ~

( ) 24. transfer D. diseasing (from

( ) 25. elevation E. fabulous (from

( ) 26. narrowing F journal (from

( ) 27. extension G. silly (from

( ) 28. generalization H. pitiful (from

( ) 29. grammatical context I. It was a nice ball.

( ) 30. lexical context J. Visiting aunts can be boring.

2. Match the words in column A with those in column B

according to 1)rhetorical feature of the idioms; 2)sense

relations；3)assimilation degree；14)characteristics of the

basic word stock and 5)motivation．(10％)

A B

21. reiteration ( ) A. high and low

22. repetition ( ) B. pick and choose

23. juxtaposition ( ) C. face to face

24. perfect homonym ( ) D. Failure is the mother of

success.

25. personification, ( ) E. hiss

26 portus ( ) F. bear, bear

27. come ( ) G. twitter

28.heart ( ) J. heart and soul

29. birds ( ) I port

30. snakes ( ) J. heart and soul

3. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B

according to 1) types of meaning changes;2)types of meaning;3)Language

branches and 4)features of idioms.

(lO%)

A B

21. grammatical meaning ( ) A. Scottish

22. reading-lamp ( ) B, neither fish, flesh, nor

fowl

23. pen ( ) C. morphologically motivated

24. alliteration ( ) D. head of a state

25. difference in connotation ( ) E. answer/respond

26. elevation ( ) F. etymologically motivated

27. degradation ( ) G. garage ( a place for

storing cars)

28. narrowing ( ) H. thing (any object or

event)

29. extension ( ) I. part of speech

30. Celtic ( ) J. knave (a dishonest person)

1. Study the following words and expressions and identify 1)types of word

formation, 2) types of affixes, 3) types of dictionaries, and 4) the type

of idiom (10%)

LDCE

Deadline

-ize, -en, -ate

an affix that indicates grammatical relationships

VOA

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

CED

telephone → phone

fly in the ointment

hostess

2．Study thefollowing words and expressions and identify 1) types of

context clues; 2) types of word formation; 3)types of word-meaning

changes and 4)rhetorical features of idioms. (10%)

making a restatement of a new word or concept in familiar words

sitcom

the usual amenities such as a pub, a post office and a school

from cradle to grave

might and main

fax

disobey, impolite,

hussy:

disease:

fond:

3．Study the following words and expressions and identify 1)

types of bound morphemes underlined;2) types of word

formation; 3) types of meaning and 4) types of meaning oJ

idioms.(lO%)

heart and soul

father---male parent

mother--female parent

city-bred

lip-reading to lip-read

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