《英语词汇学》模拟试卷(一)
I. Choose the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given brackets. (30%)
1. The minimal meaningful units in English are known as ______.
A. roots
B. morphs
C. stems
D. morphemes ( )
2. The most important of all the features of the basic word stock is ______.
A. stability .
B. productivity
C. polysemy .
D. all national character ( )
3. Old English vocabulary was essentially ______ with a number of borrowings from Latin and Scandinavian.
A. Celtic .
B. Hellenic
C. Italic .
D. Germanic . ( )
4. In modern times, ______ is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.
A. borrowing
B. backformation
C. creation
D. semantic change ( )
5. The words “motel” and “comsat” are called ______.
A. blends
B. compounds
C. acronyms
D. initialisms . ( )
6. The word “teachers” contains three morphemes, but the word “shortenings” has
______ morphemes.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five ( )
7. Reference is the relationship between language and the ______.
A. concept
B. world
C. context .
D. sense ( )
8. Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example: ______.
A. dorm for “dormitory”
B. fond for “affectionate”
C. dish for “food”
D. TV for “television”( )
9. The word “mouth” in the phrase “the mouth of a river” is regarded as a ______ motivated word.
A. morphologically
B. etymologically
C. onomatopoeically
D. semantically ( )
10. Words formed by acronymy can be divided into initialisms and acronyms depending on the ______ of the word.
A. pronunciation
B. spelling
C. function
D. meaning ( )
11. Frogs croak, but elephants ______.
A. neigh
B. squeak
C. bleat .
D. trumpet ( )
12. The antonyms “present” and “absent” are ______ terms.
A. relative
B. contrary
C. contradictory
D. graded ( )
13. The idiom “scream and shout” is a good example of ______.
A. reiteraton
B. alliteration
C. repetition
D. juxtaposition ( )
14. Ambiguity arises due to all the following except ______.
A. polysemy
B. synonymy
C. homonymy
D. structure ( )
15. The order of meanings in CCELD indicates the ______ changes of words.
A. grammatical
B. morphological
C. semantic
D. phonological ( ) II. Complete the following sentences with the proper words or expressions given in the course book. (15%)
1. A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given __________________ and meaning and syntactic function.
2. English has evolved from a ____________________ language (Old English) to the present analytic language.
3. Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as ___________________ morphemes.
4. A ________________ is known as the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words.
5. Although reference is a kind of abstraction, yet with the help of _______________ it can refer to something specific.
6. The second major language known in England was the _________________ of the Roman Legions.
7. Conceptual meaning is also known as ____________________ meaning.
8. The relationship between sound and meaning is _________________ and arbitrary.
9. Hyponymy deals with the relationship of __________________ inclusion.
10. The same word may have different ___________________ meanings as shown in “do, does, did, done, doing.”
11. Synonyms may differ in the ___________________ and intensity of meaning.
12. The word “famous” is ___________________, but the word “notorious” is derogatory.
13. Characterized by semantic unity and ______________________ stability, idioms do not allow changes as a rule.
14. Linguistic context can be subdivided into ____________________ context and grammatical context.
15. So far as the language is concerned, LDCE and CCELD published in Britain are both _____________________ dictionaries.
III．Decide whether the following statements are true or false and then put in the brackets the letter “T” if the statement is true or “F” if it is false. (15%)
1. Morphemes are abstract units, which are realized in speech by discrete units known as morphs. ( )
2. English words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency. ( )
