?英語詞匯學2018年4月真題試題（00832）

英語詞匯學2018年4月真題試題及答案解析（00832）

英語詞匯學2018年4月真題試題及答案解析（00832），本試卷共51個小題，總共100分。

一、單項選擇題

Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the definition of a word?

A.A word is a sound unity.
B.A word is a unit of meaning.
C.A word is the smallest form of a language.
D.A word is a form that can function alone in a sentence,

2. Vocabulary can refer to the total number of the words in a language, and it can stand for all the words used______ e.g. Old English vocabulary, Middle English vocabulary and Modern English vocabulary

A.in a given book
B.in a given dialect
C.by an individual person
D.in a particular historical period

3.Words like man, fire, sun have been in use for centuries. This shows the basic word stock has the characteristics of____.

A.productivity
B.polysemy
C.collocability
D.stability

4. The Indo-European language is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and____.

A.Asia
B.Africa
C.India
D.the Far East

5. In Old English period, the introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary. It brought many___ terms such as altar, amen and candle.

A.scientific
B.religious
C.educational
D.aesthetic

6. Martial arts from the Far East find their way into English vocabulary such as aikido, kungfu and black belt. These are just a few new words, but they will suffice to show______.

A.the invasion of foreign countries
B.social, economic and political changes
C.the influence of other cultures and languages
D.the rapid development of modern science and technology

7.Monomorphemic words are realized by single morphs such as______.

A.boss
B.cats
C.feet
D.trying

8. The forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function are ______.

A.allomorphs
B.affixes
C.roots
D.stems

9.Which of the following words is NOT a stem?

A.international
B.nation
C.national
D.internationalists

10.Which of the following words has a negative prefix?

A.amoral
B.devalue
C.misconduct
D.antiwar

11. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called______.

A.compounding
B.prefixation
C.conversion
D.blending

12.Which of the following words is the result from blending?

A.smog
B.dorm
C.quake
D.crybaby

13.___ accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning.

A.Reference
B.Motivation
C.Sense
D.Concept

14. Such synonymous pairs as die -pass away, quarrel- -argue are examples to show that______.

A.one can talk of the same concept in different languages
B.each pair has the same concept but collocates with different words
C.every word that has meaning has sense, but not every word has reference
D.each pair has the same concept but different socio-cultural and stylistic values

15. Which of the following words is NOT morphological motivated?

A.animal
B.hopeless
C.reading-lamp
D.greenhorn

16. Words are arbitrary symbols and independent identities so far as their______are concerned,

A.spelling and meaning
B.pronunciation and use
C.spelling and pronunciation
D.meaning and collocation

17. Which of the following is the primary meaning of the word face?

A.A surface of a thing
B.The front of the head.
C.The appearance.
D.The topography.

18.Which of the following deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion?

A.Synonymy.
B.Antonymy.
C.Polysemy.
D.Hyponymy.

19.Word- meaning changes by modes of the following EXCEPT___.

A.extension
B.expansion
C.degradation
D.elevation

20. Which of the following is NOT the extra linguistic factors that cause changes in meaning?

A.Class reason
B.Historical reason.
C.Political reason
D.Psychological reason

21. Fortuitous formerly denoted "happening by chance" and later took on the meaning "fortunate". Such change of word-meaning is caused by ______。

A.the influx of borrowings
B.psychological factors
C.historical reason
D.analogy

22. Without ______ , there is no way to determine the very sense of a word that the speaker intended to convey.

A.meaning
B.context
C.clues
D.culture

23. That the word paper means differently in "a sheet of paper", "a white paper" and "a term paper" shows that______context affects the meaning of words.

A.extra-linguistic
B.grammatical
C.semantic
D.lexical

24. Context may prove extremely valuable in guessing the of a new word。

A.meaning
B.usage
C.part of speech
D.implication

25. Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms?

A.The constituents of idioms can be replaced.
B.The word order cannot be inverted or changed.
C.Many idioms are grammatically unanalysable.
D.The constituents of an idiom cannot be deleted or added to,

26. Which of the following is an idiom verbal in nature?

A.cut and dried
B.fly in the ointment
C.call it a day
D.in clover

27. The figure of speech used in the idiom a dark horse is __.

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

28. The dictionary where the headword or entries are defined and illustrated in the same language is _____.

A.monolingual dictionaries
B.bilingual dictionaries
C.linguistic dictionaries
D.encyclopedic dictionaries

29. The main body of a dictionary is its_____of words.

A.spelling
B.pronunciation
C.definition
D.grammar

30.The following are the features of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English New Edition (1987)EXCEPT__.

A.usage notes
B.language notes
C.extra column
D.clear grammar codes

二、填空題

Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (15%)

11. By notion, words can be grouped into content words and ___words.

12. Middle English retained much fewer inflections If we say that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of_____endings.

13. The morphemes which are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word are known as__.

14. According to the positions which affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into two subclasses___ and suffixation.

15. In word meaning, the relationship between language and the word is_____ , by means of which, a speaker indicates which things in the world are being talked about.

16. Words like bank meaning both the edge of the river and an establishment for money business are called_____.

17. Vocabulary is the most unstable element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and_____.

18. Linguistic context includes_____context, where the meaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighboring words.

19. The semantic_____of idioms is reflected in the illogical relationship between the literal meaning of each word and the meaning of the idiom, as is shown in rain cats and dogs, which means "rain heavily".

110.If one wants to know whether a pair or mathematics takes a singular or plural verb, a_____dictionary is likely to supply the best answer.

三、名詞解釋

Define the following terms. (15%)

21. terminology

22.morpheme

23.conceptual meaning

24.elevation

25.true idioms

四、簡答題

Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below. (20%)

31.Through which three channels does modem English vocabulary develop?

32.Turn the phrasal verbs below into noun compounds:1) fall down2) sit in3) cry out4) hang over5) bring up .

33.Tell the difference between superordiates and subordinates, with the example words flower, lion, hammer, tool, animal and rose.

34.Explain how context clues are used in the sentence “In spite of the fact that the fishermen were wearing sou’westers, the storm was so heavy that they were wet through."

五、分析題

Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. (20%)

41. Explain the difference between full conversion and partial conversion by taking "valuables”and “the young" as examples.

42.Illustrate the differences between synonyms by analyzing the following groups of synonyms.(a) understand and comprehend(b) answer and respond(e) allow and let