?英語詞匯學(xué)2016年4月真題試題（00832）

英語詞匯學(xué)2016年4月真題試題及答案解析（00832）

英語詞匯學(xué)2016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.Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and____of words.

A.sounds
B.meanings
C.Forms
D.spellings

2.The definition of a word comprises the following points EXCEPT____.

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

3.English words may fall into content words and functional words by____.

A.notion
B.use frequency
C.origin
D.form

4.The Indo-European is made up of most of the languages of the following areas EXCEPT____.

A.Europe
B.the Mediterranean
C.the Near East
D.India

5.In the 9th century, England was invaded by Norwegian and Danish Vikings and many____words came into the English language.

A.Celtic
B.Latin
C.Scandinavian
D.Greek

6.New words or expressions like astrobiology, earthrise, open heart surgery come into present-day English vocabulary due to____.

A.the growth of globalization
B.social, economic and political changes
C.rapid growth of science and technology
D.the influence of other cultures and languages

7.Root words like man, earth, anger are also called____.

A.allomorphs
B.free morphemes
C.basic words
D.bound morphemes

8.There are____morphemes in the words collection, idealistic, prisoner.

A.3
B.6
C.7
D.8

9.Which of the following is a stem in the word internationalists?

A.inter
B.nation
C.al
D.ist

10.The expansion of vocabulary in modem English depends chiefly on____.

A.borrowing
B.semantic change
C.word-formation
D.blending

11.Of the following prefixes,____is a prefix of degree.

A.un-(unwrap)
B.super- (superfreeze)
C.pseudo- (pseudo-friend)
D.anti- (anti-nuclear)

12.Which of the following words is NOT a compound?

A.honey-bee
B.without
C.clockwise
D.blueprint

13.____explains the connection between the literal sense and figurative sense of a word.

A.Onomatopoeic motivation
B.Morphological motivation
C.Semantic motivation
D.Etymological motivation

14.From much money, many books, we can see that even in the same language the same____can be expressed in different words.

A.reference
B.concept
C.motivation
D.type

15.Associative meaning comprises the following types EXCEPT____.

A.connotative meaning
B.affective meaning
C.conceptual meaning
D.collocative meaning

16.When a word is coined, it is always monosemic.But in the course of development, the same symbol must be used to express more meanings. The result is____.

A.polysemy
B.homonymy
C.synonymy
D.antonymy

17.In the sense relations, the words right and write belong to____.

A.perfect homonyms
B.homographs
C.homophones
D.homolog

18.As a result of____—one of the sources of synonyms, gain the upper hand becomes the synonym of win.

A.borrowing
B.dialects and regional English
C.figurative and euphemistic use of words
D.coincidence with idiomatic expressions

19.The word silly used to mean “happy”，but now means “foolish”. This example shows____of meaning.

A.extension
B.narrowing
C.degradation
D.transfer

20.Which of the following words has NOT undergone narrowing of meaning?

A.voyage: journey->journey by water
B.box: container made of boxwood—>any container
C.starve: die->die from hunger
D.girl: young person of either sex->female young person

21.Purse for “money”，dish for “food” are all instances of____transfer.

A.abstract
B.subjective
C.associated
D.objective

22.Many familiar words have different meanings, when they are used in different contexts. Study the following sentences carefully and decide in which sentence fix means "predicamenf".

A.Janet is in a terrible fix!
B.The drug addict was desperate fix.
C.If you bring over your bicycle, I"ll fix it for you.
D.When the radio signal comes on again,I"ll take a fix on our position.

23.He is a hard businessman.The above sentence has ambiguity due to____.

A.polysemy
B.homonymy
C.antonymy
D.grammatical structure

24.____is used as context clue in the following sentence: It"s just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors—those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as “silicon chips”.

A.Antonymy
B.Synonymy
C.Explanation
D.Word structure

25.The idiom diamond cut diamond is grammatically incorrect, for normally the verb cut should take the third person singular -s. However, we use it as it is. This shows that____.

A.many idioms are grammatically unanalysable
B.the word order of idioms cannot be inverted or changed
C.the structure of an idiom is to a large extent unchangeable
D.the constituents of an idiom cannot be deleted or added to

26.The English idiom____means “relatives or family”.

A.white elephant
B.flesh and blood
C.an apple of discord
D.fly in the ointment

27.The rhetorical device of alliteration is used in the idiom____.

A.toil and moil
B.wear and tear
C.hustle and bustle
D.bag and baggage

28.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.Monolingual dictionaries are written in one language.
B.Bilingual dictionaries involve two languages.
C.An unabridged dictionary is a shortened one.
D.Special dictionaries concentrate on a particular area of language or knowledge.

29.When you see “theatre AmE theater” in a dictionary,you can get information of____.

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

30.Which of the following is NOT the proper Chinese equivalent for its English item?

A.吃軟不吃硬--open to persuasion, but not to coercion
B.布衣素食--wear cotton clothes and eat vegetable food
C.她很會哄孩子--She has a way with children.
D.沒詞兒--be suck for an answer

二、填空題

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

11.Technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas are called ____.

12.With the Normans invading England in 1066, the Norman Conquest started a continual flow of____words into English.

13.In the words machines, harder, worked, -s, -er,-ed are called____affixes.

14.According to the____that affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into prefixation and suffixation.

15.____is the relationship between language and the world.For example, the form cat is meaningful because the language user employs it conventionally to refer to the “animal” concerned.

16.The development of word-meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses, traditionally known as____and concatenation.

17.The word computer formerly meant a “person who computes”. At present, it refers to an“electronic machine” rather than a person. This example shows the fact that it often happens a word is retained for a name though the____has changed because the referent has changed.

18.____context refers to the words that occur together with the word in question. The meaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighboring words.

19.Phrasal verbs are idioms which are composed of a____plus a prep, and/or a particle.

110.For someone who needs a dictionary by their side to check spelling, or the meaning of an occasional word from his/her reading, a____dictionary can be good.

三、名詞解釋

Define the following terms. (15%)

21.content words

22.morpheme

23.onomatopoeic motivation

24.elevation (referring to word meaning)

25.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.What does the following group of words show us as regards the main sources of new words?soy milk, family movies, telequiz, Watergate, open university

32.Group the following words into denominal nouns, deverbal nouns and de-adjectival nouns, according to the noun suffixes fixed at the end of each word.cigarette，slavery, productivity，protection, assistant，trainee, largeness，friendship

33.How policeman, constable, bobby and cop differ in the sense of connotation?

34.Explain context in a narrow sense.He was in a mood of complete euphoria, his happiness being the result of an announcement that he had won the sweepstakes.

五、分析題

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

41.Illustrate the differences between blending and clipping by taking motel, medicare, quake, flu as examples.

42.Comment on the following pair of sentences in terms of superordinates and subordinates.A)Trees surround the water near our summer place.B)Old elms surround the lake near our summer cabin.