?英語詞匯學(xué)2015年10月真題試題(00832)
摘要:英語詞匯學(xué)2015年10月真題試題及答案解析(00832),本試卷共51個(gè)小題,總共100分。
英語詞匯學(xué)2015年10月真題試題及答案解析(00832)
英語詞匯學(xué)2015年10月真題試題及答案解析(00832),本試卷共51個(gè)小題,總共100分。
一、單項(xiàng)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 does NOT belong to the characteristics of the basic word stock?
A.All national character.
B.Productivity.
C.Stability.
D.Terminology.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency.
B.Words may fall into content words and functional words by notion.
C.Words may fall into loan-words and notional words by the degree of assimilation.
D.Words may fall into native words and borrowed words by origin.
3.Which of the following is NOT true about the description of the relationship between sound and meaning?
A.There is intrinsic relationship between sound and meaning.
B.The symbolic connection of a sound and its meaning is almost always arbitrary.
C.The relationship between sound and meaning is conventional.
D.In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds.
4.In the Western set,____is the modern language derived from Hellenic.
A.Latin
B.Greek
C.Russian
D.Spanish
5.Which of the following statements is NOT true about the English vocabulary?
A.English is more closely related to German than French.
B.Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
C.Modern English is considered to be an analytic language.
D.In Early Middle English period, English, Latin and Celtic existed side by side.
6.From the historical overview of the English vocabulary, the period of Old English is____.
A.from 55 B.C.to 410
B.from 450 to 1150
C.from 1150 to 1500
D.from 1500, then up to now
7.Which of the following words does NOT have inflectional affixes?
A.Happier.
B.Worker.
C.Harder.
D.Taller.
8.The word “idealistic” comprises____morpheme(s).
A.1
B.2
C.3
D.4
9.Which of the following words is NOT a stem?
A.Nation.
B.National.
C.International.
D.Internationalists.
10.The word “sandwich” now denotes a popular fast food.It originates from John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 18th century. This example shows one of the sources of English vocabulary is____.
A.compound
B.proper nouns
C.back-formation
D.conversion
11.Which of the following words is the example of blending?
A.Motel.
B.Sandwich.
C.Flu.
D.AIDS.
12.Which of the following words is NOT a noun compound?
A.Moon walk.
B.Ten-storey.
C.Outbreak.
D.Up-bringing.
13.The meanings of many words often relate directly to their origins. In other words the history of the word explains the meaning of the word. This is called____.
A.onomatopoeic motivation
B.morphological motivation
C.semantic motivation
D.etymological motivation
14.a) They chucked a stone at the cops, and then did a bunk with the loot,b) After casting a stone at the police, they absconded with the money.The above two sentences have the same conceptual meaning, but differ in____meaning.
A.connotative
B.affective
C.stylistic
D.collocative
15.____meaning indicates the speaker"s attitude towards the person or thing in questions.
A.Conceptual
B.Stylistic
C.Affective
D.Denotative
16.Words identical both in sound and spelling, but different in meaning are____.
A.homographs
B.homophones
C.perfect homonyms
D.hyponyms
17.Words “change”,“alter” and “vary” are similar in denotation,but embrace different shades of meaning. They are____.
A.absolute synonyms
B.complete synonyms
C.full synonyms
D.relative synonyms
18.Words like “red, orange, yellow, green,black,etc.” make up the____of “colours”.
A.synonyms
B.hyponyms
C.sense relations
D.semantic field
19.Vocabulary is the most unstable element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and____.
A.pronunciation
B.content
C.spelling
D.use
20.The meaning of the word “criticize” has changed from “appraise” to “find fault with”. Such a change is called____.
A.elevation
B.generalization
C.extension
D.degradation
21.The word “meat” originally meant “food”,but now has come to mean “flesh of animals”. This is an example to illustrate____of meaning.
A.generalization
B.narrowing
C.degradation
D.elevation
22.In grammatical context, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the____ in which it occurs.
A.structure
B.sentence
C.phrase
D.clause
23.The word “do” means “brush” in “do one’s teeth”,while it means “arrange” in “do the flowers”.The above example shows that____affects the meaning of a word.
A.lexical context
B.grammatical context
C.non-linguistic context
D.structural context
24.Which of the following is NOT one of the major functions of context?
A.Elimination of ambiguity.
B.Indication of referents.
C.Formation of ambiguity.
D.Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.
25.Which of the following is NOT one of the variations of idioms?
A.Repetition.
B.Dismembering,
C.Addition.
D.Shortening.
26.“Through thick and thin” is a(n)____.
A.verbal idiom in nature
B.nominal idiom in nature
C.sentence idiom
D.adverbial idiom in nature
27.There is a____in the idiom “by hook and by crook” as far as rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.
A.simile
B.reiteration
C.repetition
D.rhyme
28.Webster"s Third New International Dictionary is the best-known____dictionary.
A.unabridged
B.desk
C.pocket
D.encyclopedic
29.When we choose a dictionary, we should pay attention to the following aspects EXCEPT____.
A.unabridged or abridged
B.British or American
C.early or late
D.monolingual or bilingual
30.Which of the following is NOT true about a Chines e-English Dictionary (Revised Edition) (CED) (1995)?
A.The new edition cut off the previous alphabetical order of entries.
B.The new edition revised some old entries.
C.The new edition has more single character entries and more multi-character entries,
D.The dictionary boasts of the quality of the English equivalents.
二、填空題
Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (15%)
11.Archaisms are words no longer____in use or obsolete in use.
12.Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: creation, semantic____and borrowing.
13.Most morphemes are realized by____morphs like bird, tree, green, etc.Words of this kind are called monomorphemic words.
14."A green hand" means an “inexperienced person”,not “a hand that is green in color”. This example illustrates that compounds are different from free phrases in____unity.
15.Tables, men and potatoes are all plural nouns, so we can say they have the same____meaning.
16.The development of word-meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses, traditionally known as____and concatenation.
17.The change of the meaning in the word “butcher”,which originally denoted “one who kills goats”,but has come to mean “one who kills animals” reflects____in the sense of word-meaning change.
18.Linguistic context can be subdivided into____context and grammatical context.
19.Idioms consist of set phrases and short____, which are peculiar to the language in question and loaded with the native cultures and ideas.
110.Bilingual dictionaries are written in____languages.
三、名詞解釋
Define the following terms. (15%)
21.creation
22.clipping
23.antonymy
24.extra-linguistic context
25.idioms nominal in nature
四、簡(jiǎn)答題
Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below. (20%)
31.What is the difference between root and stem?
32.Please explain the difference between the following two examples from the viewpoint of word formation.(1)single ( adjective) —> single (verb) (2)simple ( adjective) —>simplify (verb)
33.What are the major sources of English synonyms?
34.What does the underlined word mean and what contextual clue is used in the following sentence?"It is undesirable to write with too many (parentheses), a pair of brackets round words or phrases.”
五、分析題
Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. (20%)
41.Take “The dog is chasing a cat” as an example to explain its grammatical meaning.
42.Comment on the following piece of discourse in terms of superordinates and subordinates, so far as hyponymy is concerned."There was a fine rocking-chair that his father used to sit in, a desk where he wrote letters,a nest of small tables and a dark, imposing bookcase. Now all this furniture was to be sold, and with it his own past."
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