英语词汇学专升本

1、平顶山学院补考课程：英语词汇学（专升本）总时长：120分钟1.（单选题）An idiom consists of at least two words. Each has a single meaning and often functions as one word. This is called.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）semantic unitystructural stabilityrhetoricalnone of the答案：A解析：无2.（单选题）Which of the following suffixes can be used to form both nouns and

2、 adjectives?（）（本题 2.0 分）-ion.-ism.-ity.-ist.答案：D解析：无.（单选题）More often than not, functional words only have.（）（本题 2.0 分）lexical meaningassociative meaningcollocative meaninggrammatical meaning答案：D解析：无.（单选题）Linguistic context is also known as context.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）socialverballexicalphysical答案：B解析：无.（单选

3、题）According to semanticists, a word is a unit of.（）（本题 2.0 分）meaningSoundcombination of soundsGroup答案：A解析：无.（单选题）The major factors that promote the growth of modern English are（）（本题2.0分）the growth of science and technologyeconomic and political changesthe influence of other cultures and languagesall

4、 the above答案：D解析：无.（单选题）Since the beginning of this century,has become even more important for the expansion of English vocabulary.（）（本题 2.0 分）word-formationborrowingsemantic changeboth B and C答案：A解析：无.（单选题）Which of the following characteristics of the basic word stock is the mostimportant?（）（ 本题 2.

5、0 分）A. StabilityB. Collocability.Productivity.National答案：D解析：无9.（单选题）The sentence “I lost Betty s picture. is ambiguous due to.（）（ 本 题2.0分）grammaticalpolysemyantonymyhyponymy答案：B解析：无10.（单选题）In the sentence “ An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a sou Wester usually brin

6、gs rain. ” , the meaning of sou wester ” can be inferred from the clue of.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）relevantsynonymyantonymyD. hyponymy答案：C解析：无.（单选题）The idiom“toss and turn “ is a（n）as far as rhetorical features ofidioms are concerned.（）（本题2.0分）alliterationmetaphormetonymyrhyme答案：A解析：无.（单选题）Rapid growth of scien

7、ce and technology breeds such new words as thefollowing EXCEPT.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）green revolutionfastmoon walkspace shuttle答案：B解析：无.（单选题）Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new tomeet the new need.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）formmeaninglookpronunciation答案：B解析：无.（单选题）The two major factors that cause chang

8、es in meaning are.（）（本题2.0 分）historical reason and class reasonhistorical reason and psychological reasonclass reason and psychological reasonextra-linguistic factors and linguistic factors答案：D解析：无.（单选题）The fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants iswhether.（）（本题 2.0 分）they come from

9、the same sourcethey are correlated with one central meaningthey are listed under one headword in a dictionaryall the above答案：D解析：无.（单选题）Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American Englishfall means in British English.（）（本题2.0分）fourfellforautu

10、mn答案：D解析：无17.（单选题）The plural morpheme -s is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT.（）（本题 2.0 分）/t/g/p/k/答案：B解析：无18.（单选题）There are free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red,collection.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）onetwothreefour答案：C解析：无19.（单选题）Which of the following is NOT one of the types of i

11、dioms?（）（本题 2.0分）Sentence idioms.IdiomsClausal idioms.Idioms nominal in nature.答案：C解析：无.（单选题）Degradation of meaning is the opposite of.（）（本题 2.0 分）semantic transfersemantic pejorationsemantic elevationsemantic narrowing答案：C解析：无.（单选题）The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT.（）（本题 2.0分）wor

12、ksprewarpostwarbloody答案：A解析：无.（单选题）30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are producedthrough.（）（本题 2.0 分）compoundingaffixationconversionshortening答案：B解析：无.（单选题）The word motel is created by.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）compoundingclippingblendingsuffixation答案：C解析：无.（单选题）BBC is formed in the way of.（

13、）（ 本题 2.0 分）acronymyclippingback-formationprefixation答案：A解析：无.（单选题）The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT.（）（本题 2.0分）grammatical meaningconceptual meaningassociative meaningliteral meaning答案：D解析：无.（单选题）By motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related toits origin.（）（ 本题 2.0 分

14、）onomatopoeicmorphologicalsemanticetymological答案：D解析：无.（单选题）is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world inthe human mind.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）ReferenceConceptSenseMotivation答案：B解析：无.（单选题）Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered anintegral part of.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）wor

15、d formationword meaningmeaning changeSense relations答案：D解析：无.（单选题）When a word is first coined, it is always.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）semanticonomatopoeicmonosemicpolysemic答案：C解析：无.（单选题）The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second isstandard in usage whereas the first is archaic, EXCEPT.（）（ 本题

16、2.0 分）ire/angerrich/wealthyforlorn/distressedbliss/happiness答案：B解析：无.（单选题）Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writingsbecause many of his words were used in different from what they have nowin dictionaries.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）A.sensesFormsdialectsTerms答案：A解析：无.（单选题）The following are al

17、l variations of idioms, EXCEPT.（）（本题 2.0 分）replacementadditionshorteningrepetition答案：D解析：无.（单选题）Generally speaking, a dictionary will cover the following contentEXCEPT.（）（本题 2.0 分）A. spellingsyntactical usagepronunciationdefinition答案：B解析：无.(单选题)As a general Chinese-English dictionary,is the most com

18、pleteand up-to-date, most elaborately treated one.()(本题 2.0 分)A Chinese-English Dictionary (1995)Oxford Advanced Learner s Dictionary of Current English with ChineseTranslationA New English-Chinese DictionaryLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese Translation答案：A解析：无.(单选题)Collins COB

19、UILD English Usage (1992), is a(n)dictionary.()(本题2.0 分)unabridgeddeskspecializedD. encyclopedic答案：C解析：无36.（单选题）There are major classes of compounds.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）twoforthreefive答案：C解析：无.（单选题）Which of the following statements is NOT true?（）（本题 2.0 分）Connotative meaning refers to associations suggeste

20、d by the conceptual meaning.Stylistic meaning accounts for the formality of the word concerned.Affective meaning is universal to all men alike.Denotative meaning can always be found in the dictionary.答案：C解析：无.（单选题）After the invading Germanic tribes settled down in Britain, their language almost tota

21、lly blotted out.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）A. OldMiddleAnglo-SaxonCeltic答案：D解析：无.（单选题）The idiom Jack of all trades results from.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）additionposition-shiftingdismemberingshortening答案：D解析：无.（单选题）are those that cannot occur as separate words without addingother morphemes.（）（ 本题 2.0 分）Free rootsFree morpheme

22、sBound morphemesMeaningful units答案：C解析：无.（填空题）The process by which a word of wide meaning acquires a specialized sense is called of meaning.（ 本题 2.0 分）答案：（1） narrowing;得分点：未设置解析：无.（填空题）The context clue used in the sentence“ Many United Nations employe.es are polyglots. Ms. Mary, for example, speaks

23、five languages is题2.0分）答案：（1） example;得分点：未设置解析：无.（填空题）A word is a free form of a language that has a given sound andmeaning and syntactic function.（ 本题 2.0 分）答案:（1） minimal;得分点：未设置解析：无.（填空题）In Old English period, the introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary. It brought many new ideas and customs, and al