12英语词汇学试卷

Part I (2’*15=30’) (25 minutes)

Directions: 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. 1. The vocabulary of a language is most ____ as it undergoes constant changes both in form and content.

A. unbalanced B. unstable C. unhinged D. undoubted 2. The word “modernizations” comprises ____morphemes. A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

3. In the sentence “He fathered nine children”, the word “father” is an example of conversion ____.

A. between noun and adjective B. between noun and verb C. between verb and adjective D. none of the above 4. “NASA” is an example of ____.

A. initialism B. acronym C. derivation D. compounding 5. In the word “maltreatment”, “mal” is a ____ prefix.

A. negative B. reversative C. pejorative D. locative 6. Which of the following is NOT considered as “word meaning”? A. Reference. B. Concept. C. Sense. D. Coherence.

7. In the sentence “Everyone arrived late, except Tom”, there are_____ content words.

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 8. The word “babysit” is formed through_______

A. Blending B. Compounding C. Back-formation D. Clipping

9. The idiom “to make up a purse”, meaning “to raise money”, is an example of _____.

A. simile B. synecdoche C. euphemism D. metonymy 10. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____.

A. happier B. hostess C. confused D. interesting

11. “Railway” and “railroad” are synonymous in meaning, but they derive from different

________.

A. regional dialects B. styles C. motivations D. etymological sources 12. The word “crack” is ____motivated.

A. onomatopoeically B. etymologically C. semantically D. morphologically

13. Which of the following is a semantic feature that differentiates “father” from “mother”?

A. [parent] B. [adult] C. [male] D. [married] 14. In some cases, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the person who uses it. This is

called ____context.

A. non-linguistic B. lexical C. grammatical D. cultural 15. The idiom “need is the mother of invention” is a ____ as far as figures of speech are

concerned.

A. simile B. metaphor C. metonymy D. personification Part II (1’*10=10’) (15 minutes)

Directions: Judge whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false.

1. English, Scottish and Welsh belong to the same language family and have the same

origin though they are spoken by different groups of people in Britain. 2. The sense of a word is the same as what the word refers to. 3. An allomorph is a variant of the same morpheme.

4. Componential Analysis is an important way to analyze the morphological structure of

a word.

5. Bound morphemes refer to those that can stand alone in a sentence. 6. All idioms are collocations of some kind.

7. Blending is a way of word formation by combining a part of a word with that of

another taken from the original ones.

8. Every word has a referent in the real objective world. 9. Employer and employee are converse antonyms.

10. “Birds of a feather flock together” is an idiom which is an adverbial in nature. Part III (2’*5=10’) (10 minutes)

Directions: Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to what you have learned.

1. Prefixes do not generally change the _______ of the stems, but only modify or

change their meaning.

2. ________, also known as generalization, is a means of the widening of meaning of a

word.

3. The English alphabet was adopted from the ________, and it does not have a separate

letter to represent each sound in the language.

4. The sentence “the police are ordered to stop drinking at midnight” causes confusion

because it gives rise to _________.

5. __________ are words or forms that were once in common use but now restricted

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only to specialized or limited use.

Part IV (4’*5=20’) (20 minutes)

Directions: Define the following terms and explain each one with examples. 1. stem

2. allomorph 3. conversion

4. gradable antonym 5. collocative meaning

Part V (10’*3=30’) (30 minutes)

Directions: Illustrate your points with typical examples when necessary.

1. What are the differences between gradable and complementary antonyms?

2. Study the following sentences, identify the meaning of italicized word and then

explain why they are different in meaning.

a) The Workers’ Union continued to seek dialogue with the authorities. b) Their dialogue was interrupted by the riot out on the street. c) The plot is fascinating, but the dialogue needs improvement.

3. What are the major characteristics of idiom? Illustrate your points with examples.

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