湖南城市学院英语词汇学期末复习题

英语词汇学-模板试题

一、单项选择题（共40小题,共100分）

第1 题：According to the degree of similarity, homonyms can be classified into ( )

A. perfect homonyms

B. homonyms

C. homophones

D. all the above

第2 题：Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example ( )

A. ad for “advertisement”

B. dish for “food"

C. fond for “affectionate”

D. an editorial for “an editorial article"

第3 题：It is a general belief that the meaning does not exist in the word itself, but it rather spreads over ( )

A. the reader’s interpretation

B. the neighbouring words

C. the writer's intention

D. the etymology of the word

第4 题：Which of the following is a prefix of time and order?

A. extra-

B. pro-

C. re-

D. semi-

第5 题：Which of the following dictionaries is not a specialized dictionary?

A. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

B. Chamber's Encyclopedic English Dictionary

C. Longmont Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs

D. Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms

第6 题：Which of the following statements is Not true?

A. Reference is the relationship between language and the world.

B. The relationship between a word and its referent is arbitrary.

C. Concept is universal to all men alike.

D. Sense denotes the relationships outside the language.

第7 题：The words which occur before or after a word and may affect its meaning form ( )

A. physical context

B. grammatical context

C. lexical context

D. linguistic context

第8 题："Smith is an architect. He designed World Trade Center. "The clue provided in the context is ( )

A. definition

B. explanation

C. example

D. hyponym

第9 题：The term "vocabulary" is used in different ways because of all the following reasons EXCEPT that ( )

A. it can refer to the common core of a language

B. it can refer to the total number of the words in a language

C. it can represent all the words used in a certain historical period

D. it can stand for words in given dialect or field

第10 题：The idiom "a dark horse" is a ( )

A. simile

B. metaphor

C. metonymy

D. personification

第11 题：An idiom differs from a free phrase in that the former is ( ) and the latter is not.

A. structurally changeable

B. semantically analyzable

C. structurally fixed

D. easily understood

第12 题：We can work out the meaning of heliocentric and geocentric according to ( )

A. morphological structure

B. relevant details

C. grammatical structure

D. physical context

第13 题：What causes the ambiguity of the sentence ”I like Mary better than Janet"? ( )

A. Vocabulary

B. Situation

C. Structure

D. None of the above

第14 题：Affixes added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as ( )

A. bound roots

B. free morphemes

C. inflectional morphemes

D. derivational affixes

第15 题：The pronunciation has changed （ ）spelling over the years.

A. more slowly than

B. As quickly as

C. more rapidly than

D. Not so quickly as

第16 题：Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by （ ）.

A. use frequency

B. notion

C. origin

D. sound

第17 题：Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT（ ）.

A. green revolution

B. fast food

C. moon walk

D. space shuttle

第18 题：Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new （ ） to meet the new need.

A. form

B. meaning

C. look

D. pronunciation

第19 题：Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American English “fall” means （ ）in British English.

A. four

B. fell

C. for

D. autumn

第20 题：The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT （ ）.

A. /t/

B. /g/

C. /p/

D. /k/

第21 题：There are （ ）free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

第22 题：The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT （ ）.

A. works

B. prewar

C. postwar

D. bloody

第23 题：30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through （ ）.

A. compounding

B. affixation

C. conversion

D. shortening

第24 题：“BBC” is formed in the way of （ ）.

A. acronymy

B. clipping

C. back-formation

D. prefixation

第25 题：The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT （ ）.

A. grammatical meaning

B. conceptual meaning

C. associative meaning

D. literal meaning

第26 题：By （ ） motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.

A. onomatopoeic

B. morphological

C. semantic

D. etymological

第27 题：（ ） is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.

A. Reference

B. Concept

C. Sense

D. Motivation

第28 题：Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of （ ）.

A. word formation

B. word meaning

C. meaning change

D. Sense relations

第29 题：The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas the first is archaic, EXCEPT （ ）.

A. ire/anger

B. rich/wealthy

C. forlorn/distressed

D. bliss/happiness

第30 题：Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words were used in different（ ）from what they have now in dictionaries.

A. senses

B. Forms

C. dialects

D. Terms