英语词汇学复习题 (四)
I. Some of the following statements are true, and the others false. Mark your answer by writing T or F on your answer sheet. (10%)
1. The history of the English language begins with the conquest and settlement of what is now England by the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes from about 450 AD.
2. The allomorphs of a morpheme show a slight difference in sound and meaning.
3. The three major processes of word-formation are compounding, blending and conversion.
4. Acronyms differ from initialisms in that they are pronounced as words.
5. The denotative meaning of a word is its definition given in a dictionary.
6. Polysemy is the exception and monosemy is the rule.
7. Homonyms are words different in meaning but identical in spelling or sound.
8. When a word has several meanings, it will demand a separate antonym in each sense.
9. When we say context determines the word sense, we mean that it gives a sense to the word.
10. Idioms are usually semantically opaque.
II. The following are multiple-choice questions. Mark your answer by writing A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet. (20%)
11. The English language has vast debts. The majority of English words are borrowed from _________.
(A) Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (B) Anglo-Saxon and Celtic
(C) Latin, French and Greek (D) Hebrew, Indian and Japanese
12. “tain” in “contain” is _________.
(A) a free root (B) a bound root
(C) an inflectional affix (D) a derivational affix
13. ____________ is not a compound.
(A) Airmail (B) Headache
(C) Housekeeping (D) Telephone
14. Among the words in brackets, __________ is a noun converted from a verb.
(A) It is a good (buy). (B) Tom went (home) early.
(C) The workers (canned) apples. (D) The book is a (must) for students.
15. “TOEFL” is an example of ___________.
(A) initialism (B) blending
(C) acronym (D) clipping
16. The group of words _______ are not synonyms.
(A) “agony, pain, twinge” (B) “holy, sacred, consecrated”
(C) “rage, fury, indignation” (D) “doubt, suspect, distrust”
17. “Lend” and “borrow” form a pair of ___________.
(A) conversives (B) complementary antonyms
(C) gradable antonyms (D) marked antonyms
18. The word “silly” used to mean “blessed and happy”; now it means “foolish”. This is an example of _____ of meaning.
(A) extension (B) degeneration
(C) restriction (D) elevation
19. The group of words _______ do not make up a semantic field.
(A) “train, plate, taxi” (B) “spinach, celery, cabbage”
(C) “walk, trudge, saunter” (D) “rose, olive, purple”
20. The great lexicographer Samuel Johnson compiled __________ in 1755.
(A) “The American Dictionary of the English Language”
(B) “A Dictionary of the English Language”
(C) “Longman Modern English Dictionary”
(D) “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary”
III. Decide whether each of the following words is a A) simple word, B) compound word, C) derived word or D) shortened form. Mark your answers on the answer sheet. (10%)
21. fax 26. exam
22. recycle 27. culture
23. dropout 28. fridge
24. morning 29. setback
25. lighter 30. science
IV. Explain the following terms with appropriate examples. Do it on the answer sheet. (10%)
31. synonymy
32. prefixation
V. Give a short answer to the following questions. Do it on the answer sheet. (30%)
33. What is the difference between an inflectional affix and a derivational affix? Illustrate your points with examples.
34. Explain clipping and blending and the difference between them.
VI. Give a longer answer (150-200 words) to the following question. Do it on the answer sheet. (20%)
35. What are the characteristics of the American English and how is it different from British English?
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