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词汇学一百题
广东外语外贸大学公开学院英语词汇学试卷（A卷）OpenUniversity
I.Eachofthestatementsbelowisfollowedbyfouralternativeanswers.Choosetheonethatwouldbestcompletethestatement.
1.Therearetwoapproachestothestudyofpolysemy.Theyare_____.
A.primaryandsecondary
B.centralandperipheral
C.diachronicandsynchronic
D.formalandfunctional
2.WhichofthefollowingisNOTastylisticfeatureofidioms?
A.Colloquial
B.Slang
C.Negative
D.Literary
3.Synonymscanbeclassifiedintotwomajorgroups,thatis:
A.absoluteandrelative
B.absoluteandcomplete
C.relativeandnear
D.completeandidentical
4.IntheearlyperiodofMiddleEnglish,English,_____existedsidebyside.
A.CelticandDanish
B.DanishandFrench
C.LatinandCeltic
D.FrenchandLatin
5.Amonomorphemicwordisawordthatconsistsofasingle_____morpheme.
A.formal
B.concrete
C.free
D.bound
6.WhichofthefollowinggroupsofwordsinNOTonomatopoeicallymotivated?
A.croak,drum
B.squeak,bleat
C.buzz,neigh
D.bang,trumpet
7.LDCEisdistinctiveforits
A.cleargrammarcodes
B.usagenotes
C.languagenotes
D.alloftheabove
8.Fromthehistoricalpointofview,Englishismorecloselyrelatedto
A.German
B.French
C.Scottish
D.Irish
9.WhichofthefollowingisNOTanacronym?
A.TOEFL
B.ODYSSEY
C.BASIC
D.CCTV
10.Inthecourse-book,theauthorlists_____typesofcontextcluesforinferringwordmeaning.
A.eight
B.six
C.seven
D.five
11.Sourcesofhomonymsinclude
A.changesinsoundandspelling
B.borrowing
C.shortening
D.alloftheabove
12.ThewrittenformofEnglishisa（n）_____representationofthespokenform.
A.selective
B.adequate
C.imperfect
D.natural
13.Structurallya_____isthesmallestmeaningfulunitofalanguage.
A.morpheme
B.stem
C.word
D.compound
14.Unlikeaffixes,_____areoftenfreemorphemes.
A.suffixes
B.prefixes
C.inflectionalmorphemes
D.roots
15.ThefourmajorforeigncontributorstotheEnglishvocabularyinearliertimeswereFrench,Latin,_____.
A.ScandinavianandItalian
B.GreekandScandinavian
C.CelticandGreek
D.ItalianandSpanish
16._____isusedinparticulardisciplineandacademicareas.
A.Jargon
B.Terminology
C.Slang
D.Argot
17.Wordformationexcludes_____.
A.affixationandcompounding
B.conversionandshortening
C.clipping,acronymyandblending
D.repetitionandalliteration
18.Thedifferencesbetweencompoundsandfreephrasesshowin_____aspects.
A.phonetic
B.semantic
C.grammatical
D.alltheabove
19.“Mouth”in“themouthofriver”is_____.
A.onomatopoeticallymotivated
B.morphologicallymotivated
C.semanticallymotivated
D.etymologicallymotivated
20.Radiationandconcatenationaredifferentstagesofthedevelopmentleadingtopolysemy.Generally,radiation_____concatenation.
A.isbehind
B.precedes
C.iswith
D.makesupfor
21.Ofthemodesofword-meaningchanges,_____arethemostcommon.
A.elevationandtransfer
B.narrowinganddegradation
C.extensionandnarrowing
D.degradationandtransfer
22.Thechieffunctionofprefixationisto_____.
A.changemeaningsofthestems
B.changetheword-classofthestem
C.changegrammaticalfunction
D.alltheabove
23.Aconcepthas_____referringexpressions.
A.one
B.many
C.afew
D.noneoftheabove
24.Formsandfunctionsofidiomsare_____.
A.identical
B.notidentical
C.different
D.notnecessarilyidentical
25.Themostimportantsourcesofsynonymsareperhaps_____.
A.dialectsandregionalEnglish
B.borrowing
C.figurativeandeuphemisticuseofwords
D.coincidencewithidiomaticexpressions
26.Theoverwhelmingmajorityofblendsare_____.
A.verbs
B.nouns
C.adjectives
D.adverbial
27.The“de-”in“decompose”isa（n）_____prefix.
A.negative
B.pejorative
C.reversative
D.orientation
28.OldEnglishhasavocabularyofabout_____words.
A.30,000to40,000
B.40,000to50,000
C.50,000to60,000
D.60,000to70,000
29._____isright.
A.Rootandstemareidentical
B.Rootincludesstem
C.Rootandstemarecompletelydifferent
D.Stemincludesroot
30.Theconversionoftwosyllablenounsintoverbsinvolvesachangeof_____.
A.spelling
B.pronunciation
C.stress
D.function
31._____arecontraryantonyms.
A.Trueandfalse
B.Richandpoor
C.Parentandchild
D.Maleandfemale
32._____isusedintheidiom“livebyone’spen”.
A.Metonymy
B.synecdoche
C.Metaphor
D.Personification
33.Freemorphemesandfreerootsare_____.
A.identical
B.different
C.theformerincludesthelatter
D.thelatterincludestheformer
34.Incompounds,thewordstressusuallyoccurson_____whereasinnounphrase_____isgenerallystressedifthereisonlyonestress.
A.thefirstelement/thesecondelement
B.thesecondelement/thefirstelement
C.thefirstelement/thefirstelement
D.thesecondelement/thesecondelement
35.Motivationaccountsforconnectionbetweenthelinguisticsymboland_____.
A.itsmeaning
B.itssound
C.itsform
D.noneoftheabove
36.“Paper”in“awhitepaper”means_____.
A.anessaywrittenattheendoftheterm
B.agovernmentdocument
C.newspaper
D.asetofquestionsusedasanexam
37._____haveexperiencedtheextensionsofmeanings.
A.PolysemicwordsofmodernEnglish
B.Technicaltermsinthepast
C.Propernounsinthepast
D.Alltheabove
38.Idiommanifestsapparentrhetoricalcoloringwhichdoesn’tinclude_____.
A.phoneticmanipulation
B.lexicalmanipulation
C.grammaticalfunctions
D.figuresofspeech
39.Nowpeoplegenerallyreferto_____asoldEnglish.
A.Anglo-Saxon
B.Celtic
C.Latin
D.Armenian
40.BothLDCEandCCELDare_____.
A.generaldictionaries
B.monolingualdictionaries
C.bothAandB
D.neitherAnorB
41.Thesmallestfunctioningunitinthemakingofwordsis_____.
A.word
B.morpheme
C.morph
D.root
42.“Law-abiding”is_____.
A.anadjectivecompound
B.anouncompound
C.averbcompound
D.noneoftheabove
43.“_____”isnotamorphologically-motivatedword.
A.Blackmarket
B.Airmail
C.Reading-lamp
D.Hopeless
44.Relativesynonymsaresimilarornearlythesamein_____meaning.
A.stylistic
B.affective
C.conceptual
D.collocative
45.Extra-linguisticfactorsofword-meaningchangeinclude_____.
A.historicalandclassreason
B.historicalandpsychologicalreason
C.psychologicalandclassreason
D.alltheabove
46.BorrowingasasourceofhomonymyinEnglishcanbeillustratedby_____.
A.long（notshort）
B.fair（amarket）
C.rock（rock’n’roll）
D.ad（advertisement）
47.Inabroadsense,idiomsmayinclude_____.
A.colloquialisms
B.catchphrases
C.slang
D.alltheabove
48.Associativemeaningcomprisesseveraltypesexcept_____meaning.
A.connotative
B.stylistic
C.affective
D.lexical
49.ModernEnglishisconsideredtobea（n）_____language.
A.inflected
B.analytic
C.synthetic
D.new
50.“Pen”isa（n）_____-motivatedword.
A.onomatopoetically
B.morphologically
C.semantically
D.etymologically
II.Decidewhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalse.WriteTfortrueandFforfalse.
51.Sinceeachidiomisasemanticwhole,eachcanbereplacedbyasingleword.
52.Stemisaformtowhichaffixesofanykindcanbeadded.
53.Transferisaprocessbyorlessdefiniteconcept.
54.Stylisticallyspeaking,mostidiomsareneitherformalnorinformal.
55.Grammaticalmeaningreferstothepartofspeech,tensesofverbsandstylisticfeaturesofwords.
56.Unlikeconceptualmeaning,associativemeaningisunstableandindeterminate.
57.Contextcluesrefertothehintsgiveninacontext.whichawordwithspecializedsenseisgeneralizedtocover
58.TheEnglishlanguageisthelanguageoftheearlyinhabitantsoftheBritishIsles.
59.Encyclopedicdictionarieshavethecharacteristicsofbothlinguisticdictionariesandencyclopedia.
60.Initialismsarewordsthatarepronouncedasnormalwords;acronymsarethosewhicharepronouncedletterbyletter.
61.Semanticloansarewordswhosemeaningareborrowed,e.g.humor,chopstick,silk,longtimenosee,tea,etc.
62.Jargonreferstothespecializedvocabulariesbywhichmembersofparticulararts,sciences,tradesandprofessionscommunicateamongthemselves.
63.Vocabularyisthemoststableelementofalanguage.
64.Theconversionbetweennounsandverbsmayinvolveachangeofstress.
65.Contrarytermsarenon-gradableandallowintermediatemembersinbetween.
66.Absoluteorcompletesynonymsarewordswhichareidenticalinmeaningandspelling.
67.Collocativemeaningisthepartofmeaningawordacquiresinitscollocation,orthemeaningsuggestedbythewordsbeforeorafterthewordindiscussion.
68.Thereferenceofawordtoathingoutsidethelanguageisarbitraryandconventional.
69.Clippingisawayofmakingnewwordswhichinvolvestheshorteningalongerwordbycuttingapartofftheoriginalandusingwhatremainsinstead.
70.TheintroductionofChristianityhadlittleimpactontheEnglishvocabulary.
71.Allomorphreferstoanyofthedifferentformsofamorpheme.
72.Fromasynchronicpointofview,wordscanbestudiedatapointintime,disregardingwhateverchangesmightbetakingplace.
73.
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