12秋华中师范大学《词汇学》在线作业(随机)第1份

华师《词汇学》在线作业
试卷总分：100
单选题 判断题


一、单选题（共 20 道试题，共 40 分。）
1.The Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English. _________ of them are still in use today.
A. 85%
B. 56%
C. 72%
D. 75%
此题选: D
2.Narrowing excludes ________.
A. change from material nouns to common nouns
B. change from common nouns to proper nouns
C. words shortened from phrases to retain the meaning of the whole for economy
D. change from specific meanings to general meanings
此题选: D
3.The first people known to inhabit the British Isles were ________. Their languages were dialects of still another branch of the In-do-European Language Family ________.
A. German / Germanic
B. Celts / Celtic
C. Italian / Italic
D. Sweden / Swedish

4.Which of the following is not associative meaning?
A. collocative meaning
B. stylistic meaning
C. affective meaning
D. primary meaning
此题选: D
5.“Give somebody an inch and he’ll take a mile” is a _________.
A. sentence idiom
B. proverb
C. clause idiom
D. both A and B
此题选: D
6.Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of _________.
A. prefixation
B. suffixation
C. acronymy
D. conversion

7.Non-basic vocabulary includes __________.
A. argot and jargon
B. archaisms and neologisms
C. echnical terms
D. all the above
此题选: D
8.Modern English began with the establishment of ________ in England.
A. printing
B. Bourgeois Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution
D. Renaissance Time

9.The first monolingual English dictionary was compiled in ________.
A. 1604
B. 1066
C. 1406
D. 1046

10.Motel is a/an is ________.
A. blend
B. clipped word
C. initialism
D. acronym

11.Functional words are ________________.
A. adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
B. adjectives, nouns, articles
C. articles, prepositions, conjunctions
D. verbs, pronouns, prepositions

12.There are two main approaches to the study of English words namely ________.
A. descriptive and prescriptive
B. synchronic and diachronic
C. spoken and written
D. competence and performance

13.“The birds sing to welcome the smiling year.” Is an example of ________.
A. euphemism
B. synecdoche
C. metonymy
D. metaphor

14._________ is a word-formation process by which a word is changed from one word-class into another without the change of form.
A. Blending
B. Affixation
C. Back-formation
D. Conversion
此题选: D
15.English words can be motivated______.
A. phonologically
B. morphologically
C. etymologically
D. all the above
此题选: D
16.___________ is not a characteristic of basic word stock.
A. Colloquialism
B. All national character
C. Stability
D. Polysemy

17.The discrete units which realize morphemes are known as ________.
A. allomorphs
B. phonemes
C. morphs
D. lexis

18.Which of the following is NOT studied in semantics?
A. polysemy
B. language family
C. ambiguity
D. complementaries

19.According to the idiomaticity of idioms, idioms include ________.
A. true idioms
B. semi-idioms
C. regular combinations
D. all the above
此题选: D
20.One billion is ________ in British English.
A. 1,000,000,000
B. 1,000,000,000,000
C. 1,000,000
D. 1,000,000,000,000,000




华师《词汇学》在线作业
试卷总分：100
单选题 判断题


二、判断题（共 30 道试题，共 60 分。）
1.Modern English is considered to be an analytic language.
A. 错误
B. 正确

2.Commonization involves proper nouns used as common words.
A. 错误
B. 正确

3.Variations of idioms are the idioms whose forms are modified.
A. 错误
B. 正确

4.“meat” is an example of narrowing of meaning.
A. 错误
B. 正确

5.Objective meaning shows that the subject (or agent) is the one to be affected by the action of the verb.
A. 错误
B. 正确

6.The contemporary vocabulary expansion of English is mainly by borrowing and affixation.
A. 错误
B. 正确

7.The meaning of a word which is etymologically motivated is closely related to its origin.
A. 错误
B. 正确

8.Contradictory terms are non-gradable.
A. 错误
B. 正确

9.Homonyms come mainly from borrowing―the most important source.
A. 错误
B. 正确

10.Prefixes do not generally change part of speech whereas suffixes do.
A. 错误
B. 正确

11.In some pairs of antonyms, one term may cover the meaning of the other word.
A. 错误
B. 正确

12.Acronyms are words of initial letters, which are pronounced letter by letter.
A. 错误
B. 正确

13.What remains of a word after the removal of all affixes is a stem.
A. 错误
B. 正确

14.Grammatical meaning refers to the part of the word-meaning which indicates grammatical concepts.
A. 错误
B. 正确

15.In the process of “Radiation” the derived meanings of words are not directly related to the primary meaning.
A. 错误
B. 正确

16.Linguistic context refers to the words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and even cultural background.
A. 错误
B. 正确

17.The four major foreign contributors to the development of English vocabulary are Latin, Greek, French and Scandinavian.
A. 错误
B. 正确

18.The minimal free form of a language is a morpheme.
A. 错误
B. 正确

19.Complementaries are antonyms characterized by “mutual exclusion” and “gradability”.
A. 错误
B. 正确

20.Idioms are set phrases whose meaning is often difficult or impossible to infer from the constituent words.
A. 错误
B. 正确

21.The diachronic approach to polysemy is to find how a word gradually acquires its meanings in the process of development.
A. 错误
B. 正确

22.Aliens, semantic loans, translation-loans and denizens are all borrowings.
A. 错误
B. 正确

23.Old English refers to the language used between 100 and 450.
A. 错误
B. 正确

24.Extra-linguistic context refers to factors beyond language.
A. 错误
B. 正确

25.Acronyms are words of initial letters which are pronounced as common words.
A. 错误
B. 正确

26.Reference refers to the relationship between different languages.
A. 错误
B. 正确

27.Words of old English were full of endings.
A. 错误
B. 正确

28.Elevation is also known as amelioration.
A. 错误
B. 正确

29.By origin English is more closely related to German than to French.
A. 错误
B. 正确

30.The most important source of English synonyms is shortening.
A. 错误
B. 正确