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2009年下半年华南师范大学开放学院

委考课程考试（A）卷

专业名称：英语教育课程名称：英语词汇学课程代码：08268

I. Fill in the blanks with the right words. (10%)

1. A word may be defined as one of the fundamental units of speech and as having a minimum free form. It is a unity of ______ and ______, capable of performing a given ______ function.

2. ______ root cannot appear as words in modern English.

3. Acronyms differ from initialisms in that they pronounced as _____ rather than as sequences of _____.

4. ______ meaning is dominant in content words, ______ meaning is dominant in function words, but in neither is grammatical meaning absent.

5. There are two kinds of synonyms: _______ synonyms and ______ synonyms.

II. The following are multiple-choice questions. Mark your answer with A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet. (20%)

1. The English language has vast debts. The majority of English words are borrowed from _____. A. Danish B. Normans C. Anglo, Saxon and Jutes D. Romans

2. Of the following words, _____ is the most productive.

A. clipping

B. blending

C. initialism

D. derivation

3. “ above” and “ below” form a pair of ______.

A. complementary antonyms

B. gradable antonyms

C. marked antonyms

D. conversives

4 The ambiguity in “ I like Bill more than Mary” is caused by ____.

A. a grammatical structure

B. lexical items

C. homonymy

D. polysemy

5. _______ is not a compound.

A. Airmail

B. Headache

C. Housekeeping

D. Telephone

6. _____ is a snarl word.

A. slender

B. complacency

C. statesman

D. confidence

7. Middle English began with the _____ conquest of England in 1066.

A. Greek

B. Norman

C. Danish

D. Roman

8. ___ is not a pair of homophones.

A. pair, pear

B. dear, deer

C. tear, tear

D. son, sun

9. The word ____ is usually not used by British people.

A. pub

B. taxi

C. tube

D. railroad

10. Which of the following is a prefix of time and order?

A. extra-

B. pro-

C. semi-

D. re-

11. The root “tain” as in “maintain, retain and detain” means ____.

A. to hold

B. to give

C.to get

D. to put

12. A _____ of sheep is grazing in the fields. A. swarm B. herd C. shoal D. flock

13. The word “fond” used to mean “foolish”, now it means “tender and affectionate”. It is an example of _____ of meaning. A. extension B. degeneration C. elevation D. restriction

14. _____ meaning can be broken down into minimal distinctive components which are known as semantic features.

A. Connotative

B. Conceptual

C. Social

D. Affective

15. The “ house” in the “ the peasant housed him” belong to the conversion ____.

A. between noun and adjective

B. between noun and verb

C. between verb and adjective

D. none of the above

16. The prefix in the word ____ does not change it to a different word-class.

A. “endanger”

B. “ unearth”

C. “ antiwar”

D. “ unfair”

17. 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

18. The typical con versation expression “ Friday week” means _____.

A. next week

B. last week

C. Friday a week after next Friday

D. on Friday every week

19. The idiomatic expression in “ my old man has kicked the bucket” means ____.

A. my daddy has struck a pail with his feet

B. my old buddy has gone to get the bucket

C. my old father has passed away

D. my old pail has been damaged

20. Oxford English Dictionary is a _____ dictionary.

A. prescriptive

B. pocket

C. medium-size

D. descriptive

III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to

1）types of meaning changes; 2）types of meaning; 3）language branches and 4）features of idioms(10%)

A B

21. grammatical meaning () A. Scottish

22. reading-lamp () B. neither fish, flesh, nor fowl

23. pen () C. morphologically motivated

24. alliteration () D. head of a state

25. difference in connotation() E. answer/ respond

26. elevation () F. etymologically motivated

27. degradation () G. garage ( a place for storing cars)

28. narrowing () H. thing (any object or event)

29. extension () I. part of speech

30. Celtic () J. knave (a dishonest person)

IV. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book(10%)

31. The same idiom may show _____ differences when it is used in different meanings including affective meaning.

32. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: creation, semantic change and _____.

33. ____ morphemes are chiefly found in derived words.

34. Lexical ______ of a word has two components: conceptual meaning and associative meaning.

35. Conceptual meaning _____is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of word-meaning..

36. Pen in old English , refers to the feather, but with the development of technology, fountain was invented , but the name of this material was kept up to this day, people still used the pen to refer to writing tool, this motivation is called ______

37. The sentence “I lost Betty's picture.” is ambiguous due to ______.

38. Based on the criterion of ___ functions, idioms may be classified into five groups.

39. Encyclopedic dictionaries have the characteristics of both ______ dictionaries and encyclopedia.

40. Radiation and____ are the two coinages which the development of word meaning follows from monosemy to polysemy

V．Decide whether each of the following words is a (n) (15%)

(A) compound (B) derived word (C) converted word (D) initialism (E) acronym (F) clipped word (G) blend (H) back-formed word

(l) word from proper names (J) onomatopoeic word .

1. IOC

2. heartbeat

3. investment

4. headache

5. gloom

6. ad

7. phone

8. recover

9. botel 10. quack 11. watt 12. math 13. Laser 14. belittle 15. unearth

VI. Match each terms with its definition. Do it on the answer sheet. (5%)

a. stem

b. root

c. elevation

d. generalization

e. homophone

1. It is a form which is not further analyzable, either in terms of derivational or inflectional morphology.

2. Words identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning.

3. It is the case in which a word meaning takes a turn for the better in course of time, and has either risen from a “snarl” word to a “ purr” word, or from a slang term to a common word.

4. It is the case in which the sense of a word is widened until covers much more than what it original conveyed.

5. It is the part of word-form which remains when all inflectional affixes have been removed.

VII. Explain the following terms with appropriate examples. (10%; 2% each) 1. a morpheme 2. radiation 3. context 4. an allomorph 5. blending

VIII. Answer the following questions. (10%; 5% each)

1. How do we classified words by level of usage?

2. Say something about the motivation of English words.

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