2016 词汇学试题.docx

2016美语学院 英语专业词汇学期中试题I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)1. Words fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______. （ ）A. use frequency B. notionC. productivity D. origin2. Words like bear, nut, knocked out can be categorized as ______. （ ）A. terminology B. jargonC. slang D. neologisms3. Identify the word that is of Scandinavian origin among the following. （ ）A. Skirt B. DressC. Model D. Status4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ ）A. Old English was a highly inflected language.B. Reviving archaic or obsolete words also contribute to the growth of English vocabularyC. The word cloak is of French origin.D. Modern English is a synthetic language.5. The root of the word “antecedent” is ______. （ ）A. ante- B. -ced-C. -dent D. -ent6.Shortening a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called ______. （ ）A. blending B. clippingC. acronymy D. back-formation7. Associative meaning of words comprises the following except ______. （ ）A. connotative meaning B. lexical meaningC. affective meaning D. collocative meaning8. What is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages? （ ）A. Suffixation. B. Polysemy.C. Allomorph. D. Variation.9. Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?（ ）A. Deer. B. Cattle.C. Sheep. D. Bird.10. When a word with multiple meanings is used in an inadequate context, this word may create ______. （ ）A. semantic motivation B. degradationC. ambiguity D. extension11. Without ______, there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.A. context B. semantic unityC. structural stability D. stylistic feature12. Idioms manifest such rhetorical features as the following except______. （ ）A. phoneti