英语词汇学2010年7月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "Madam, in times like these no butcher can make both ends meet. "

How do you use a dictionary to the full?

Analyze and comment on the following statement.

As most words have more than one meaning, it is often impossible to tell the meaning of a word before it is used in context.

What is concept? Give an example to illustrate your point.

What are the three periods in view of the development of English vocabulary?

How many types do bound morphemes include? What are they?

unabridged dictionary

dismembering of idiom

blending

bound morphemes