英语词汇学2010年4月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

State the roles of context in determination of word meaning. Illustrate your points with examples.

Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the stylistic features of idioms.Stylistically speaking, most idioms are neither formal nor informal.

Analyze and comment, with a diagram, on the italicized words increase, extend and expand in the following three sentences based on the concept of discrimination of synonyms.

[a] The company has decided to increase its sales by ten per cent next year.

[b] The owner of the restaurant is going to extend the kitchen by ten feet this year.

[c] The metal will expand if heated.

What is grammatical meaning of a word? Give an example to illustrate your point.

What type of transfer is experienced for the word in bold type?

The fairy tale “The Sleeping Beauty” is very interesting.

What are derivational affixes?

motivation

narrowing

replacement of idioms

conversion