英语词汇学2013年4月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Comment on the following 2 sentences to illustrate the features of aft meaning of words.Sentence 1 “One who is fill with ambition usually works hard.”Sentence 2 "Knowledge of inequality has stimulated envy, ambition and greed."

Analyze and comment on the word dull in the following sentences based on the characteristics of antonyms.[A] She became (dull) and silent during the last part of the journey.[B] I'm hearing a constant (dull)noise (whirring) that gets louder as I accelerate.[C]I got aright way to keep your face radiant and glowing even in this(dull) weather.[D] These factors affect both intelligent and(dull)children.

Both back-formation and back-clipping are ways of making words by removing the endings of words. Can you explain the difference? Illustrate your point with examples.

Group the following words into semantic fields initiated with the superordinate that covers each field.credit card, gas, go, hotel, liquid, matter, room service, run, walk

Can you determine the meaning of the words in bold type in each of the following sentences?Explain and make some alterations in the context so as to pin down the meaning.(a) They saw her duck(b) The ball was attractive.

Analyze "individualistic in terms of root and stem.

extra-linguistic context

idioms nominal in nature

semantic change

Compounding

Radiation

"White elephant" is an idiom _____ in nature.

Based on the _____ context, we can determine the meaning of "do fish" as "cook".

Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms is a(n)_____dictionary.

Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to change in denotation from _____ to pejorative than it is for them to go the other way.

Words of language can be classified into semantically related sets or_____.

That part of the word meaning, which is suggested by the words before or after the word in discussion, is known as _____meaning.

___is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political organizations or special noun phrases and technical terms.

Morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are_____ morphemes.

In terms of the origin of words, words may fall into native words and_____words.

In the Western set of the language family,_____is the modern language derived from Hellenic.

Which of the following is NOT true about Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English?

Which of the following is NOT true about linguistic dictionaries?

The main body of a dictionary is its_____of words.

The idiom "a bull in a china shop" was created probably by_____.

“Up in the air” is an idiom_____in nature.

Which of the following rhetorical features can be seen in the idiom "scream and shout”?

In the sentence " 'Do get me a clop. . she said, smacking her lips, bwr her brother, with a scornful glance up at the branches, said thai there were none ripe yet." The meaning of clop can be inferred from the clue of_____.

Missiles in the sentence “In the History Museum are exhibited all kinds of missiles." is ambiguous due to _____.

Some words can have two different types of antonyms at the same time, one being_____ and the other opposite.

There is associated transfer, for example, the lip of a wound, the tongue of a bell, the _____of a plane, in which the meaning is transferred through association.

When a word with multiple meanings is used in inadequate context, it creates_____.

Which term can be used to best describe the relationship between the underlined adjectives in “Unlike her (gregarious) sister, Jane is an (unsociable)person"?

The associated transfer of meaning and euphemistic use of words are often due to_____factors.

By_____. motivation, we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to its origin.

The differences between synonyms boil down to three areas: denotation, connotation, and _____.

Unlike radiation where each of the derived meanings is directly connected to the primary meaning. _____describes a process where each of the later meaning is related only to the preceding one like chains.

The singular and plural meaning of a noun is known as the_____ meaning of a word.

The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word is called _____.

_____explains why a particular form has a particular meaning.

Words produced through. _____account for the largest part of the total number of new words through word-formation.

The function of_____is mainly to change the grammatical function of the stem rather than its meaning.

The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT___.

The root of the word "Internationalist" is _____.

There is(are) _____allomorphemic word(s) in the following words: cats, men, glass, worked.

Social, economic and political changes bring about an increasing number of new words. Which of the following words is related to political changes?

At the end of 6th century, Latin-speaking Roman missionaries under St. Augustine came to spread _____ in Britain, the introduction of which had a great impact on the English vocabulary.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Which of the following words is a neologism?

By notion, words can be grouped into content words and functional words. Which of the following words belongs to functional words?

Which of the following is NOT true?