英语词汇学2011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.

A:“Why is Sunday the strongest day?”

B: “Because all the others are week days. ”

Analyze and comment on the following TWO sentences to illustrate the differences between blending and clipping.The program will be telecast simultaneously to nearly 150 cities.It sounds much better in stereo.

By the criterion of grammatical functions, idioms may be classified into five groups. Name the five groups and match the following expressions with them as their examples respectively.“white elephant” “look into” “beyond the pale”“tooth and nail” “Never do things by halves. ”

What is collocative meaning of a word? Please take “pretty” and “handsome” as an example to illustrate your point.

What contextual clues do you often use to help you in guessing the meanings of new words?Demonstrate these clues with examples.

polysemy

linguistic context

What is the difference between root and stem?

allomorphs

affixation

free morphemes

The stylistic features of idioms are ________, slang and literary expressions.

The user-friendly features of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English are its clear grammar codes, _________ and language notes.

From the _________ point of view, polysemy is assumed to be the result of growth and development of the semantic structure of one and same word.

Changing in word ________ has never ceased since the language came into being and will continue in the future.

Based on the ___________ context, we can determine the meaning of “do the flowers” as “ arrange the flowers”.

The morpheme is the smallest _____________unit in the composition of words.

The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called ____________.

Unlike conceptual meaning, ____________ meaning is open-ended and indeterminate.

From the historical overview of the English vocabulary, the language spoken from 1150 to 1500 is called _____________ English.

The jargon of criminals is generally referred as _____________.

Readers will usually find in a general dictionary the following areas of information of a word EXCEPT _________ .

Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n) _____________ dictionary.

When we choose a dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether it is _____________.

The idiom “bed of dust” is a ___________ as far as figures of speech are concerned.

Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?

Which of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms?

Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context?

The sentence “The ball was attractive” is ambiguous due to_________.

Which of the following is NOT a context clue?

Among the following words only“________ ” expresses the property of elevation.

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

In Shakespearean line ‘Rats and mice and such small deer’, ‘deer’ obviously designates ‘animal’ in general. Therefore ‘deer’ is a typical example of _________.

_____________, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison.

The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; silence is golden” are ____________.

In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its __________ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc.

Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to them in____________。

The synonymous pair of “ask-question” has the same___________.

Prefixes generally do not change the __________ of the stem.

The word “reading-lamp” is _______ motivated.

The word “dorm” is formed by _________clipping.

The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _________.

The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________.

There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection.

If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings.

The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT ________.

Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English.

____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc.

Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_________.

In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should ________ that of the oral form.

Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can function in a sentence.