英语词汇学2009年4月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Analyze the three causes of meaning change within the scope of the linguistic factors, based on the given words below.

(1)gold, bulb;

(2)deer, beast, animals;

(3)fortuitous, fruition.

Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font.

—“You’re not eating your fish,” a waitress said to a customer. “Anything wrong with it?

—“Long time no sea.” the customer replied.

How do you account for the context function as indication of referents?

What are the semantic features of compounds? Give an example to illustrate your point.

Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the characteristics of antonyms. State your reason with one example.Contrary terms are non-gradable and allow intermediate members in between.

idiom

elevation

As far as growth of present-day English vocabulary is concerned, what are the three main sources of new words?

homonym

connotation

morpheme

Idioms consist of set ________ and short sentences.

Monolingual dictionaries are written in ________ language.

Ambiguity often arises due to ________ and homonymy.

Vocabulary is the most ________ element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content.

Perfect homonyms and polysemants are fully ________ with regard to spelling and pronunciation.

The formation of words by adding word-forming affixes to stems is called ________.

Semantic ________ refers to the mental associations suggested by the conceptual meaning of a word.

We might say that free morphemes are free ________.

Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: ________, semantic change and borrowing.

When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a ________ group of letters printed or written horizontally across a piece of paper.

ex-prisoner

fair and square

Helen looks a fright in that old black dress.

rough and ready

moon

here and there

the man’s coat

and

He drops off to sleep, the lamb.

B

(A)juxtaposition

(B)notional word

(C)transfer of sensations

(D)abstract to concrete

(E)derivational affix

(F)Alliteration

(G)functional word

(H)inflectional affix

(I)associated transfer

(J)rhyme

A

She burst into passionate sobbing.

Collins COBUILD English Usage (1992), is a(n) ______ dictionary.

As a general Chinese-English dictionary, ______ is the most complete and up-to-date, most elaborately treated one

Generally speaking, a dictionary will cover the following content EXCEPT ______.

The following are all variations of idioms, EXCEPT ______.

In the sentence “An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a sou’Wester usually brings rain.”, the meaning of “sou’wester” can be inferred from the clue of ______.

The idiom “toss and turn” is a(n) ______ as far as rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.

Which of the following is NOT one of the types of idioms?

The sentence “I lost Betty’s picture.” is ambiguous due to ______.

Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of context?

Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words were used in different ______ from what they have now in dictionaries.

In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the ______ sense of transfer.

The mode of ______ is well reflected in the word “picture”, which originally denoted mere “painting”, but now has come to include “drawings” and even “photographs”

The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas the first is archaic, EXCEPT ______.

Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of ______.

When a word is first coined, it is always ______.

The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT ______.

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

______ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.

The word “motel” is created by ______.

“BBC” is formed in the way of ______.

There are ______ free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.

The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.

30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through ______.

Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American English “fall” means ______ in British English.

The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT ______.

Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new ______ to meet the new need.

Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.

Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT______.

The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.

According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.