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哈尔滨商业大学
2009-2010
学年第二学期

《词汇学》期末考试试卷



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一、单项选择题（本大题共
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I.

Each
of
the
statements
below
is
followed
by
four
alternative
answers.
Choose the one that would best complete the statement.
1.
Argot
generally
refers
to
the
jargon
of
_______.
Its
use
is
confined
to
the
sub- cultural groups and outsiders can hardly understand it.



A. workers




B. criminals





C. any person




D. policeman
2.________ are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.



A. Argot





B. Slang









C. Jargon







D. Dialectal words
3. Archaisms are words or forms that were once in _________use but are now
restricted only to specialized or limited use.



A. common



B. little










C. slight







D. great
4. Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken
on ______meanings.
A. new






B. old











C. bad









D. good
5. Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as_________ words.
They include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals.




A. functional


B. notional






C. empty







D. formal
6. In the Indo-Iranian we have Persian , Bengali, Hindi, Romany, the last three
of which are derived from the dead language,_______.
A. Sanskrit




B. Latin








C. Roman







D. Greek
7. Greek is the modern language derived from _______.

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A. Latin





B. Hellenic





C. Indian







D . Germanic
8. The five Romance languages , namely, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian,
Romanian
all
belong
to
the
Italic
through
an
intermediate
language
called
_______.
A. Sanskrit


B. Latin








C. Celtic








D. Anglo-Saxon
9.
The
________family
consists
of
the
four
Northern
European
Languages:
Norwegian,
Icelandic,
Danish
and
Swedish,
which
are
generally
known
as
Scandinavian languages.
A. Germanic


B. Indo-European

C. Albanian




D. Hellenic
10.
By
the
end
of
the
_______century
,
virtually
all
of
the
people
who
held
political
or
social
power
and
many
of
those
in
powerful
Church
positions
were of Norman French origin.
A. 10
th







B.11
th










C.12
th











D. 13
th


11.
The
prefixes
in
the
words
of
ir
resistible,
non
classical
and
a
political
are
called _______.
A. reversative prefixes










B. negative prefixes

C. pejorative prefixes











D. locative prefixes
12.
The
prefixes
contained
in
the
following
words
are
called
______:
pseudo
-friend,
mal
practice,
mis
trust.

A. reversative prefixed










B. negative prefixes

C. pejorative prefixes











D. locative prefixes
13. The prefixed contained in
un
wrap,
de
-compose and
dis
allow are _________.
A. reversative prefixed










B. negative prefixes

C. pejorative prefixes











D. locative prefixes
14. The prefixes in words
extra
-strong, overweight and
arch
bishop are _____ .
A . negative prefixes












B. prefixes of degree or size


C. pejorative prefixes











D. locative prefixes

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15. The prefixes in words
bi
lingual ,
uni
form and
hemis
phere are ________.

A. number prefixes













B. prefixes of degree or size


C. pejorative prefixes











D. locative prefixes
A. contradictory terms











B. contrary terms


C. relative terms
















D. connected terms

antonyms
big
and
small
are ______.
A. contradictory terms











B. contrary terms


ive
meaning
indicates
the
speaker
’
s
_______towards
the
person
or
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thing in question.
A. feeling




B. liking





C. attitude






D. understanding
17. _________ are affective words as they are expressions of emotions such as
oh, dear me, alas
.
A. Prepositions

B. Interjections


C. Exclamations


D. Explanations
18.
It
is
noticeable that
_______overlaps with
stylistic and
affective meanings
because in a sense both stylistic and affective meanings are revealed by means
of collocations.
A. conceptual meaning









B. grammatical meaning

C. lexical meaning













D. collocative meaning
the same language, the same concept can be expressed in ______.
A. only one word














B. two words


C. more than three













D. different words

nce is the relationship between language and the ______.
A. speakers


B. listeners




C. world






D. specific country
21. ________refer to one of two or more words in the English language which
have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning.




A. Polysemants

B. Synonyms

C. Antonyms


D. Hyponyms
22. The sense relation between the two words
tulip
and
flower
is _______.
A. hyponymy


B. synonymy


C. polysemy


D. antonymy

23. _________ are
words
identical
only in spelling but different in
sound and
meaning, e.g.
bow
/bau/;
bow
/beu/.
A. Homophones














B. Homographs



C. Perfect homonyms










D. Antonyms
24. The antonyms:
male
and
female
are ______.
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C. relative terms
















D. connected terms
26. The original meaning of manuscript is ________.
A. any author
’
s writing










B. handwriting


C. any author
’
s works











D. a piece of paper

27. The original meaning of barn is ______.

A. a place for storing only barley


B. a storeroom

C. a restroom


















D. a bathroom

28. The extended meaning of journal is ______
A. daily paper



B. any paper




C. magazines



D. periodical

29. In Shakespearean line
‘
rats and mice and such small
dee
r
’
,
deer
obviously
designates
‘
_____
’
in general.
A. a doe








B.. animal






C. a deerlike animal

D. buck

30. The original meaning of
wife
is _______.
A. a married woman












B. a young woman



C. woman




















D. widowed woman

31

Why a language becomes a global language has ________to do with the
number of people who speak it. It has much more to do with who those speakers
are

A. little























B. few


C. anything




















D. something
32
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Language exists only in the brains, mouths, ears, hands and eyes of its users.
When they succeed on the international stage, their language ________. When
they fail, their language fails.
A. wins






















B. prevails



C. emerges




















D. succeeds

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33. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, numerals, and adverbs are __________words or
notional words, because they are meaningful in themselves, even if they appear
in isolation. Full words function as independent members in sentences.
A. loan






















B. native

C. full























D. learned

34.

A polysemic word has a range of different meanings while a monosemic
word consists of ________. In English polysemy is the rule, but monosemy is
the exception.


A. a single meaning











B. a surface meaning



C. an implied meaning









D. a negative meaning
35. Collocative meaning consists of the _________a word acquires in its
collocation. In other words, it is that part of the word-meaning suggested by the
words before or after the word in discussion.

A. associations
















B. occurrence



C. consideration















D. assumption
36. The synonyms of
pretty and handsome
offer good illustration of an English
collocation. These two words share the conceptual meaning of good-looking,
but are distinguished by the __________ of nouns they collocate with.
A. intensity




B. scope


C. range



D. degree

37. Concept, which is beyond language, is the result of human______, reflecting
the objective world in the human mind. It is universal to all men alike
regardless of culture, race, and language.
A. cognition


B. mentality


C. refection


D. ideology

38. Motivation accounts for the ______ between the linguistic symbol and its
meaning.
A. relation


B. complexion


C. circumstances


D. connection

39. Endings of nouns adjectives marking distinction of number, case and often
of gender lost their distinctive forms. The same is true of the verb. If we say
that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of
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________.
A. suffixed endings












B. leveled endings







C. complex endings












D. derived endings
40. In Modern English, word endings were mostly lost with just a few
exceptions. It can be concluded that English has evolved from a synthetic
language (Old English) to the present __________ language.
A. analytic


B. conventional




C. typological

D. diachronic

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II.

Section
A:
Complete
the
following
statements
with
proper
words
or
expressions according to the course book.

41. Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and _____of
words.
42. English lexicology aims at investigating and studying the ______ structures
of English
words
and word equivalents,
their semantics, relations, historical
development, formation and usages.
43. The surviving languages accordingly fall into eight principal groups , which
can be grouped into an Eastern set: Balto-Slavic , Indo-Iranian ,Armenian and
Albanian; a Western

set :Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, _______.
44. It is necessary to subdivide Modern English into Early (1500-1700) and Late
Modern English _____.
45. _________ is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words
or a word plus a part of another word . Words formed in this way are called
blends or pormanteau words.
46 A common way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a
part off the original and using what remains instead. This is called _______.
47.
In
modern
English
one
may
find
some
words
whose
sounds
suggest
their

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