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I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose
the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)
1. Words may fall into native words and borrowed words by ______.( )
A. use frequency tB. notion
C. origin tD. sound
2. Which of the following words does NOT belong to jargon? ( )
A. Orchestra. tB. Bottom line.
C. Ballpark figures. tD. Bargaining chips.
3. In the sentence “It is fun to play with children.”, there are ______ content words. ( )
A. 2 tB. 3
C. 4 tD. 5
4. Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.( )
A. open heart surgery tB. fast food
C. moon walk tD. space shuttle
5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, the Americans use “sick” for ______ in British English. ( )
A. six tB. ailment
C. throwing up tD. ill
6. If we say that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of ______ endings. ( )
A. leveled tB. short
C. long tD. paralleled
7. The plural morpheme “-s” is pronounced as/s/in the following words EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. packs tB. bags
C. cheats tD. ships
8. There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words: bird, man, red, turn.( )
A. 1 tB. 2
C. 3 tD. 4
9. The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. subsea tB. prewar
C. postwar tD. desks
10. The suffix “-tion” is a ______ suffix. ( )
A. adjective tB. verb
C. adverb tD. noun
11. From the sentences “Hand in your papers.” and “She papered the room green.”, we can see such a means of word formation as ______. ( )
A. affixation tB. compounding
C. conversion tD. acronymy
12. The word “beg” comes from the word “beggar”. Such a way of creating a new word is called ______. ( )
A. suffixation tB. clipping
C. blending tD. back-formation
13. “Pen” and “sword” in the sentence “The pen is mightier than the sword.” are ______ motivated words. ( )
A. semantically tB. etymologically
C. morphologically tD. onomatopoeically
14. “Tables, men, potatoes” have the same ______ meaning, for they have the same plural meaning. ( )
A. lexical tB. grammatical
C. conceptual tD. associative
15. Stylistic features of words include the following EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. formal tB. literary
C. argumentative tD. slang
16. The word ______ is an illustrative example of concatenation. ( )
A. neck tB. board
C. candidate tD. harvest
17. Based on the degree of ______, homonyms fall into three classes: perfect homonyms, homographs and homophones. ( )
A. intensity tB. property
C. similarity tD. variety
18. Complete synonyms are identical both in grammatical meaning and
lexical meaning, including ______ and associative meanings. ( )
A. conceptual tB. perceptual
C. eventual tD. actual
19. Narrowing of meaning, also called ______, is the opposite of widening meaning. ( )
A. specialization tB. realization
C. evolution tD. creation
20. As far as transfer is concerned, the phrase “loud colours” falls into the category of transfer ______.( )
A. from concrete to abstract meanings
B. from abstract to concrete meanings
C. through association
D. of sensations
21. In the sentence “She said with an embarrassed laugh.”, the word “embarrassed” can be classified into ______ sense of transfer. ( )
A. subjective tB. objective
C. sensational tD. physical
22. Based on ______ context, we can determine the meaning of “do the flowers”. ( )
A. cultural tB. grammatical
C. lexical tD. situational
23. Physical situation or environment relating to the use of words is called ______ or non-linguistic context. ( )
A. extra-linguistic tB. lexical
C. grammatical tD. syntactical
24. In the sentence “Many United Nations employees are polyglots. Mr. Mary, for example, speaks five languages.”, the word “polyglot” is explained by ______ clue. ( )
A. definition tB. example
C. synonymy tD. hyponymy
25. Which of the following is NOT one of the stylistic features of idioms? ( )
A. Frozen style. tB. Slang.
C. Literary style. tD. Colloquialisms.
26. “Chop and change” is an idiom ______ in nature. ( )
A. verbal tB. nominal
C. adjectival tD. adverbial
27. The change of idiom “the last straw” from the original form is ______.( )
A. replacement tB. dismembering
C. addition tD. shortening
28. Encyclopedic dictionaries can be further divided into ______ and encyclopedic dictionaries. ( )
A. linguistic tB. encyclopedia
C. specialized tD. unabridged
29. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English is a(n) ______ dictionary. ( )
A. specialized tB. desk
C. pocket tD. encyclopedic
30. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDCE) was noted for the following aspects EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. its wide coverage of new words, new meanings and new usages
B. its simple and clear definitions
C. its use of extra column
D. its meticulous and complete grammatical information
Ⅱ. Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of vocabulary by notion; 2) types of morphemes; 3) sense relations and 4) types of idioms. (10% )
A tB
( ) 31. rich/well-to-do/poor tA. contradictory term of antonym
( ) 32. call it a day tB. superordinate/subordinate
( ) 33. sow v. to scatter seeds/sow n. female adult pigtC. homograph
( ) 34. recollection/idealistic tD. idiom nominal in nature
( ) 35. employer/employee tE. notional words
( ) 36. without/behind tF. relative term of antonym
( ) 37. fish/herring tG. bound morphemes
( ) 38. c