英语词汇学2017年10月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Use the following two groups of sentences as examples to illustrate how to use superordinates and subordinates.

(a) There was a fine rocking- chair that his further used to sit in, a desk where he wrote letters a nest of small tables and dark bookcase. Now all this furniture was to be sold, and with it his own past.

(b)1) Trees surround the water near our summer place,

2) Old elms surround the lake near our summer cabin

famous, skinny, notorious, slender, pigheaded, determined

Give the definition of affective meaning of words and use the above words to illustrate the two categories of the affective words.

Explain how context clues are used in the sentence "Their greatest, fear was of a conflagration since. fire would destroy their, flimsy wooden settlement before help could arrive".

What are the major sources of English synonyms?

What's the difference between prefixes and suffixes?

metonymy

What is affix? How to group affixes according to their functions?

radiation

context (in a narrow sense)

compounding

American dictionaries contain more______information in the main body than the British, for example, names of famous people, places of historical interest and the like.

creation

Structural______ is reflected in such idioms a by twos and threes, tit for tat, whose word order cannot be changed.

The word do conveys a number of meanings, but it means differently in "do one's teeth" and"do science at school". This example shows that______context will determine exactly what a word means.

The word journal originally denoted mere "daily paper", but now has come to include "periodical".______of meaning is reflected in this example.

______accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning.

Antonyms can be classified into three major groups: contradictory terms, contrary terms and ______terms.

According to the position which affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into two subclasses prefixation and ______.

In different languages the same concept can be represented by different______.For example, woman becomes “Frau” in German, and “femme”in French.

In Old English period, the introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary It brought many ______terms such as altar, amen and candle.

The basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity is a______.

Usage notes in LDCE New Edition (1987) cover the following EXCEPT______.

The reader cannot find pronunciation or meanings or usage but other information in______.

Which of the following is the best- known unabridged dictionary?

The following are rhetorical features of idioms EXCEPT_

The idiom “____”is an example of euphemism.

Ambiguity often arises due to_____, as is shown in the sentence "The fish is ready to eat."

That landlord means differently in western countries and in China shows that context has some effect on the meaning of words.

The idiom “___” is an idiom nominal in nature.

The context where the meaning of a word is influenced by the structure in which it occurs is called _____ context.

_____ reason is reflected in the meaning change of the word car, from " a two-wheel cart drawn by horses and used in war" to "automobile".

For the word nice, is original meaning was "ignorant, then changed to "foolish” and now it means "delightful, pleasant". This process is_____of word- meaning.

The word liquor once meant liquid, but now means alcoholic drink. This is an example of_____of word-meaning

Words like bow that bending bending the head as a greeting and bow that means the device used as shooting arrows are called___.

Which of the following groups of words shows difference of synonyms in denotation?

The central meaning of the word face is_____.

Which of the following examples shows that every word that has meaning has sense, but not every word has reference?

In modern English some words were created by imitating the natural sounds or noises, and the sounds suggest their meanings, like bang, croak, and buzz. These words are_____ motivated.

The following words are formed by chipping, EXCEPT_____.

In word meaning, the relationship between language and the word is_____ by means of which, a speaker indicates which things in the world are being talked about.

Which of the following words does NOT have suffixes?

The word that has a prefix of size is_____.

The formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class is called_____.

Which of the following is NOT true?

There is/are___ monomorphemic word(s) in the following words: cats, boss work, geese,tried.,

The smallest functioning unit in the composition of words is_____ .

There are such new words as fast food, talk shows, and open university in Modem English. These words show___.

The Indo-European language is made up of most of the languages of Europe,___ and India.

Newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meanings are_____.

Which of the following is NOT true about the definition of a word?

Words may fall into content words and functional words by___.