英语词汇学2017年4月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

What is the fundamental difference between the process of radiation and concatenation, and how are they closely related?

Explain the misunderstanding of the phrase “look out” in the following situation: when someone on the second floor was ready to pour water out of the window, he called "Loo out!" to warn the people outside in the street to go away. But the man on the first floor heard the cry and stretched his head out of the window. just in time to receive the water.

Comment on the following two sentences to illustrate the difference between conversion and affixation.

A、They room right! next to me.

B、She tried to beautify her room with posters and plants.

What are the three classes that homonyms fall into, based on the degree of similarity?

What are the three channel through which modem English vocabulary develops?

The following words are formed by means of suffixation. Group the following words into noun suffixes, verb suffixes and adjective suffixes..darken, economical, socialist, decision, beautify. modernize, adulthood, successful, childish

etymological motivation

phrasal verbs

degradation of meaning

monomorphemic words

Dialectal words

For beginners and elementary learners, a______dictionary is essential as they do not know enough of the target language to understand fully a monolingual dictionary.

In some cases, the meanings of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is what we call______context.

All sentence idioms are complete sentences. They are mainly proverbs and including colloquialisms and catchphrases.

The synonymous pair like die -pass away has the same______but different socio- cultural and stylistic values.

Churl, hussy, wench, villain were originally neutral in color but have all down-graded as ill-mannered or bad people". This example shows that the attitudes of______have also made inroads into lexical meaning in the case of degradation.

Absolute synonyms are words which are identical in meaning in all aspects, i.e. both in grammatical meaning and ___meaning.

In modern times, the most important way of vocabulary expansion is______of new words by means of word-formation.

In the words or expressions desks, the children’s library, happiest, -s, -s’, -est are called______affixes.

The prefixes in words like disobey injustice, immature, unfair are prefixes.

Which of the following is NOT the proper Chinese equivalent for its English item?

In Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, one of he entries of the word blood says: [c] old use a fashionable young man. The information that is NOT provided under this entry is___.

The specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves are referred to as______.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

The rhetorical device of rhyme is used in the idiom “ ______ ."

The idiom tit for tat is not to be turned into tat for tit. This shows that______.

The English idiom "______" means "something useless and unwanted but big and costly”.

______is used as context clue in the following sentence: The village had most of the usual amenities: a pub, a library, a post office and a school.

The ball was attractive.The above sentence has ambiguity due to______.

Many familiar words have different meanings when they are used in different contexts. Study the following sentences carefully and decide in which sentence stage means "to plan, arrange and carry out.

Which of the following words has NOT undergone extension of meaning?

The word accident originally meant "event", but now means " unfortunate event" only. This example shows______of meaning.

Pityful originally meant “-full of pity". but now has changed to "deserving pity. This example shows______.

There was a fine rocking-chair his father used to sit in, a nest of small tables and a dark imposing bookcase. Now all this furniture was to be sold, and with it his own past.We can see coherence by____ in the above sentences.

From the diachronic point of view,______is assumed to be the result of growth and development of the semantic structure of one and same word.

The difference between rich and wealthy shows that synonyms may differ in__.

Which of the following words is NOT an onomatopoeically- motivated word?

The word like airmail is a(n)______ word, since one can figure out its meaning from each morpheme of the word.

Pregnant, expecting，in the chub can have the same conceptual meaning. but differ in their___ values.

Of the following prefixes,______ is a prefix of attitude.

Nouns like help, cheat are converted from verbs of the same form, indicating______.

The most productive means of vocabulary expansion in modern English are the following EXCEPT______.

There is an inflectional affix in the word______.

For the word contradiction, -dict is called a(n)______.

In early Middle English period, English, Latin and______existed side by side.

New words or expressions like green revolution space shuttle, moon walk come into present-day English vocabulary due to______.

For the words collection, idealist, ex-prisoner, only collect ideal, prison are______.

Which of the flowing statements is NOT true?

English words may fall into the basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary by______.

The world has about 3000 languages, which can be grouped into roughly 300 language families on the basis of similarities in their basic word stock and______.

English Iexicology is chiefly concerned with the basic ______of words in general and of English words in particular.