英语词汇学2016年4月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Illustrate the differences between blending and clipping by taking motel, medicare, quake, flu as examples.

Explain context in a narrow sense.He was in a mood of complete euphoria, his happiness being the result of an announcement that he had won the sweepstakes.

Comment on the following pair of sentences in terms of superordinates and subordinates.A)Trees surround the water near our summer place.B)Old elms surround the lake near our summer cabin.

How policeman, constable, bobby and cop differ in the sense of connotation?

Group the following words into denominal nouns, deverbal nouns and de-adjectival nouns, according to the noun suffixes fixed at the end of each word.cigarette，slavery, productivity，protection, assistant，trainee, largeness，friendship

idioms

What does the following group of words show us as regards the main sources of new words?soy milk, family movies, telequiz, Watergate, open university

elevation (referring to word meaning)

morpheme

onomatopoeic motivation

content words

Phrasal verbs are idioms which are composed of a____plus a prep, and/or a particle.

For someone who needs a dictionary by their side to check spelling, or the meaning of an occasional word from his/her reading, a____dictionary can be good.

The word computer formerly meant a “person who computes”. At present, it refers to an“electronic machine” rather than a person. This example shows the fact that it often happens a word is retained for a name though the____has changed because the referent has changed.

____context refers to the words that occur together with the word in question. The meaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighboring words.

The development of word-meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses, traditionally known as____and concatenation.

____is the relationship between language and the world.For example, the form cat is meaningful because the language user employs it conventionally to refer to the “animal” concerned.

In the words machines, harder, worked, -s, -er,-ed are called____affixes.

According to the____that affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into prefixation and suffixation.

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

Technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas are called ____.

With the Normans invading England in 1066, the Norman Conquest started a continual flow of____words into English.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

When you see “theatre AmE theater” in a dictionary,you can get information of____.

The English idiom____means “relatives or family”.

The idiom diamond cut diamond is grammatically incorrect, for normally the verb cut should take the third person singular -s. However, we use it as it is. This shows that____.

The rhetorical device of alliteration is used in the idiom____.

He is a hard businessman.The above sentence has ambiguity due to____.

____is used as context clue in the following sentence: It's just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors—those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as “silicon chips”.

Many familiar words have different meanings, when they are used in different contexts. Study the following sentences carefully and decide in which sentence fix means "predicamenf".

The word silly used to mean “happy”，but now means “foolish”. This example shows____of meaning.

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

Purse for “money”，dish for “food” are all instances of____transfer.

When a word is coined, it is always monosemic.But in the course of development, the same symbol must be used to express more meanings. The result is____.

In the sense relations, the words right and write belong to____.

As a result of____—one of the sources of synonyms, gain the upper hand becomes the synonym of win.

From much money, many books, we can see that even in the same language the same____can be expressed in different words.

Associative meaning comprises the following types EXCEPT____.

____explains the connection between the literal sense and figurative sense of a word.

Of the following prefixes,____is a prefix of degree.

Which of the following words is NOT a compound?

Which of the following is a stem in the word internationalists?

The expansion of vocabulary in modem English depends chiefly on____.

Root words like man, earth, anger are also called____.

There are____morphemes in the words collection, idealistic, prisoner.

New words or expressions like astrobiology, earthrise, open heart surgery come into present-day English vocabulary due to____.

English words may fall into content words and functional words by____.

The Indo-European is made up of most of the languages of the following areas EXCEPT____.

In the 9th century, England was invaded by Norwegian and Danish Vikings and many____words came into the English language.

The definition of a word comprises the following points EXCEPT____.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and____of words.