英语词汇学2010年7月真题试题及答案解析（00832）

Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "Madam, in times like these no butcher can make both ends meet. "

How do you use a dictionary to the full?

Analyze and comment on the following statement.

As most words have more than one meaning, it is often impossible to tell the meaning of a word before it is used in context.

What is concept? Give an example to illustrate your point.

What are the three periods in view of the development of English vocabulary?

How many types do bound morphemes include? What are they?

unabridged dictionary

dismembering of idiom

blending

bound morphemes

affixes

Structural patterns where a particular word is used is called ______ context.

Idioms verbal in nature can be subdivided into ______ verbs and other verb phrases.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the best-known ______ dictionary.

Hyponymy can be described in terms of ______ graphs, with higher-order superordinates above the lower subordinates.

Lexical meaning of a word has two concepts: ______ meaning and associative meaning.

In Old English, animals and their ______ share the same name.

The prefix "un-" in the word "unwrap"is a ______ prefix.

In modern English, word endings were mostly lost with just a few exceptions because English has evolved from a ______ language to the present analytic language.

The morphemes can be grouped into ______ morphemes and bound morphemes.

______ are newly-created words or expressions,, or words that have taken on new meanings.

idealistic

VOA

flu

steel

medicare

rich/wealthy

answer/reply

B

A. difference in application

B. difference in denotation

C. bound morpheme

D. clipping

E. functional word

F. content word

G. compounding

H. initialism

I. blending

J. difference in connotation

A

honeybee

upon

handy/manual

Which of the following is NOT true for the Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition)(CED)(1995)?

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1983) is a(n) ______ dictionary.

The following are the unique features of Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary EXCEPT ______.

The change of idiom "Silence is golden" from the original form is ______.

Never do things by halves is a(n) ______.

Which of the following is NOT a figure of speech?

The sentence "The fish is ready to eat." is ambiguous due to ______.

In the sentence "Perhaps the most startling theory to come out of kinesics, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Birdwhistell." The meaning of kinesics can be inferred from the clue of _______.

Due to ______ reason, a word is retained for a name though the meaning has changed because the referent has changed.

Among the following words only ______ is the word which originally had a specialized meaning and now has become generalized.

Based on ______ context, we can arrive at the meaning of “do a sum”.

There are five types of meaning changes and among which ______ are the most common.

______, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison.

Want, wish, like and desire are synonyms, but as far as intensity is concerned, ______ is the strongest of all.

In modern English, an overwhelming majority of words are ______.

The word“______”is an onomatopoetically motivated word.

Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______.

______ is the relationship between language and the world.

"Champagne", a common noun, comes from a ______.

The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes is called ______.

The prefix "over-" in the word "overweight" is a prefix of ______.

The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.

The word "prisoner" comprises ______ morphemes.

The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into the Eastern set and the _______ set.

The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/z/in the following words EXCEPT ______.

Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops?

Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.

______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves.

As defined in terms of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or combination of sounds which are made voluntarily with human ______ equipment.