英语词汇学复习题5

英语词汇学复习题 (五)

I. Some of the following statements are true, and the others false. Mark your answer by writing T or F on your answer sheet. (10%)

1. The great majority of the basic word stock of the English language are native words, that is, words of Anglo-Saxon origin.

2. Suffixation is different from conversion in that it does not change the word-class of the base.

3. Words of a semantic field are synonymous.

4. Clipping involves the deletion of one or more syllables from a word, which is also available in its full form.

5. Content words have lexical meaning but no grammatical meaning.

6. A particular characteristic of componential analysis is that it attempts to treat components in terms of binary opposites.

7. A root is the basic unchangeable part of a word.

8. Many English words cannot be analyzed in terms of semantic features. 9. All words have antonyms.

10. The impact of context on meaning differs from one word to another and from one instance or passage to another.

II. The following are multiple-choice questions. Mark your answer by writing A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet. (20%)

11. The English language from ______ to the present is called Modern English.

(A) 450 (B) 1100

(C) 1500 (D) 1800

12. The sentence “John was fired for petty thieving.” Is stylistically ________.

(A) literal (B) colloquial

(C) archaic (D) neutral

13. Of the following words, _____ is an acronym.

(A) OPEC (B) CIA

(C) stylistic (D) affective

14. The definition of a word given in the dictionary is called its _____ meaning.

(A) connotative (B) denotative

(C) stylistic (D) affective

15. In terms of oppositeness of meaning, ________ is a pair of conversives.

(A) “deep” and “shallow”

(B) “present” and “absent”

(C) “love” and “hate”

(D) “above” and “below”

16. In the group of words “ride, run, walk, go, fly”, “go” is a ________.

(A) superordinate term (B) hyponym

(C) subordinate term (D) hyponymy

17. The word “success” used to mean “result, outcome”, now it means “a favorable

outcome or result”. This is an example of __________ of meaning.

(A) elevation (B) degeneration

(C) extension (D) restriction

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