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1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流词汇学期末复习题及答案.精品文档.Supplementary Exercises for ME. Lexicology 1Part I Multiple choices.1. The definition of a word includes _. A. a minimal free form that can function alone B. a unit of meaning C. a sound unity D. all of the above 2. A word is _ of a language that has a give

2、n sound and meaning and syntactic function. A. a minimal free form B. a smallest meaningful unit C. an element which can not be further analyzed D. a grammatically minimal form 3. The Indo-European language family consist of_. A. all the languages in Europe and India B. all the languages in India an

3、d some languages in Europe. C. most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India.D. Some of the languages of Europe and all the languages of the Near East 4. The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always _.A. logical B. arbitrary C. inherent D. automatic 5. The pre

4、historic Indo-European parent language is thought to be _. A. A highly inflected language. B. A highly developed language. C. A very difficult language. D. A language of leveled endings. 6. More than one variant, which can realize some morphemes according to the position in a word, are termed .A. ph

5、onemes B. allomorphs C. morphs D. phones 7. Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as .A. morphemes B. derivational morphemes C. inflectional morphemes D. suffixes 8. is defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to

6、stem. This process is also known as . A. derivation, affixation B. affixation, derivation C. derivative, affixation D. affixation, derivative 9. Sometimes, the meaning of a compound can be inferred from its separate elements, for example, . A. hot dog B. red meat C. flower pot D. fat head 10. is uni

7、versal to all men alike regardless of culture, race, language and so on while belongs to language, so is restricted to language use. A. meaning, concept B. concept, meaning C. sense, reference D. reference, sense 11. When readers come across the word “home” in reading, they may be reminded of their

8、family, friends, warmth, safety, love. That is because of the “home” has _. A. collocations B. connotations C. denotations D. perorations 12. Which of the following belongs to a semantic field?A. steed, charger, palfrey, plug, nag B. pony, mustang, mule, stud, mare C. policeman, constable, bobby, co

9、p D. domicile, residence, abode, home 13. Which group of the following are perfect homonyms? A. dear (a loved person)deer (a kind of animal) B. bow (bending the head as a greeting)bow(the device used for shooting) C. bank (the edge of the river)bank (an establishment for money business) D. right (co

10、rrect)write (put down on paper with a pen) 14. The part of a piece of writing or speech which surrounds a word and helps to explain its meaning is called _. A. Linguistic context B. Grammatical context C. Extra-linguistic context D. Para-linguistic context 15. means through all difficulties and trou

11、bles. A. through high and low B. through thick and thin C .from head to foot D. from start to finishPart II True or false questions.1. A rule of word-formation is usually identical with a syntactic rule. 2. Word-formation rules themselves are not fixed but undergo changes to a certain extent. 3. Aff

12、ixes like “-th” are very productive in current English. 4. The chief function of prefixes is to change the word class of the stems. 5. The primary function of suffixes is to change the meaning of the stem. 6. Compounds are words formed by combining affixes and stems. 7. “-age, -al, -ance, -ation, -e

13、nce”in “linkage, dismissal, attendance, protection, existence” can produce largely concrete nouns by being added to verb stems. 8. The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of stems. 9. The free phrase has the primary stress on the first element and the secondary stress, if any, on the se

14、cond. 10. In both compounds and free phrases the adjective element can take inflectional suffixes. 11. Conversion is only a change of grammatical function of a lexical item with no loss of its different range of meaning originally conveyed. 12. A fully converted noun from an adjective has all the fe

15、atures of nouns except taking an indefinite article or, -(e)s to indicate singular or plural number. 13. Generally, conjunctions, modals, finite verbs, prepositions cant be converted to nouns. 14. Although blends and backformed words have already achieved popularity in English, they are not advisabl

16、e to be used frequently in formal writing. 15. Quite a number of derivational affixes have more than one meaning.16. Simple words in English are usually non-motivated.17. Lexical meaning is dominant in content words.18. Componential analysis has no disadvantages.19. Polysemic and homonymous words ar

17、e stylistically useful to achieving humor or irony, or to heighten dramatic effect.20. In most cases, the native term is more literary than the foreign one.Part III Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. 1. Morphemes are abstract_ units, whic

18、h are realized in speech by discrete units known as morph_. The morpheme is to the morph what a phoneme _ is to a phone. Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph. Such alternative morphs are known as allomorphs_. 2. A word is a minimal free_ form of a language that has a given sound and me

19、aning and syntactic function. 3. Functional words do not have notions of their own. Therefore, they are also called _empty_ words. 4. According to semantics, a word is a unit of meaning . 5. Bound morphemes include bound roots and affixes . 6. The most productivemeans of word formation are affixatio

20、n , compounding and conversion . 7. Only when a connection has been, established between the linguistic signand a referent , does the sign become meaningful. 8. Most morphemes are realized by single words like bird, tree, green, etc, Words of these kinds are called monomorphemic words. 9. With Norse

21、 invasion_, many Scandinavian words came into the English language.10. Antonyms are classified on the basis of semantic opposition .Part IV Explain the following terms with proper examples.1. Explain with examples morpheme, morph and allomorph2. Semantic field Part V Answer the following questions.1

22、. What is collocative meaning? Give at least one example to illustrate your point.2. Study the following sentence, paying special attention to the words in italics. If you find anything wrong, please explain why and then improve the sentence.The police were ordered to stop drinking about midnight.3.

23、 Analyzes the morphological structures of the following words and point out the types of the morphemes.unbearable, international, ex-prisonerAnswers for Exercise 1Part I Multiple choices.1-5 DACBA 6-10 BCBCB 11-15 BBCABPart II True or false questions.1.F 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.F 6.F 7.F 8.F 9.F 10.F 11.F 12.

24、F 13.F 14.T 15.T 16. T 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. F Part III Fill in the blanks.1. abstract, morph, phoneme, allomorphs 2. free 3. empty 4. meaning 5. bound, affixes 6. affixation, compounding, conversion 7. referent 8. monomorphemic 9. Norse invasion 10. semantic oppositionPart IV Explain the following

25、terms1. In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. A morpheme is free if it can stand alone, or bound if it is used exclusively alongside a free morpheme. Morphs are the actual phonetic representations of the same morpheme. An allomorph is a v

26、ariant form of the same morpheme, and all the morphs of the same morpheme are grouped as being the allomorphs of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound (phonologically) without changing meaning.English example: The word unbreakable has three morphemes: un-, a bound m

27、orpheme; break, a free morpheme; and -able, a bound morpheme. un- is also a prefix, -able is a suffix. Both un- and -able are affixes.The morpheme plural-s has the morph -s, /s/, in cats (/kts/), but -es, /z/, in dishes (/dz/), and even the voiced -s, /z/, in dogs (/dgz/). -s. These are allomorphs o

28、f the same morpheme plural -s.2. The concept is from the concept of “field” in physics, referring to the clustering of a number of semantically related words. A semantic field is a set of lexemes in a named conceptual area that interrelate and define each other in specific ways. A general descriptio

29、n is that words in a semantic field are not synonymous, but are all used to talk about the same general phenomenon. For example, the semantic field of “bugs” may include bees, spiders, moths, wasps, flies etc. According to semantic field theory a meaning of a word is dependent partly on its relation

30、 to other words in the same conceptual area. The kinds of semantic fields vary from culture to culture.Part V Answer the following questions.1. Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires in its collocation. In other words, it is that part of the word-meaning suggested by words

31、before or after the word in discussion. For example, pretty and handsome share the conceptual meaning of good looking, but are distinguished by the range of nouns they collocate with: pretty handsome.2. The police were ordered to stop drinking about midnight.（1）it is ambiguous（2）ambiguity caused by

32、the structure（3）stop drinking can be understood as 1）police stop drinking by themselves 2）police stop people drinking （4）improvement1）The police were ordered to stop people drinking about midnight.2）The police were ordered to stop drinking by themselves about midnight.3. Morpheme is the smallest lin

33、guistic unit that has semantic meaning. The morphological analysis of the three words are as follows:1) Each of the three words consists of three morphemes unbearable (un+bear+able), international (inter+nation+al), ex-prisoner(er+prison+er).2) Of the nine morphemes, only bear, nation and prison are

34、 free morphemes as they can exist by themselves.3) All the rest un-,-able, inter-,-al, ex-and-er are bound as none of them can stand alone as words.Supplementary Exercises for ME. Lexicology 2Part I Multiple choices.1. From the phrase “ a white paper”, we know that the meaning of the word “paper” he

35、re is “document”. This shows that the _ context can define the meaning of a word. A. extra-linguistic B. grammatical C. lexical D. situational2. The use of one name for that of another associated with it is rhetorically called _.A. synecdoche B. metonymyC. substitution D. metaphor3. Homophones are o

36、ften employed to create puns for desired effects A. humor B. sarcasm C. ridicule D. all the above4. Which of the following statements is Not correct? A. A word can be formed by two free morphemes B. A word can be formed by a free morpheme and a bound morpheme C. A word can be formed by two bound mor

37、phemes D. A word can be formed by any two affixes. 5. In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which shows _. A. the relationship between sound and meaning can not be established. B. there are different logical relations between sound and meaning C. the relat

38、ion between sound and meaning is a matter of convention D. the concepts are not really the same6. The two major factors that cause changes in meaning are _. A. historical reason and class reason B. historical reason an psychological reason C. class &psychological reason D. extra-linguistic factors &

39、linguistic factors7. Old English vocabulary was in essence _ with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian. A. Celtic B. Germanic C. Roman D. Irish8. is the basic form of a word, which cant be further analyzed without total loss of identity. A. Stem B. Root C. Morpheme D. Affix

40、 9. is that part of the word that carries the fundamental meaning but has to be used in combination with other morphemes to make words. A. Free root B. Bound root C. Morpheme D. Bound morpheme10. The most productive means of word-formation in modern English are the following except . A. compounding

41、B. affixation C. acronym D. conversion11. The meanings of many compounds and derivatives are the total of the combined. A. morphs B. allomorphs C. roots D. morphemes 12. The relationship between the word-form and meaning is _. Most words can be said to be_. A. prescriptive, motivated B. prescriptive

42、, non-motivated C. arbitrary, motivated D. arbitrary, non-motivated 13. _ is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of word-meaning. A. Grammatical meaning B. Denotative meaning C. Associative meaning D. Connotative meaning14. “parent/child, husband/wife, predecessor/successor” are _

43、 . A. contrary terms B. contradictory terms C. relative terms D. complementary terms15. “au revoir and Bye”is a pair of synonyms resulting from_. A. borrowing B. dialects and regional English C. figurative &euphemistic use of words D. with idiomatic expressions16. From the phrase “examination paper”

44、, we know that the meaning of the word “paper” here is “a set of questions at the end of the term”. This shows that the _ context can define the meaning of a word. A. extra-linguistic B. grammatical C. lexical D. situational17. means damage from continuous use.A. fair and spare B. toil and moil C. w

45、ear and tear D. kith and kin18. More often than not, functional words only have . A. lexical meaning B. associative meaning C. collocative meaning D. grammatical meaning19. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute _of the modern English vocabulary. A. 50 percent B. 50 percent C. 80 percent D. 65 percent20. Functional words do _