试题种类:单项选择
1. 题干: Functional words are ________.
选项:1. adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
2. adjective, nouns, articles
3. articles, prepositions, conjunctions 4.verbs, pronouns, prepositions
答案: 3
2. 题干: The Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English. ______ of them are still in use today. 选项: 1.Eighty-five percent
2. Fifty-six percent
3.Seventy-two percent 4. Seventy-five percent
答案: 4
3. 题干: Stylistic meaning may be defined as the feature of_____ of words.
选项:1.formality
2. affectiveness 3.appropriateness 4. part of speech
答案: 3
4. 题干: Non-basic vocabulary includes ________. 选项: 1.argot and jargon
2. archaisms and neologisms 3.technical terms 4. all the above
答案: 4
5. 题干: Of the five characteristics listed for the basic word stock, the most important is ________. 选项: 1.all national character
2. productivity
3.polysemy 4.collocability
答案: 1
6. 题干: Which of the following is NOT true________. 选项: 1. A word is the smallest form of a langue
2. A word is a sound unity 3. A word has a given meaning
4.A word can be used freely in a sentence
答案: 1
7. 题干: Which of the following is NOT studied in semantics? 选项: 1.polysemy
2.language family
3.ambiguity 4.complementaries
答案: 2
8. 题干: The hyponyms of ?vegetable? are ________. 选项: 1.banana, pear, jam
2. pear, apple, banana 3. cucumber, celery, peas 4.tree, pine, elm
答案: 3
9. 题干: The discrete units which realize morphemes are known as ________. 选项: 1.allomorphs 2. phonemes
3.morphs 4. lexis
答案: 3
10. 题干: _________ is a word-formation process by which a word is changed from one word-class into another without the change of form. 选项: 1. Blending
2. Affixation 3.Back-formation 4.Conversion
答案: 4
11. 题干: The first monolingual English dictionary was compiled in ________. 选项: 1.1604
2. 1066 3. 1406 4.1046
答案: 1
12. 题干: “Failure is the mother of success.” Is an example of ________. 选项: 1. euphemism
2.personification 3.metonymy 4. metaphor
答案: 2
13. 题干: “child—parent” are _______ antonyms. 选项: 1. root
2. derivative 3. relative
4.complementary 答案: 3
14. 题干: The word “water” is _________ motivated. 选项: 1.phonetically
2. semantically 3.morphologically 4.non-
答案: 4
15. 题干: “Give somebody an inch and he?ll take a mile” is a _________. 选项: 1.sentence idiom
2.proverb 3.clause idiom 4.both A and B
答案: 4
16. 题干: Narrowing excludes ________.
选项: 1.change from material nouns to common nouns
2.change from common nouns to proper nouns
3.words shortened from phrases to retain the meaning of the whole for economy
4.change from specific meanings to general meanings 答案: 4
17. 题干: According to the idiomaticity of idioms, idioms include ________. 选项: 1.true idioms 2. semi-idioms
3. regular combinations 4. all the above 答案: 4
18. 题干: Motel is a/an is ________. 选项: 1.blend
2. clipped word 3.initialism 4. acronym
答案: 1
19. 题干: “sow” (to plant seeds on the ground) and “sow” (fully grown female pig )are called ________. 选项: 1.Homophones
2. homographs
3.perfect homonyms 4.acronyms
答案: 2
20. 题干: “die” and “pass away” are synonyms. They differ in ________. 选项: 1.connotative meaning
2. emotive meaning 3.stylistic meaning 4.all the above
答案: 4
21. 题干: He?s nice, but he hasn?t much brain. _________. 选项: 1. Simile
2. metaphor 3.Metonymy 4.synecdoche
答案: 3
22. 题干: Which of the following is not associative meaning? 选项: 1.collocative meaning
2.stylistic meaning 3.affective meaning 4.primary meaning
答案: 4
23. 题干: One billion is ________ in British English. 选项: 1. 1,000,000,000
2.1,000,000,000,000 3.1,000,000
4.1,000,000,000,000,000
答案: 2
24. 题干: The morpheme “-s” in “desks” is ________ morpheme. 选项: 1.derivational
2. free
3. inflectional 4. root
答案: 3
25. 题干: ________ are contrary terms. 选项: 1.dead / alive
2. parent / child
3. single / married 4. like / dislike
答案: none
26. 题干: The first people known to inhabit the British Isles were ________. Their languages were dialects of still another branch of the In-do-European Language Family ________.
选项: 1.German / Germanic
2. Celts / Celtic
3.Italian / Italic 4. Sweden / Swedish
答案: 2
27. 题干: The modes of modem English vocabulary grow through three major channels: ________ , semantic change and __________. 选项: 1.exchange/lending
2. derivation/borrowing 3.creation/borrowing 4.affixation/creation
答案: 3
28. 题干: Conversion is a method of ______.
选项: 1.turning words of one part of speech into those of a different part of speech
2.converting words of one meaning into those of a different meaning 3. deriving words by grammatical means
4. changing words in morphological structure
答案: 1
29. 题干: Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of _________. 选项: 1. prefixation
2.suffixation 3.acronymy 4.conversion
答案: 2
30. 题干: Associative meaning is NOT affected by _________. 选项: 1. experience
2.culture 3.language 4. education
答案: 3