1、“lose face” is a(n) _________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
semantic loan denizen alien
translation loan
2、The United Nations has appealed for help from the ________ community.
1. 2. 3. 4.
A. within-national intra-national international in-national
3、Come on! Cheer up! Don’t just sit here as stiff as a ________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
poker patient queen king
4、You were not seriously injured. Don’t make a _________ out of a _________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
mountain, molehill mount, molehill hill, molehill molehill, mountain
5、After a meal in a restaurant, you ask the waiter for the _________.
1.
note
2. 3. 4.
receipt bill menu
6、Words with such clusters as “ch”, “ph”, “pn”, “rh” as in chasm, phone, pneumatic and rhetoric are most proba
1. 2. 3. 4.
German Chinese Greek Latin
7、In “Tom’s family keep a good table”, the word table means ________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
food and drinks served at meals none of the above
people assembled around a table, as at meals
the piece of furniture with a flat horizontal surface supported by one or more vertical legs
8、We eventually ran out of patience with his ________ behaviour.
1. 2. 3. 4.
childish childlike child childy
9、He was ________ of having asked such a silly question.
1. 2. 3.
miserable guilty sorry
4. ashamed
10、I took only a _________ of beans with me and left.
1. 2. 3. 4.
hand handful handy handed
11、The missiles missed their _________, so the research group did not reach its _________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
target, target goal, goal goal, target target, goal
12、No new ideas _______ from the meeting.
1. 2. 3. 4.
merged submerged emerged immerged
13、Which of the following words has gone through the semantic change of subjectification?
1. 2. 3. 4.
corn gossip maid very
14、Having lost the match, the team went home in ________ spirits.
1. 2. 3. 4.
D. dark deep low empty
15、The Old English word stān means ________ in modern English.
1. 2. 3. 4.
stalig stole stain stone
16、After his recovery from illness, he ________ his former position.
1. 2. 3. 4.
C. presumed resumed assumed consumed
17、In “Elizabeth could hear voices through the open door”, the word door means ________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
the moveable barrier in the entrance to a building, room, cupboard, car, etc. the channel to a certain place None of the above the panel board
18、Among the synonymous group, old man, daddy, dad, father and male parent, ________ would most probably u
1. 2.
B. male parent father
3. 4.
old man dad
19、Which of the following usually appears in poems?
1. 2. 3. 4.
nag steed horse gee-gee
20、The main characters in the novel seem so true to life, but actually, they are entirely ________.
1. 2. 3. 4.
imaginative imagined imaginable imaginary
判断题
21、Old English is a non-inflectional language.
1. 2.
A.√ B.×
22、Many words in English vocabulary are compositional.
1. 2.
A.√ B.×
23、In “I haven’t seen you for ages”, hyperbole is employed.
1. 2.
A.√ B.×