大学英语专业词汇学考试模拟试卷(1)
I. Choose the best from the four answers provided for each question. (20 points)
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true? B A. Shakespeare’s poem ―What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet‖ is a reflection of the conventionalist’s opinion concerning the relationship between sound and meaning.
B. Facts have proved the naturalists to be valid concerning the relationship between sound and meaning.
C. The conventionalists hold that the relations between sound and meaning are conventional and arbitrary.
D. The fact that words with the same meaning have different phonological forms in different languages supports the conventionalists.
2. The word ―brunch‖ is formed from ―breakfast‖ and ―lunch‖. Such a process of word-formation is called ___C_________.
A. affixation B. back-formation C. blending D. abbreviation
3. It’s easy for us to associate ―husband‖ with ―wife‖. Such an association is an application of ____D________.
A. the minimal-contrast rule
B. the feature-deletion and –addition rule C. the marking rule
D. the category preservation rule
4. The pair of antonyms ―teach—learn‖ belong to ___C_________.
A. complementaries B. contraries C. conversives D. None of the above
5. The derivational antonym of ―pleasant‖ is ________B____.
A. pleasure B. unpleasant C. disgusting D. not pleasant
6. The pair of words ―air — heir‖ belong to ___C_________.
A. homograph B. homophone
C. full homonyms D. none of the above
7. The major difference between ―propaganda‖ and ―publicity‖ lies in their _____B_______.
A. distribution B. emotional coloring C. stylistic coloring D. collocation
8. The semantic relationship between ―spinach‖ and ―vegetable‖ is a kind of _____C_______.
A. hyponymy B. antonymy C. synonymy D. homonymy
9. ____________ are related in the same way as the pair of words ―Mystery: Clue‖ are related to each other.
A. Book: reader B. fruit: bowl C. door: key D. detective: crime
10. The word ―nice‖ originally meant ―foolish‖, and now it means ―pleasant‖. This process of semantic change is called ___C____.
A. degeneration B. generalization C. elevation D. specialization
11. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the formula ―word – concept – referent‖? D
A. A concept is the base of the meaning of a word. B. A concept is an abstraction from the referents. C. The formula shows that the word refers to the referent through a concept.
D. There is a direct relationship between a word and its referent.
12. ____C________ means using a form that represents one part of speech as another part of speech without changing the form of the word.
A. Blending B. Conversion C. Shortening D. Affixation
13. The semantic feature used to distinguish between ―bachelor‖ and ―spinster‖ is _______D_____.
A. [Human] B. [Adult] C. [Common] D. [Male]
14. ____________ is characterized by full inflections. A. Old English B. Middle English C. Early Modern English D. Modern English
15. The word ―gold-collar‖ is created by imitating the word ―blue-collar‖. This kind of analogy is based on ____B________.
A. number B. color
C. oppositeness in meaning D. space
16. In terms of register, most English idioms belong to ____________.
A. colloquial English
B. common core of the English language