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1、英语词汇学复习题(一)I.Decidewhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalse.CircleTorFasyouseefitonyouranswersheet.(10%)1.Thebasicwordstockofalanguageischangingrapidlyallthetime.2.Afreemorphemeisawordinthetraditionalsense.3.Thetotalnumberoffunctionalwordsisverylimited

2、inEnglish.4.EveryEnglishwordhasitsmotivation.5.AlltheaffixesinEnglishareveryproductive.6.Themeaningofaword,especiallythatofapolysemousword,isoftendeterminedbythecontextinwhichitappears.7.Somesynonymsareconnectedwitheuphemismsandvulgarisms.8.Theinteraction

3、betweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishislargelyfromwesttoeastnowadays.9.Ifanativewordhasaborrowedsynonym,theforeignwordisalwaysmoreliterarythanthenativeone.10.Asynchronicdictionaryisadictionaryofcontemporarywords.II.Thefollowingaremultiple-choicequestion

4、s.MarkyouranswerbycirclingA,B,CorDonyouranswersheet.(20%)11.ThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguagebeganwiththeconquestandsettlementofwhatisnowEnglandbythe_________.(A)Romans(B)Danish(C)Angles,SaxonsandJutes(D)Normans12.Thesentence“Feelingfatigued,Tomretiredearly”

5、isstylistically__________.(A)colloquial(B)slangy(C)literary(D)neutral13.Amorphemeisatwo-facetlanguageunit,whichpossessesboth________.(A)functionandmeaning(B)lettersandmeaning(C)syllableandmeaning(D)soundandmeaning14.Ahybridisawordmadeupofelementsbelonging

6、totwoormore_________.(A)foreignlanguages(B)differentlanguages(C)Germaniclanguages(D)Romancelanguages15.InEnglishthemostproductivetypeofconversionisconversion__________.(A)fromverbtoadjective(B)fromadjectivetonoun(C)fromnountoadjective(D)fromnountoverb16.T

7、hemajorityofback-formedwordsare___________.(A)nouns(B)adjectives(C)verbs(D)adverbs17.“Statesman”isanappreciativewordwhereas“politician”isa_________.(A)colloquialword(B)derogatoryword(C)purrword(D)neutralword18.“Happy”and“unhappy”are____________.(A)non-gra

8、dableantonyms(B)rootantonyms(C)derivationalantonyms(D)conversives19.ThelanguagebroughttoNorthAmericabytheBritishexplorersintheseventeenthcenturybelongstotheearlystageof_______.(A)OldEnglish(B)MiddleEnglish(C)ModernE