词汇学测试2

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (90%)

1. Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of ______. ( D )

A. humour B. sarcasm C. ridicule D. all the above

2. Grammatical context refers to ______ in which a word is used. ( C )

A. vocabulary B. grammar

C. syntactic structure D. semantic pattern

3. Which of the following words is not formed through clipping? ( B )

A Dorm B. Motel C. Gent D. Zoo

4. _______ is a semantic process in which the primary meaning stands at the center and the secondary meanings proceed out of it in every direction like rays. ( A ) A. Radiation B. Concatenation C. Derivation D. Inflection

5. _____ refer to one of two or more words in the English language which have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning. ( B )

A. Polysemants B. Synonyms C. Antonyms D. Hyponyms

6. The sense relation between the two words “tulip” and “flower” is ______. ( A )

A. hyponymy B. synonymy C. polysemy D. antonymy

7. _________ are words identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning, e.g. bow/bau/; bow/beu/. ( A )

A. Homographs B. Homophones C. Perfect homonyms D. Antonyms 8. The antonyms: male and female are ______. ( A )

A. contraries B. complementaries

C. conversives D. derivational antonyms

9. From the diachronic point of view, when the word was created, it was endowed with only one meaning . The first meaning is called ______. ( C ) A. central meaning B. basic meaning C. primary meaning D.derived meaning 10. “Happy” and “unhappy” are ____________. ( B )

A. gradable antonyms B. root antonyms C. derivational antonyms D. conversives

11. Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its _____. ( D )

A. form B. pronunciation C. spelling D. meaning

12. The word “______” is an onomatopoetically motivated word. ( A )

A. miaow B. sword C. laconic D. airmail 13. ______, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison. ( A )

A. Synchronically B. Diachronically C. Etymologically D. Onomatopoetically

14. Based on ______ context, we can arrive at the meaning of “do a sum”. ( D )

A. grammatical B. lexical C. cultural D. non-linguistic 15. ______ meaning refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships.( A )

A. Lexical C. Associative

B. Conceptual D. Grammatical

16. ______ is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages because overwhelming majority of words have more than one meaning.( A )

A. Polysemy C. Synonymy

A. hyponym,subordinate C. polysemant, monosemant

B. Hyponymy D. Homonymy

B. superordinate, subordinate D. lower, upper

17. A______ term is general and a/an______ term is specific.( D )

18. Context is very important for the understanding of word-meaning because the meaning is influenced immediately by the ______ context, and in many cases by the whole______ as well.( D )

A. lexical, linguistic context C. grammatical, lexical context

B. linguistic, speech situation D. lexical, extra-linguistic context

19. Which of the following is NOT true about extra-linguistic context? ( A )

A. It can be subdivided into grammatical context and non-linguistic context. B. It refers to physical situation or environment relating to the use of words. C. It embraces the people, time and place.

D. It may extend to embrace the entire cultural background.

20. Which of the following is one of the main functions of verbal context? ( D )

A. Elimination of ambiguity. B. Indication for referents.

C. Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning. D. All the above.

21. In a narrow sense, context refers to the words, clauses, sentences in which a word appears and is known as ______ context. ( B )

A. non-linguistic C. grammatical

______ field of „colours‟. ( B )

A. stylistic C. elliptic

between the sign and meaning. ( C )

A. 2 C. 4 its origin. ( D )

A. onomatopoeic C. semantic

B. linguistic D. lexical

22. Red, scarlet, mauve, violet, lavender, pansy, black, purple, etc, make up the

B. semantic D. syntactic

23. In English there are ______ types of motivation that concerns the relationship

B. 3 D. 5

24. By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to

B. morphological D. etymological

25. Synonyms are classified into several kinds.The words such as start, begin, and commence can be called ________ synonyms.( B )

A.dialectal C.emotive

B.stylistic D.collocational