08词汇学试题A.doc

2008-2009学年第一学期《英语词汇学》课程期末考试试卷（A） ———年级—————专业 学生姓名——————学号— 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(30%). Homonyms are generally words different in ____ but either identical both in____ or identical only in____. sound/meaning and spelling/meaning or spelling meaning/sound and spelling /sound or spelling spelling/meaning and sound/sound or spelling none of the above Relative synonyms also called near-synonyms are similar or nearly the same in_____. stylistic meaning affective meaning conceptual meaning co locative meaning ____ is not the narrowing of word-meaning. a common word is turned into a proper noun some phrases are shortened and only one element of the original is left to retain the meaning of whole Material nouns are used to refer to objects made of them An word of abstract meaning is used as a conctete meaning Extra-linguistic factors of word-meaning change include____. historical and class reason historical and psychological reason psychological and class reason all the above Borrowing ads a source of homonymy in English can be illustrated by_____. long(not short) fair(a market) rock(rock’n’roll) ad(advertisement) The functions of context don’t include____. elimination of ambiguity indication of referents provision of clues for inferring word-meaning leading to ambiguity During American Civil War, the word “ Copperhead”, a venomous snake in the South of America, was endowed with the new meaning “ the northerners who were secretly aiding and abetting the south” because of ___. class reason psychological reason historical reason religious reason The most important sources of synonyms are perhaps ____. dialects and regional English borrowing figurative and euphemistic use of words coincidence with idiomatic expressions Homographs are words identical only in ____ but different in two other aspects. sound meaning spelling sense Connotative mean