大学英语专业词汇学考试模拟试卷(3)

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (20 points)

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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 “literature” is borrowed from ____________.

A. German

B. Greek

C. French

D. Chinese

3. The word “brunch” is created by means of ____________.

A. affixation

B. back-formation

C. blending

D. abbreviation

4. A solid grasp of the usages of small words is very important in learning English. By small words we mean ____________.

A. function words

B. monosyllabic single verbs

C. phrasal verbs

D. all of the above

5. In terms of register, English idioms belong to ____________.

A. colloquial English

B. common core of the English language

C. slang

D. all of the above

6. The association of “husband” with “wife” is an application of ____________.

A. the minimal-contrast rule

B. the feature-deletion and –addition rule

C. the marking rule

D. the category preservation rule

7. The pair of antonyms “teach—learn” belong to ____________.

A. complemetaries

B. contraries

C. conversives

D. None of the above

8. The chief foreign elements in the vocabulary of the English language are _______.

A. Greek

B. Latin

C. French

D. All of the above

9. The derivational antonym of “pleasant” is ____________.

A. pleasure

B. unpleasant

C. disgusting

D. not pleasant

10. The pair of words “air — heir” belong to ____________.

A. homograph

B. homophone

C. full homonyms

D. none of the above

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