词汇学-- 题.docx

Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Circle T or F as you see fit on your answer sheet. (10%)
1. The basic word stock of a language is changing rapidly all the time.
2. A free morpheme is a word in the traditional sense.
3. The total number of functional words is very limited in English.
4. Every English word has its motivation.
5. All the affixes in English are very productive.
6. The meaning of a word, especially that of a polysemous word, is often determined by the context in which it appears.
7. Some synonyms are connected with euphemisms and vulgarisms.
8. The interaction between American English and British English is largely from west to east nowadays.
9. If a native word has a borrowed synonym, the foreign word is always more literary than the native one.
10. A synchronic dictionary is a dictionary of contemporary words.
II. The following are multiple-choice questions. Mark your answer by circling A,B, C or D on your answer sheet. (20%)
11. The history of the English language began with the conquest and settlement of what is now England by the _________.
(A) Romans
(B) Danish
(C) Angles, Saxons and Jutes
(D) Normans
12. The sentence “Feeling fatigued, Tom retired early” is stylistically __________.
(A) colloquial
(B) slangy
(C) literary
(D) neutral
13. A morpheme is a two-facet language unit, which possesses both ________.
(A) function and meaning
(B) letters and meaning
(C) syllable and meaning
(D) sound and meaning
14. A hybrid is a word made up of elements belonging to two or more _________.
(A) foreign languages
(B) different languages
(C) Germanic languages
(D) Romance languages
15. In English the most productive type of conversion is conversion __________.
(A) from verb to adjective
(B) from adjective to noun
(C) from noun to adjective
(D) from noun to verb
16. The majority of back-formed words are ___________.
(A) nouns
(B) adjectives
(C) verbs
(D) adverbs
17. “Statesman” is an appreciati