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自考词汇第二章练习题

第二章

I.Eachofthestatementsbelowisfollowedbyfouralternativeanswers.Choosetheonethatwouldbestcompletethestatement.

1.ThefollowinglanguagesareallGermanicexcept

A.DutchB.FlemishC.NorwegianD.Spanish

2.TheearlyinhabitantsoftheBritishIslesspoke

A.EnglishB.CelticC.ScandinavianD.Hellenic

3.Wordssuchascrag,binandAvonarefrom

A.LatinB.GreekC.CelticD.Anglo-Saxon

4.TheIndo-EuropeanismadeupofmostofthelanguagesofEurope,

A.theFarEastandtheNearEastB.theFarEastandtheMiddleEast

C.theNearEastandIndiaD.IndiaandNorthAfrica

5.TheprehistoricIndo-Europeanparentlanguageisthoughttobea/anlanguage.

A.analyticB.inflectedC.isolatingD.agglutinative

6.belongtotheWesternsetoftheIndo-Europeanlanguagefamily.

A.Hellenic,Germanic,HindiandCelticB.Germanic,Persian,AlbanianandIndo-Iranian

C.Celtic,Germanic,HellenicandItalicD.Scandinavian,Germanic,AlbanianandArmenian

7.IntheWesternsetoftheIndo-Europeanlanguagefamily,Greekisthemodernlanguagederivedfrom

A.HellenicB.ScandinavianC.ItalicD.Celtic

8.IntheCeltic,wefind,etc.

A.Scottish,Welsh,Irish,IcelandicB.Irish,Scottish,Welsh,Breton

C.Flemish,Scottish,Breton,DutchD.Norwegian,Irish,Breton,Welsh

9.Anglo-SaxondominatedandalmosttotallyblottedoutinOldEnglishperiod.

A.ScandinavianB.SwedishC.SanskritD.Celtic

10.OldEnglishisahighlylanguagejustlikemodernGerman.

A.agglutinativeB.analyticC.isolatingD.inflected

11.Asabasicword,"father"isborrowedfrom

A.ScandinavianB.GreekC.FrenchD.Latin

12.TheNormanConqueststartedacontinualflowofwordsintoEnglish.

A.LatinB.GreekC.DanishD.French

13.Handbookisawordcreatedbycombing

A.twonativewordsB.anativewordandaloanword

C.twoloanwordsD.aCelticwordandanAnglo-Saxonword

14.ItisestimatedthatatleastwordsofScandinavianoriginhavesurvivedinmodernEnglish.

A.1000B.900C.100O0D.8O0

15.Between1250and1500aboutFrenchwordspouredintoEnglish.

A.900B.900OC.100O0D.12000

16.AllofthefollowingwordsarefromDutchexcept.

A.boomB.easelC.stoopD.shirt

17.OldEnglishwasalanguageof_endings,andMiddleEnglishwasoneofendings.

A.full,leveledB.leveled,fullC.partial,leveledD.full,partial

18.Sincethebeginningofthe20~century,particularlyafterWorldWarII,althoughborrowingremainsachannelofEnglishvocabularyexpansion,morewordsarecreatedbymeansof

A.analogyB.word-formationC.transferD.conversion

19.Englishhasevolvedfroma_language（OldEnglish）tothepresentlanguage.

A.analytic,syntheticB.synthetic,analyticC.agglutinative,analyticD.isolating,synthetic

20.MorethanpercentofmodernEnglishwordscomealmostdirectlyfromclassicallanguages.

A.80B.25C.50D.40

21.Bytheendofthecentury,EnglishtooktheplaceofFrenchandgraduallycamebackintotheschools,thelawcourts,andgovernmentandregainedsocialstatus.

A.12thB.14thC.13thD.15th

22.ThetranslationoftheBibleandthewritingsofandotherscontributedalottotherevivalofEnglishasthedominatinglanguageinMiddleEnglishperiod.

A.Langland;Wycliffe,ChaucerB.Wycliffe;Langland,Chaucer

C.Chaucer;Wycliffe,ThomasMoreD.Bacon;Wycliffe,Chaucer

23.OldEnglishbegantoundergoagreatchangewhentheinvadedEnglandin1066.

A.RomansB.DanesC.NormansD.Jutes

24.BeforeEnglishregainedsocialstatusinMiddleEnglishperiod,thoseinpowerspokeFrench;thosewhowereliteratereadandwrote;thosewhocouldeducatetheirchildrentaughtthemin;andanyyoungmanwhosoughttoearnhislivingasascribelearnedor

A.Latin;French;Latin,FrenchB.French;French;French,English

C.French;French;Latin,FrenchD.Greek;French;Greek,French

25.Thethreemainsourcesofnewwordsare

A.therapiddevelopmentofmodemscienceandtechnology;social,economicandpoliticalchanges;theinfluenceofotherculturesandlanguages

B.therapiddevelopmentofmodernscienceandtechnology;social,economicandpoliticalchanges;revivingarchaicorobsoletewords

C.creation,borrowingandrevivingarchaicorobsoletewords

D.semanticchange,creation,borrowingandrevivingarchaicorobsoletewords

26.Thewordswith"sk"soundsarefrom

A.FrenchB.DanishC.LatinD.Dutch

27.EnglishRenaissancebroughtover10000newwordsfromandintoEnglishlanguage.

A.Latin,GreekB.Latin,FrenchC.French,GermanD.Greek,French

28."coolie"isfromand"freight"isfrom

A.Chinese,DutchB.Indian,SpanishC.Japanese,SpanishD.Indian,Dutch

29.ModemEnglishvocabularydevelopsthrough

A.terminology,analogyandborrowing

B.creation,semanticchange,borrowingandrevivalofarchaicorobsoletewords

C.creation,archaismsandsemanticchange

D.semanticchange,denizensandargot

30.SemanticchangeenrichesEnglishvocabularythrough

A.additionofmorenewusagestotheexistingwords

B.additionofnewwordstotheexistingEnglishvocabulary

C.borrowingmeaningsfromthesimilarwordsofotherlanguages

D.assimilationofloanwordsintotheexistingEnglishvocabulary

31.The3000（someputit5000）languagesintheworldcanbegroupedintoroughly300languagefamiliesonthebasisofsimilaritiesintheirand

A.nativewordstock,grammarB.basicwordstock,loanwordstock

C.basicwordstock,grammarD.nativewordstock,loanwordstock

32.TheintroductionofhadagreatinfluenceonEnglishvocabulary.Thewordssuchas"abbot","amen"and"apostle"aresomeoftheexamplewords.

A.RenaissanceB.ChristianityC.BuddhismD.Islam

33.ThesecondmajorknownlanguageknowninEnglandwasoftheRomanLegions.

A.GreekB.LatinC.CelticD.Anglo-Saxon

34.NativewordsarewordsbroughttoBritaininthefifthcenturybythetribes:

theAngles,theSaxons,andthe

Jutes,thusknownasAnglo-Saxonwords.

A.ScandinavianB.CelticC.RomanD.Germanic

35.Nativewordsareinstyleandinuse.

A.appreciative,frequentB.pejorative,neutralC.neutral,frequentD.frequent,neutral

36.AccordingtoStuartRobertson,etal（1957）,theninefunctionalwords,namely,"and","be","have","it","of","the","to",

"will"and"you"assumeofthetaskofexpressioninEnglish.

A.onethirdB.onefourthC.ahalfD.onefifth

37."but","do（does,did）","be（am,are,were,is）"and"of"areallwordsbynotionand___wordsbyuse

frequency.

A.functional,basicB.basic,functionalC.native,basicD.content,native

38.Theword"quoth"（said）isa/an

A.neologismB.archaismC.translation-loanD.semantic-loan

39.Theword"shift"from"skipta"isa/aninEnglish.

A.translation-loanB.semantic-loanC.denizenD.alien

40.TheEnglishlanguageisnotedfortheremarkableandofitsvocabulary.

A.complexity,heterogeneityB.purity,simplicity

C.naturalness,simplicityD.naturalness,conventionality

II.Completethefollowingstatementswithproperwordsorexpressionsaccordingtothecoursebook.

1.isthelanguageoftheearlyinhabitantsoftheBritishIsles.

2.The3,000（someputit5,000）languages,whichcanbegroupedintoroughlylanguagefamiliesonthebasis

ofsimilaritiesintheirbasicwordstockandgrammar.

3.Norwegian,Icelandic,DanishandSwedisharegenerallyknownaslanguages.

4.ThefirstpeopleknowntoinhabitEnglandwere

5.Thewordssuchas"Kent","London"and"Thames"are

6.Thewordssuchas"window","leg","husband","life"and"house"are

7.OldEnglishwasahighlyinflectedlanguagejustlikemodem

8.Consideringthechangesinvocabulary,itisnecessarytosubdivideintoEarly（1500-1700）andLate

（1700--uptothepresent）ModemEnglish.

9.Over10,000newwordsenteredtheEnglishlanguageduringEnglishRenaissance.ManyoftheseweretakenfromLatin

andGreekbyscholarswhowantedtoreplacetheformsearlieradoptedfrom

10.Englishhasevolvedfromasyntheticlanguage（OldEnglish）tothepresentlanguage.

11.Gozzi,theauthorofNewWordsandChangingAmericanCulture（1990）,discoveredthattermsmakeupapproximately45percentofnewwords.

12.ModemEnglishvocabularydevelopsthroughthreechannelscreation,,borrowing.

13.Creationreferstotheformationofnewwordsbyusingtheexistingmaterials,namely,affixesandother

elements.

14.changemeansanoldformwhichtakesonanewmeaningtomeetthenewneed.

15.hasplayedavitalroleinthedevelopmentofEnglishvocabulary,especiallyinearliertimes.

16.InearlierstagesofEnglish,French,Latin,Greekandwerethemajorcontributors.

17."loan"usedasatransitiveverbinAmericanEnglishisaninstanceofrevivaloforobsoletewords.

18.TheIndo-EuropeanismadeupofmostofthelanguagesofEurope,theNearEastand

19.OldEnglishhasaboutwords.

20.NativewordsarewordsbroughttoBritaininthefifthcenturybytheGermanictribes:

theAngles,theSaxons,andthe

Jutes,thusknownaswords,orOldEnglishwords.

21.IntheearlyperiodofModernEnglish,EuropesawanewupsurgeoflearningancientGreekandRomanclassics.This

isknownasthe

22.Thewords"dress","pork","mutton"and"fry"areallborrowedfrom

23.Generallyspeaking,theEnglishwordsaresimpleandcommoncomparedwiththeborrowedLatin,Greek

andFrenchwords.

24.Theword"judge"isborrowedfrom

25.A/Anlanguageisalanguageinwhichthevariousformsofagivenwordshowitsrelationshiptootherwords

inasentence.

26.Theword"hamb