词汇学测试Quiz 2I. 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. humourB. sarcasmC. ridiculeD. all the above2. Grammatical context refers to ______ in which a word is used. ( C )A. vocabularyB. grammarC. syntactic structureD. semantic pattern3. Which of the following words is not formed through clipping? ( B )A Dorm B. Motel C. Gent D. Zoo4. _______ 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. RadiationB. ConcatenationC. DerivationD. Inflection5. _____ refer to one of two or more words in the English language whi ch have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning. ( B )A. PolysemantsB. SynonymsC. AntonymsD. Hyponyms6. The sense relation between the two words “tulip” and “flower”is ___ ___. ( A )A. hyponymyB. synonymyC. polysemyD. antonymy7. _________ are words identical only in spelling but different in sound a nd meaning, e.g. bow/bau/; bow/beu/. ( A )A. HomographsB. HomophonesC. Perfect homonymsD. Antonyms8. The antonyms: male and female are ______. ( A )A. contrariesB. complementariesC. conversivesD. derivational antonyms9. From the diachronic point of view, when the word was created, it wa s endowed with only one meaning . The first meaning is called ______. ( C )A. central meaningB. basic meaningC. primary meaningD.derived meaning10. “Happy” and “unhappy” are ____________. ( B )A. gradable antonymsB. root antonymsC. derivational antonymsD. conversives11. Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its _____. ( D )A. formB. pronunciationC. spellingD. meaning12. The word “______” is an onomatopoetically motivated word. ( A )A. miaowB. swordC. laconicD. airmail13. ______, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary i n comparison. ( A )A. SynchronicallyB. DiachronicallyC. EtymologicallyD. Onomatopoetically14. Based on ______ context, we can arrive at the meaning of “do a su m”. ( D )A. grammaticalB. lexicalC. culturalD. non-linguistic15. ______ meaning refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships.( A )A. LexicalC. Associative B. ConceptualD. Grammatical16. ______ is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages because overwhelming majority of words have more than one meaning.( A )A. PolysemyC. SynonymyA. hyponym,subordinateC. polysemant, monosemant B. HyponymyD. Homonymy B. superordinate, subordinate D. lower, upper 17. A______ term is general and a/an______ te rm is specific.( D )18. Context is very important for the understanding of word-meaning bec ause the meaning is influenced immediately by the ______ context, and in m any cases by the whole______ as well.( D )A. lexical, linguistic contextC. grammatical, lexical context B. linguistic, speech situationD. lexical, ext ra-linguistic context19. Which of the following is NOT true about extra-linguistic context? ( A )A. It can be subdivided into grammatical context and non-linguistic contex t.B. It refers to physical situation or environment relating to the use of w ords.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 contex t? ( 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-linguisticC. grammatical______ field of ?colours?. ( B )A. stylisticC. ellipticbetween the sign and meaning. ( C )A. 2C. 4its origin. ( D )A. onomatopoeicC. semantic B. linguisticD. 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. etymological25. Synonyms are classified into several kinds.The words such as start, be gin, and commence can be called ________ synonyms.( B )A.dialectalC.emotiveB.stylistic D.collocational。