词汇学 练习.ppt

* * * Words may fall into: the basic word stock and _______ vocabulary by use frequency; content words and ____words by notion; native words and ______words by origin, etc.. 2. Though words of the basic word stock constitute a small percentage of the English vocabulary, yet it is the most important part. T or F? 3. Prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries and articles belong to content words. T or F? 4. English belongs to Indo-European family. T or F? 5. List the three phases of the historical development of English language:_________,__________,___________. Latin, Greek, French and Scandinavian are the major contributors of borrowed words to the English vocabulary. T or F? 2. Most of Latin words have entered English through Greek. T or F? 3. Most of modern English vocabulary has come from French. T or F? 4. Since German and English are sisters belonging to the same family, German has a great influence on English. T or F? 5. Modern English vocabulary develop through three channels: _________, semantic change and ________. True or False Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word. 2. Free morphemes are all roots, while bound morphemes consist of roots and affixes. 3. Derivational morphemes occur before inflectional morphemes. 4. Prefixes are derivational and suffixes are inflectional. 5. A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. The most productive means of vocabulary expansion in modern English are ______, compounding and conversion. 2. All words which are produced by applying the rule of word-formation is acceptable. T or F? 3. Affixation is also known as_____, and it falls into two subcategories: ______and ______. 4. Prefixes do not modify the word meaning but only change the word-class of the base. T or F? 5. The primary function of suffixes is to change the word class and slightly modify its meaning. T or F?