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《英语词汇学》 模拟试卷 （二） I. Choose the best answer and then put the letter of your choice in the given brackets. (30%) 1. The prehistorical Indo-European parent language is thought to be a highly ______ language. A. advanced B. developed C. analytic D. inflected ( ) 2. The word “prediction” contains no ______. A. free morpheme B. stem C. bund morpheme D. root ( ) 3. The relationship between sound and meaning is ______ and conventional. A. logical B. arbitrary C. objective D. consistent ( ) 4. The word “port” from “portus” is regarded as a ______. A. semantic-loan B. neologism C. translation-loan D. denizen ( ) 5. Words created by adding word forming or derivational affixes to stems are called ______. A. acronyms B. blends C. derivatives D. compounds ( ) 6. The word ______ is regarded as a deverbal noun. A. popularity B. persistence C. productivity D. priestess ( ) 7. The word “disunite” contains a ______ prefix. A. reversative B. pejorative C. negative D. locative ( ) 8. Motivation refers to the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______. A. spelling B. sound C. meaning D. function ( ) 9. Extension of meaning is also known as ______. A. specialization B. elevation C. generalization D. degradation ( ) 10. The words “husband” and “wife” are regarded as ______ terms. A. relative B. contradictory C. contrary D. graded ( ) 11. The word “copperhead” was used to refer to those northerners who were secretly aiding the South because of the ______ reason. A. class B. historical C. social D. psychological ( ) 12. The meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure where it occurs, which is called ______ context. A. lexical B. grammatical C. linguistic D. non-linguistic ( ) 1 13. The idiom “heart and soul” is ______ in nature. A. adjectival B. verbal C. adverbial D. nominal ( ) 14. The ambiguity of the sentence, “The ball is attractive,” is caused by ______. A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy ( ) 15. The main body of a dictionary is its ______ of words.