英语词汇学历年试题(2)

of those in powerful Church positions were of Norman French origin. A. 10th B.11th C.12th D. 13th

II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. 16. Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as _______.

17. . If we say that Old English was a language of full endings , Middle English was one of ______.

18. It can be concluded that English has evoked from a synthetic language (Old English) to the present _____

language.

19. The surviving languages accordingly fall into eight principal groups , which can be grouped into an

Eastern set: Balto-Slavic , Indo-Iranian ,Armenian and Albanian; a Western set :Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, _______.

20. It is necessary to subdivide Modern English into Early (1500-1700)and _____ Modern English.

III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) origin of the words 2)history off English development 3) language family.

A B

21. Celtic ( ) A.politics 22. religious ( ) B.moon 23.Scandinavian ( ) C. Persian 24. French ( ) D.London 25. Old English ( ) E. abbot 26.Dutch ( ) F. skirt 27.Middle English ( ) G. sunu 28. Modern English ( ) H. lernen 29. Germanic family ( ) I. freight

30.Sanskrit ( ) J. Norwegian IV. Study the following words or expressions and identify types of morphemes underlined.

31. earth ( ) 32.contradict ( ) 33. predictor ( ) 34. radios ( ) 35. prewar ( ) 36. happiest ( )

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37. antecedent ( ) 38. northward ( ) 38. sun ( ) 40. diction ( ) V. Define the following terms.

41. free morphemes 42. bound morphemes 43. root 44. stem 45.affixes VI. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. 46. Describe the characteristics of Old English . 47. Describe the characteristics of Middle English. 48. Describe the characteristics of Modern English. VII. Answer the following questions with examples. 49. What are the three main sources of new words ? 50. How does the modern English vocabulary develop ? Key to exercises:

I. 1.C 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.D 7.A 8.B 9.A 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.B 14.A 15.B II. 16.Old English 17. Leveled endings 18. analytic 19. Germanic 20.Late(1700-up to the

present )

III. 21. D 22. E 23. F 24. A 25. G 26. I 27. H 28. B 29. J 30. C IV. 31. free morpheme/ free root 32. bound root 33. suffix 34. inflectional affix 35. prefix 36. Inflectional affix 37. prefix 38. suffix 39. free morpheme/free root 40.bound root

V.-VI ( See the course book )

VII. 49. The three main sources of new words are :

(1) The rapid development of modern science and technology ,e.g. astrobiology, green revolution ; (2) Social , economic and political changes; e.g. Watergate, soy milk; (3) The influence of other cultures and language; e.g. felafel, Nehru Jackets.

50. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: (1) creation, e.g. consideration, carefulness; (2) semantic change, e.g. Polysemy, homonymy ; (3) borrowing ;e.g. tofu, gongful.

Chapter 3 The Development of the English Vocabulary and Chapter 4 Word Formation II（练习3）

I． Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

1. The prefixes in the words of irresistible, nonclassical and apolitical are called _______.

A. reversative prefixes B. negative prefixes C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes

2. The prefixes contained in the following words are called ______: pseudo-friend, malpractice, mistrust.

A. reversative prefixed B. negative prefixes C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes 3. The prefixed contained in unwrap, de-compose and disallow are _________.

A. reversative prefixed B. negative prefixes C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes 4. The prefixes in words extra-strong, overweight and archbishop are _____ .

A . negative prefixes B. prefixes of degree or size C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes 5. The prefixes in words bilingual ,uniform and hemisphere are ________.

A. number prefixes B. prefixes of degree or size C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes 6.________ are contained in words trans-world, intra-party and forehead. A. Prefixes of orientation and attitude B. Prefixes of time and order C. Locative prefixes D. Prefixes of degree or size 7. Rugby ,afghan and champagne are words coming from ________.

A. names of books B. names of places C. names of people D. tradenames

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