英语词汇习题集1.doc

英语词汇学习题集（Chapter 1—Chapter 3）
                      Chapter 1  The Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary                         
1. Decide whether the following are true or false.
(   ) a. A word can be defined in different ways from different points of view.
(   ) b. Under no circumstances can sound and meaning be logically related.
(   ) c. The introduction of printing press resulted in a lot more differences between sound and form.
(   ) d. The words a person can use in speaking and writing form his active vocabulary.
(   ) e. The principles by which to classify words are usage, notion and origin.
(   ) f. Native words are more popular than foreign words.
(   ) g. Native words enjoy the same features as the basic word stock and more.

2. Give a term for each of the following definitions.
a. sub-standard words often used on informal occasions (   )
b. specialized vocabulary common in certain professions (   )
c. words used by sup-cultural groups particularly by underground society (   )
d. words that have clear notions (    )
e. words of Anglo-Saxon origin(    )
f. words borrowed by way of translation (    )
g. old words with new meanings(   )  
Key:
1. a.(T)  b.(F)   c.(T)  d.(T)  e.(F)  f.(F)   g.(T)
2. a. slang    b. jargon    c. argot   d. content words   e. native words   f. translation loans    g. neologisms

Chapter 3 Morphological Structure of English Words  
1. Explain the following terms:
1) morpheme                                          2) allomorph
  3) bound morpheme                               4) free morpheme
5) affix                                                   6) inflectional affix
7) derivational affix                                 8) root
9) stem
2.Complete the following sentences with proper words according to the text.
1) Structurally, a word is not the_________ unit because many words are analyzable or segmentable.
2) The morpheme is the smallest functioning unit in the composition of ___________.
3) Morphemes fall into different classes by different criteria of classification. Now people tent to group morphemes into groups:_________ and _________.
4) According to the functions of affixes, we can put them into groups:______ and_____.
5) The number of inflectional affixes is ________and ________, which makes English one of the easiest languages to learn.
6) Derivational affixes can be further divided into __________and ________.
7) A_________, whether free or bound, generally carries the main component of meaning in a word.
8) A________ can be defined as a form to which affixes of any kind can be added.  
Key:
1. 1) a minimum meaningful unit of a language
2) one of the variants that realize a morpheme
3) a morpheme that occurs with at least one other morpheme
4) a morpheme that can stand alone
5) a morpheme attached to a stem or a root
6) an affix that indicates grammatical relationships
7) an affix that forms new words with a stem or a root
8) what remains of a word after the removal of all affixes
9) a form to which affixes of any kind can be added
2. 1) smallest                                                            2) words
  3) free morphemes, bound morphemes                 4) inflectional (affixes), derivational (affixes)
  5) small, stable                                                     6) prefixes, suffixes
  7) root                                                                 8) stem

Chapter 4  Word  Formation  
1.      Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Put F and T in the brackets.
(  ) a. The most productive ways of word-formation are affixation, compounding and conversion.
(  ) b. Shortening includes clipping and blending.
(  ) c. Prefixation and suffixation are two subbranches of affixation.
(  ) d. Suffixation is the formation of new words by adding prefixes to stems.
(  ) e. Compounding is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems.
(  ) f. The limited number of verb compounds are created either through conversion or back-formation.
(  ) g. Verb compounds in the way of back-formation are formed mainly by dropping prefixes.
(  ) h. Conversion is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class. These words are new only in a  grammatical sense.
(  ) i. Blending is the formation of new words by combining part of two words or a word plus a part of another word.
(  ) j. Clipping, a way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and adding a new part to the original .
(  ) k. Words formed through acronymy are called initialisms or acronyms, depending on the spelling of the words.
(  ) l. Back-formation is the method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes.

2. Study the following words and decide how each word was formed. Put your answer in the bracket.
Example: disobey (affixation or prefixation)
disloyal            (    )        harden    (    )
mass-produce  (    )        motel      (    )
downfall           (    )         dorm     (    )
incapable          (    )       VOA      (    )
glorify               (    )         radar     (    )
edit                   (    )        sandwich  (    )
familiars            (    )        gas           (    )
water-proof      (    )        quixotic    (    )

Affixation
1.   What is affixation?
2.   What is the difference between prefixation and suffixation?
3.   What is the fundamental difference between prefixes and suffixes?
4.    Match the prefixes in column A with the words in column B.
   A               B
    dis-         capable
     il-            willingness
     im-            legal
    in-           agreement
    non-        officially
    un-          convenient
            smoker

5.  Match the suffixes in Column A with the words in column B.
   A           B
-er          book
-let         friend
-ship        wait
-tion       china
-ese        lady
-like        protect
-able       natural
-ly          wash
-en         dark
-fy          beauty

Compounding

1.   Express the following in one compound word:
a.       someone who writes songs
b.      someone who cleans windows
c.       the race for arms
d.      the train in the morning
e.       a mine for gold
f.        bathe in the sun
g.       as cheap as dirt
h.       tanned by the sun

2.   The compounds in each of the following pairs are similar in structure. Please indicate the different relations of the elements of the two compounds in each pair by syntactic paraphrases.
Example: duty-free: free from duties
raindrop                                flowerbed
air-tight                                 sea-green
a well-meant remark             a well-behaved person
war-ruined houses                 country-bred boys
a computer-designer              a sun-bather
steam engine                          fire engine
silk worm                               gaslight
handwriting                            faultfinding
an ocean-going ship               peace-loving people
language teacher                     baby-sitter

3.   Translate the following into Chinese:
a.       knee-deep           f. pitch dark / black
b.      life-like                 g. carefree
c.      snow-white           h. soundproof
d.      nation-wide           i. fireproof
e.      shoulder-high        j. lifelong

4.   According to the definitions given below, write the other part of the noun compounds, the first part already given. 
a.       a stretch of land, round a town, where building is not al-lowed, so that the fields, woods, etc., remain: green___________
b.    a booklet giving all the most important information about a subject: hand_______
c.    an idea that comes later: after_______
d.    a pill which helps a person to sleep: sleeping_________
e.    a headline repeated on consecutive pages (as of a book): running_________
f.     a cloth that is used for washing one’s face and body: wash__________
g.     strong sunlight as when there are no clouds: sun________
h.     the action of forcing a way through the enemy: break__________
i.      a public show of anger: out __________
j.      a division into smaller parts: break_________

5.  Turn the phrasal verbs below into compounds:
break through     fall down    break out
take in           slide down   cry out
run away         hang over

Conversion
1.   Choose the best answer to complete each statement.
(  ) a. Conversion is a method_________.
      A. of turning words of one part of speech to those of a dif-ferent part of speech
      B. of converting words of one meaning into different meaning
      C. of deriving words through grammatical means
      D. of changing words in morphological structure
(  ) b. Words involved in conversion are mainly_____________.
      A  nouns, verbs and adverbs
      B  nouns, adjectives and verbs
      C  nouns, prepositions and verbs
      D  adjectives, adverbs and verbs
(  ) c. In a derivational process, an item is converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix. The name is______.
     A  full conversion       B  partial conversion
     C  functional shift       D  zero-derivation
(  ) d. Almost all monomorphemic _______ can be conversed into nouns, which are semantically related to the original verbs in various ways.
     A  verbs               B  adjectives
     C  adverbs             D  prepositions
(  ) e. Nouns converted from adjectives nave all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as ____________.
     A  partial conversion     B  full conversion
     C  functional shift       D  grammatical shift
(  ) f. Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not possess all the qualities a noun does. They must be used together with ____________.
     A  plural forms         B  single forms
     C  adjectives           D  definite articles
(  ) g. The conversion of two-syllable nouns into verbs involves a change of  ________.
     A  spelling            B  pronunciation
     C  stress              D  function
(  ) h. In most cases a noun can be converted to a verb ____________.
      A  with some changes
      B  without any change
      C  with some changes in spelling
      D  without any change in pronunciation

2. Give your explanation for each of the following converted words in the sentences below:
  a. So she believed me and doctored my battered face, pleased that she could be useful.
  b. The train was telescoped as a result of the collision.
  c. We cannot mandate a solution to inflation.
  d. A team of experts at Columbia is now cataloguing the tapes and indexing the transcripts, which will be available for scholarly research.
  e. There will be a repeat of this program next week.
  f. Heart transplants began ten years ago. Why have British doctors done only four since then?
  g. In the choice of diction he has a taste for the quaint and the picturesque.
  h. The correspondent tried to get an interview with the condemned.
  k. The television drearies the ball game.
  l. The president was sketchiest in broad-brushing his goals in foreign policy.
Blending
1.    Explain the characteristics of blending with examples.
2.    Explain the four types of blends with examples.
3.    Analyses the formation of the following blends and translate them into Chinese.
  botel                   skylab
  chunnel               humint
  advertistics          medicaid
  workfare             psywar
  Nixonomics         comsat

Clipping
1.   Explain the characteristics of clipping with examples.
2.   Give examples to explain the different types of clipping.
3.   Read the following sentences and restore the full forms of the italicized words.
a.       Did you see the doctor’s dilemma on telly last night? (   )
b.       Palestinian demos mark massacres. (   )
c.       The America was the first to nuke two Japanese cities. (   )
d.      Viet troops suffer setback in Kampuchea. (   )
e.       The police asks for info on stolen computers. (   )
f.        Rural credit co-ops to get more autonomy. (   )
g.       Today, china acts to meet high-tech challenge. (   )
h.       Setback for governing parties in euro vote. (   )

Acronymy
1.   What do the short forms stand for?
EEC, OPEC, SLAM, ELSS, EDVAC, GEM, NSC, ERDA, ID

2.   Explain the following words:
SALT   laser   AIDS   V-Day   D-Day   G-man

Back-formation
1.  Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.
(  ) a. Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of________.
A  prefixation       B. suffixation     C. acronymy        D. conversion
(  ) b. Back-formation usually involves _ _____types of words.
A.  3                    B. 4                  C. 5                    D. 2
(  ) c. Stylistically, back-formed words are largely ______ and some of them have not gained public acceptance.
A. formal         B. adjectives           C. human nouns        D. informal
(  ) d. Back-formation is the method of creating new words by ______ the so-called suffixes.
A. removing     B. combining         C. shortening             D. considering

2. Give the original words from which the following words are back-formed.
  globe-trot   ______             brainwash  ________
  ghost-write  ______            sleep-walk  ________
  spoon-feed  ________        air-condition ________
  book-keep _______            browbeat  ______ _
  caretake  _ ______              gatecrash  _______
  housebreak _______           housekeep _______
  mass-p0roduce _______      lase _______
  proof-read  _ ______           sightsee _______
  stage-manage _______         merry-make _______
  street-walk ______  _           window-shop _______

Words from Proper Names

Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
(  ) a. Proper nouns form an important source of English vocabulary.
(  ) b. Words derived from names include names of people, names of country, names of products and names of books.
(  ) c. All the words denoting products come from the names of places where they were first made.
(  ) d. Quite a few words come from names of books and thus take on the meaning of the books.
(  ) e. When proper nouns are communized, many of them have lost their original identity.
(  ) f. Proper nouns have rich cultural associations and thus stylistically vivid, impressive and thought-provoking.
(  ) g. Proper nouns can not take suffixes.  

Key:
1. a. T     b. T      c. T      d. F     e. T      f. T