21秋西南大学0057 英语词汇学在线作业答案
0057 英语词汇学1.[单选题] Finding a job in such a big company has always been ________ his wildest dream.
A.under
B.on
C.beyond
D.over
2.[单选题] This story is a _________ to divert the public attention away from the issue.
A.blue moon
B.black horse
C.red herring
D.green hand
3.[单选题] My sister lives 1000 miles away from us, so I only got to see her ________.
A.once in a blue moon
B.one time in a blue moon
C.one time in a moon
D.once in a moon
4.[单选题] Come on! Cheer up! Don’t just sit here as stiff as a ________.
A.poker
B.patient
C.queen
D.king
5.[单选题] When it comes to a family quarrel, Mr. Smith just ________.
A.bury his head in the earth
B.bury his head in the sand
C.bury his head in the water
D.bury his head in the garden
6.[单选题] He is wise enough to see ________ all these fine pretensions.
A.to
B.through
C.over
D.out
7.[单选题] Our teacher is now not with us. Aha! When the ________ is away, the ________ will play.
A.tiger, monkeys
B.old, young
C.cat, mice
D.hawk, birds
8.[单选题] They all thought that she and her boyfriend were ________.
A.birds of a kind
B.birds of a type
C.birds of a breed
D.birds of a feather
9.[单选题] After a meal in a restaurant, you ask the waiter for the _________.
A.note
B.receipt
C.bill
D.menu
10.[单选题] Words with such clusters as “ch”, “ph”, “pn”, “rh” as in chasm, phone, pneumatic and rhetoric are most probably of _________ origin.
A.German
B.Chinese
C.Greek
D.Latin
11.[单选题] According to _________, the first human language is onomatopoeic in nature.
A.A.the oral-gestural theory
B.the bow-wow theory
C.the yo-heave-ho theory
D.the pooh-pooh theory
12.[单选题] The antonym of light is ________ in “a ________ blue dress” and _________ in “a ________ box”.
A.heavy, deep
B.heavy, heavy
C.deep, deep
D.deep, heavy
13.[单选题] He was ________ of having asked such a silly question.
A.miserable
B.guilty
C.sorry
D.ashamed
14.[单选题] I took only a _________ of beans with me and left.
A.hand
B.handful
C.handy
D.handed
15.[单选题] The missiles missed their _________, so the research group did not reach its _________.
A.target, target
B.goal, goal
C.goal, target
D.target, goal
16.[单选题] No new ideas _______ from the meeting.
A.merged
B.submerged
C.emerged
D.immerged
17.[单选题] John turns his nose ________ Ann, which hurt her a lot.
A.up at
B.at
C.on
D.upon
18.[单选题] Having lost the match, the team went home in ________ spirits.
A.F.dark
B.deep
C.low
D.empty
19.[单选题] Which of the following usually appears in poems？_________
A.nag
B.steed
C.horse
D.gee-gee
20.[单选题] Free medical treatment in this country covers sickness of mind as well as ________ sicknesses.
A.regular
B.normal
C.average
D.ordinary
21.[判断题] invest and gamble share the same conceptual meaning, but differ in affective meaning.
A.正确
B.错误
22.[判断题] Conceptual meaning of a word is generally context sensitive.
A.正确
B.错误
23.[判断题] The word nice has gone through a semantic change called “generalization”.
A.正确
B.错误
24.[判断题] In English vocabulary, there are no infixes at all.
A.正确
B.错误
25.[判断题] The vocabulary of Old English is almost exclusively Germanic.
A.正确
B.错误
26.[判断题] “reference”, as a term in semantics, denotes the relationship between words and things.
A.正确
B.错误
27.[判断题] In AmE, the letter “t” in water, writing, meter are pronounced closer to /d/.
A.正确
B.错误
28.[判断题] In the sentence, “More hands are needed on the farm”, metonymy is employed.
A.正确
B.错误
29.[判断题] Words in a language are loosely or arbitrarily organized without a structure.
A.正确
B.错误
30.[判断题] Words slim and skinny have similar denotations but different in connotations.
A.正确
B.错误
31.[判断题] Lexical semantics is not only a subset of lexicology, but also a subset of semantics.
A.正确
B.错误
32.[判断题] Compared with subordinate level categories, basic level categories are the more general ones.
A.正确
B.错误
33.[判断题] Program is the shortened form for programme in BrE.
A.正确
B.错误
34.[判断题] Communal knowledge is the part of knowledge that is common to a community of people, exactly, more than two.
A.正确
B.错误
35.[判断题] Modern English has only eight inflectional suffixes and each can be added to a word only once.
A.正确
B.错误
36.[判断题] The synchronic approach to word meaning is more important than the diachronic approach.
A.正确
B.错误
37.[判断题] In the Old English period, there were two dialects, i.e. Aglian and West Saxon.
A.正确
B.错误
38.[判断题] According to the prototype theory, there exist no clear-cut boundaries between cognitive categories.
A.正确
B.错误
39.[判断题] In standard BrE and AmE pronounce the vowels in words like dog, stop, stop, on, etc. in the same way.
A.正确
B.错误
40.[判断题] de-urbanization is a word composed of 5 morphemes, all of which are bound ones.
A.正确
B.错误
41.[名词解释] alien
A.
42.[名词解释] melioration
A.
43.[名词解释] blending
A.
44.[名词解释] jargon
A.
45.[名词解释] root
A.
46.[名词解释] polysemy
A.
47.[名词解释] encyclopedic meaning
A.
48.[名词解释] subjectification
A.
49.[问答题] What is a compound and what is a free phrase? How can compound and free phrases be distinguished?
A.
50.[问答题] What is context and what role does it play in shaping word meaning?
A.
51.[问答题] Brave it out, no matter how difficult it is.
A.
52.[问答题] I won’t come out tonight. I am feeling out of sorts.
A.
53.[问答题] Since you’ve been caught cheating, you must face the music.
A.
54.[问答题] Strike while the iron is hot.
A.
55.[问答题] You don’t have to go to Oxbridge to receive a good university education.
A.
56.[问答题] It’s im-bloody-possible to complete the task within such a short time.
A.
57.[问答题] The Giant Stone Buddha at Leshan is a UNESCO world cultural heritage site.
A.
58.[问答题] I think a lot of people still underestimate him.
A.
59.[问答题] You need to find a hobby to enthuse you.
A.
60.[问答题] Fish begins to stink at the head.
A.
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