Model Test 6

I.. Some of the following statements are true, and the others false. Mark your answer by writing T or F on your answer sheet.(10%) 

1. A word is a unity of sound and meaning, capable of performing a given syntactical function.

2. Most loan words are borrowed from foreign languages without any change in sound and spelling.

3. An allomorph is any of the variant forms of a morpheme.

4. Conversion means the transfer of a word from one class to another.

5. Scientists today tend to think that it is snobbish to use neoclassical formation to coin new words.

6. The relation between a word symbol and its meaning is mostly arbitrary and conventional.

7. Componential analysis is to break down. the conceptual sense of a word into its minimal distinctive components.

8. Polysemic words of long standing are signs of an advanced culture.

9. Homographs arc words identical in meaning but different in sound or spelling.

10. A word used in different contexts may contrast with different antonyms.

II. The following arc multiple-choice questions. Mark your answer by writing A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet. (20%)

11. A        of cattle is grazing in the fields.

    (A) flock     (B) herd     (C) shoal     (D) swarm

12. Chinese is our native language. But we cannot say that Chinese is our       .

    (A) mother tongue    (B) first language    (C) mother language     (D) official language

13. ''Present" and "absent" form a pair of       .

    (A) conversives     (B) gradable antonyms
    (C) complementary antonyms     (D) marked antonyms

14. The word virtue used to mean "manliness", now it means "general moral excellence". It is an example of       of meaning.

    (A) extension     (B) degeneration    (C) restriction     (D) elevation

15.       is not a pair of homophones.

    (A) bean, been     (B) beat, beet    (C) flea, flee     (D) bow, bow

16. The idiom "make a mountain out of a molehill" means      .

    (A) make an important matter seem trivial    (B) make a trivial matter seem important
    (C) compare a molehill to a mountain    (D) make a molehill out of a mountain

17.       is not an expression used by American.

(A) Tube     (B) Bar     (C) Mailbox     (D) Congress

18. When the suffix       is added to the word use, it changes this verb into an adjective.
    (A) less     (B) ness     (C) fully     (D) er

19. "Smog" is formed by combining "smoke" and "fog". So it is an example of      .
    (A) clipping     (B) compounding     (C) blending     (D) back-formation

20.       is not a pair of contrasting words.

    (A) wild, tame     (B) nimble, lame    (C) cold, warm     (D) brave, bare

III. Decide whether each of the following words is a A) simple word, B) compound word, C) derived word or D) shortened form. Mark your answer on the answer sheet. (10%)

21. goldmine     22. bike     23. process     24. supermarket    25. language 

26. driver     27. dorm     28. modernize    29. blackboard     30. bus

IV. Explain the following terms with appropriate examples. Do it on the answer sheet. (10%)

31. conversion

32. idiom

V. Give a short answer to the following questions. Do it on the answer sheet. (30%)

33. What is the difference between content words and function words? Illustrate your points with examples.

34. Explain the difference between denotative meaning and connotative meaning.

VI. Give a longer answer (150-200 words) to the following question. Do it on the answer sheet. (20%)

35. What arc the fundamental features of the basic word stock of the English vocabulary?