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1、词汇学综合练习1,1. Decide whether the statements are true or false.,1. A word is the smallest form of a language. 2. There is no intrinsic relationship between sound and meaning as the connection between them is arbitrary and conventional. 3. English is more closely related to German than French.,5. Old En
2、glish was a highly inflected language. 6. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is creation of new words by means of word formation. 7. The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of the components. 8. Such words as the poorer, the departed, a Republican a
3、re all examples of partial conversion.,9. As a rule, the stress of compounds falls on the first element. 10. The conversion between nouns and verbs may involve a change of stress.,2. Analyze the following lexical groups and state through what languages they came into English,1. cake, knife, crop, eg
4、g, ill, husband 2. honour, court, chivalry, heritage, literature 3. carouse, plunder, zinc, dock, quarts, cobalt 4. genius, stratum, inertia, memorandum, formula 5. pedestal, cornice, cupola, sonata, fresco 6. plaza, mulatto, embargo, armada, galleon 7. sultan, roc, yashmak, ghoul, harem, sheikh,8.
5、sampan, liche, ketchup, kaolin, typhoon 9. czar, troika, commissar, intelligentsia 10. geometry, gymnastics, tragedy, prologue philology, myth,3. Look up these words in a dictionary to determine the language from which each has been borrowed and then translate them into Chinese.,yacht taboo (Polynes
6、ian) cotton chocolate coolie czar kimono chili wonton tatami Muslin kangaroo voodoo wok sauerkraut,4. Write the terms in the blanks according to the definition:,A minimal meaningful unit of a language() One of the variants that realize a morpheme () A morpheme that occurs with at least one other mor
7、pheme () A morpheme that can stand alone () A morpheme attached to a stem or root () An affix that indicates grammatical relationships () An affix that forms new words with a stem or root (),5. Turn the following nouns and adjectives into verbs with suffixes en, -ify, -ize and then choose appropriat
8、e verbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences that follow.,hard horror modern memory false apology deep glory sterile length intense beauty fat sympathy He _ for interrupting her. She tried to _ her room with posters and plants.,c. A study has been ordered into the feasibility of _ the airports mai
9、n runway by two hundred meters. d. However much they _ with her, they all felt it was her fault. e. Soya is excellent food to _ cattle. f. Forty thousand pound had been spent on _ the station. g. _ the bottles by immersing them in boiling water for fifteen minutes.,6. Turn the phrasal verbs below in
10、to compounds and translate them into Chinese,break out fall down break through cry out take in run away slide down hang over,7. Pick out the words which you think are converted in the following sentences and explain how they are converted.,We cant stomach such an insult. Robert Acheson roomed right
11、next to me. He wolfed down his lunch. There is no come and go with her. Im one of his familiars. Poor innocents. She flatted her last notes. The engineers ahed and ouched at the new machines.,Come to the fire and have a warm. Is Bill Jackson a has-been or might-have been? He Hamleted at the chance and then he regretted for it. These shoes were an excellent buy. He turned his head and smoothed back the hair over one temple. Women have an equal say in affairs at home. We must train ourselves to distinguish right from wrong. They braved a 40-below-zero storm to rescue the farms cattle.,
《词汇学综合练习》PPT课件.ppt
