词汇学自测题II.docVIP

自测题II I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write T or F in the brackets: (20%) ( )1. Homonyms come mainly from borrowing, changes in sound and spelling, and dialects. ( )2. “Radiation” shows that the derived meanings of a polysemic word are not directly related to the primary meaning. ( )3. Borrowing is a very important source of synonyms. ( )4. A word which has a synonym naturally has an antonym. ( )5. The super ordinate differs from the subordinate in that the former covers the concept of the latter. ( )6. Extra-linguistic context refers to the physical situation or cultural background. ( )7. The way to differentiate homonyms from polysemants is mainly to see their origins as well as the relationship between their meanings. ( )8. Unclear context is often the cause of ambiguity. ( )9. Hyponymy deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion. ( )10. In some pairs of antonyms, one term may cover the meaning of the other. ( )11. Lexical context refers to the words that appear before the word in question. ( )12. Idioms are phrases or short sentences whose meanings can be understood from the individual words. ( )13. We classify idioms on a grammatical basis so that noun phrases will be put together and so will adjective phrases. ( )14. A variation of an idiom is to use a different phrase instead of it. ( )15. Context is important because without it, it would be difficult or impossible to tell the meaning of a polysemant. ( )16. Monolingual dictionaries are good for advanced learners and bilingual ones are appropriate for advanced learners. ( )17. Contradictory terms do not show degress. ( )18. Stylistically speaking, most idioms are neither formal not informal. ( )19. Semantic unity and structural stability are general features of idioms, but there are many exceptions. ( )20. An unabridged dictionary contains at least 150,000 headwords. 　 II. Group the following antonyms into three classes, namely