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自考英语词汇学重点及大题

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目 录
Chapter 1 1
课文重点 1
名词解释 4
简答题 4
Chapter 2 5
课文重点 5
名词解释 6
简答题 7
分析题 7
Chapter 3 7
课文重点 7
名词解释 8
简答题 9
分析题 9
Chapter 4 9
课文重点 9
名词解释 12
简答题 12
分析题 13
Chapter 5 13
课文重点 13
名称解释 15
简答题 15
分析题 16
Chapter 6 16
课文重点 16
名词解释 19
简答题 20
分析题 21
Chapter 7 22
课文重点 22
名词解释 23
简答题 23
分析题 23
Chapter 8 24
课文重点 24
名词解释 24
简答题 25
分析题 25
Chapter 9 26
课文重点 26
名词解释 28
简答题 28
分析题 29
Chapter 10 29
课文重点 29
名词解释 30
简答题 30
部分试卷中的大题 31
2016-10 31
2009-04 32

Chapter 1
课文重点
1 - The definition of a word comprises the following points: (1) a minimal free form of a language; (2) a sound unity; (3) a unit of meaning; (4) a form that can function alone in a sentence.
A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.
1 词定义包括以下几点： （ 1 ）一门语言中最小的自由形式;（ 2 ）一个声音的统一体（ 3 ）一个意义单位;（ 4 ）在一个句子中独立起作用的一个形式。 词是一门语言中具有一定的声音、意义和句法功能的最小的自由形式。
2- Sound and Meaning: symbolic connection is almost always arbitrary and conventional. A dog is called a dog not because the sound and the three letters that make up the word just automatically suggest the animal in question.
2 -声音和意义：象征性联系几乎总是任意和约定成俗的，狗称为狗不是因为这个声音以及这三个字母在一起就能自动表示这种动物。
3- Old English, the speech of the time was represented very much more faithfully in writing than it is today. The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does not have a separate letter to represent each sound in the language so that some letters must do double duty or work together in combination.
3 –古代英语，随着语言的发展，声音和形式之间的差异越来越大。产生这种差异的内在原因是英语拼写采用了拉丁字母，从而使英语中的每个音位并不能都用单独的字母来表示，有些字母必须起双重职能或组合在一起来表示一个音。
Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years, and in some cases the two have drawn far apart.
另一个原因是，发音比拼写变化的快，在某些情况下，两者产生了很大的差异。
A third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.
第三个原因是，是由于早期抄写僧所造成的一些差异。 Finally comes the borrowing, which is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary.
最后一个原因是外来词。外来词是丰富了英语词汇的重要途径。 5 - Vocabulary: All the words in a language make up its vocabulary. Not only can it refer to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period. We also use it to refer to all the words of a given dialect, a given book, a given discipline and the words possessed by an individual person. The general estimate of the present-day English vocabulary is over one million words.
5 -词汇：一门语言中所有的词构成该语言的词汇。“词汇”一词具有多重含义。它不但能够指一门语言的词汇量，还能够指某一特制定时期的词汇。我们还能够用该词指称某一方言的词汇、某一本书的词汇、某一学科的词汇，甚至还可指某个人的词汇量。英语是世界上高度发达的语言之一，也是词汇量最大、最丰富的语言之一。据初步统计，当代英语词汇量已达100多万词。
6 - Words may fall into the basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary by use frequency, into content words and functional words by notion, and into native words and borrowed words by origin.
按使用频率分，词能够分为基本词汇和非基本词汇;按有无实义来分，词能够分为实义词和功能词；按起源分，它又可分为本族语词和外来语词。
7 - The basic word stock is the foundation of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and forms the common core of the language. Though words of the basic word stock constitute a small percentage of the English vocabulary, yet it is the most important part of it. These words have obvious characteristics.
7-一门语言的基本词汇是长期积累下来的，是该语言的共核。虽然英语中的基本词汇只占总词汇量的一小部分，但却是最重要的部分。基本词汇具有下列明显的特点。
8 - All national character. Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us, which are indispensable to all the people who speak the language. They include words relating to the following respects: Natural phenomena/Human body and relations/Names of plants and animals/Action, size, domain, state/Numerals, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions.
全民性。基本词汇指称我们周围世界最常见的食物和现象，是讲这门语言的人们所必不可少的。基本词汇包括以下几个方面相关的词：自然现象/人体和人们之间的关系/动、植物名称/行为、尺寸、范畴，状态/数词、代词、介词、连词等
9 - Stability. Words of the basic word stock have been in use for centuries.
-稳定性。基本词汇长期为人们所使用。
10 - Productivity. Words of the basic word stock are mostly root words or monosyllabic words. They can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and affixes.
能产性。基本词汇大多根词或单音节词。她们能够分别单独使用，也能够和其它根源和词缀一起构成新词。
11 - Polysemy. Words belonging to the basic word stock often possess more than one meaning because most of them have undergone semantic changes in the course of use and become polysemous.
多义词。基本词中的词由于长期使用过程中产生了语义变化，単义变成了多义。
12 - Collocability. Many words of the basic word stock enter quite a number of set expressions, idiomatic usages, proverbial sayings and the like.
–搭配性。基本词汇中的许多词形成了诸多固定的词语，惯用用法，习语和谚语等。
Words, void of the stated characteristics, do not belong to the commom core of the language. they include the following.
不具备上述特点的词不属于改语言的共核，包括：
13 - Terminology consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas.
术语。是指特定学科和叙述领域所使用的专有名词。
14 - Jargon refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves such as in business.
-行话。是流行于艺术，科学，商业和其它职业内部的专有名词。
15 - Slang belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words like cant, jargon, and argot, all of which are associated with, or most available to, specific groups of the population.
-俚语属非标准语言，介于一般标准词汇和团体内部用词之间，如套语、行话和黑语，都在特定人群中流行。
Slang is created by changing or extending the meaning of existing words though some slang words are new coinages altogether. Slang is colorful, blunt, expressive and impressive.
俚语大多还是由现有词汇语义的改变或引申，只有少数是自创的，俚语在表示上富有色彩，直接，表现力强，效果明显。
16 - Argot generally refers to the jargon of criminals.黑话一般指罪犯的行话。
17 - Dialectal words are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.
-方言词限于讲方言的人所使用。
18 - Archaisms are words or forms that were once in common use but are now restricted only to specialized or limited use.
古语词是指过去曾经广泛使用而现在仅限于某些特殊用法的词。
19 - Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meanings.
-新词语是指新创造的词语或又产生新义的旧词。
20 - By notion, words can be grouped into content words and functional words. Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as notional words. They include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals, which denote objects, phenomena, action, quality, state, degree, quantity.
20 - 词汇能够根据有无实义分为实义词和功能词。实义词表示明确的概念，它们包括名词，动词，形容词，副词和数词，表示事物、现象、行动、物质、状态、程度、数量等。
21 - Functional words do not have notions of their own. Therefore, they are also called empty words. As their chief function is to express the relation between notions, the relation between words as well as between sentences, they are known as form words. Prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries and articles belong to this category.
21 –功能词本身不具有实义，因此又称为虚词。虚词就是表示两个实义之间的关系以及词与词之间、句子与句子之间的关系，也可称为形式词。虚词有介词，连词，助动词和冠词。
22 - However, functional words do far more work of expression in English on average than content words. -然而在英语中，功能词比实义词起着更重要的作用。
23 - Native words are words brought to Britain in the fifth century by the German tribes; the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, thus known as Anglo-Saxon words.
英语本族语词是公元5世纪由日耳曼部落盎格鲁人、萨克逊人和朱特人带入英国的，又称盎格鲁-萨克逊词语。
24 - Apart from the characteristics mentioned of the basic word stock, in contrast to borrowed words, native words have two other features:
除了上文提到的英语基本词汇的共同特点外，与外来语词相比，本族语词还有另外两个特点：
(1)Neutral in style. They are not stylistically specific. Stylistically, natives words are neither formal nor informal whereas the words borrowed from French or Latin are literary and learned, thus appropriate in formal style.
文体上中性。文体上有什么特定的色彩。从文体上来讲，本族语词无所谓正式或者不正式，而来源于法语和拉丁语的外来词富有文学色彩，为有学问人所用，使用的场合也较为正式。 (2)Frequent in use. Native words are most frequently used in everyday speech and writing.
使用频繁。本族语词在日常口语和书面语中使用的最为频繁。
25 - Words taken over from foreign languages are known as borrowed words or loan words or borrowings in simple terms. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute 80 percent of the modem English vocabulary. The English language is noted for the remarkable complexity and heterogeneity of its vocabulary because of its extensive borrowings.
来自其它语言的词简称为外来词或者借词。英英语中源于其它主要语言的借词有很多，据估计，现代英语词汇有80%是借词。由于广泛地使用借词，英语中的词汇呈现极为复杂而不纯的局面。
26 According to the degree of assimilation and manner of borrowing, we can bring the loan-words under four classes.
1）Denizens. Denizens are words borrowed early in the past and now well assimilated into the English language.
2）Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling. These words are immediately recognizable as foreign in origin.
3）Translation-loans. Words and expressions formed from existing material in the English language but modeled on the patterns taken from another language. Words translated according to the meaning. Words translated according to the sound.
4）Semantic-loans. Words of this category are not borrowed with reference to the form. But their meanings are borrowed. In other words, English has borrowed a new meaning for an existing word in the language.
-根据同化的程度和借词的方式，能够把外来语词归为4类。同化词是指早期从其它语言中借来现今已被英语通话了的词。非同化词是仍保留她们原来的发音和拼写形式的词。仅从发音和拼写形式我们便可看出这些词是外来词.译借词，是利用母语现有的词语但在构词模式上模仿了外语而构成的词。借义词，只借义，不借形。换句话说，英语利用现有词的形式赋予其新的外来语含义。
名词解释
1 - vocabulary
The term “vocabulary” is used in different senses. Not only can it refer to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period.
2 – terminology
Terminology consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine: photoscanning, penicillin.
3 – jargon
Jargon refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves.
4 – slang
Slang belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words (including informal ones available to everyone) and in-group words (like cant, jargon, and argot, all of which are associated with specific groups of the population).
5 – archaisms
Archaisms are words or forms that were once in common use but now are restricted only to specialized or limited use.
6 – content word
Content word denote clear notions including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals.
7 – native word
Native words, also known as Anglo-Saxon words, are word bought to Britain in the 5th century by the Germanic tribes.
8 – borrowed words
Words taken over from foreign languages are known as borrowed words.
9 – semantic loans
Words whose meanings are borrowed and whose forms are not borrowed.
简答题
1 – Explain the relationship between sound and meaning with examples.
There is no logical relationship between sound and meaning, and the connections between them are arbitrary and conventional. In other words, a cluster of sounds refers to something because the speakers of the language have agreed to do so. For example, different languages use different sounds to refer to the same thing, 妇女 in Chinese becomes women in English. In the same language the same sound could express different things, sun and son, night and knight.
2 – How do you classify English words?
English words can be classified by different criteria and for different purposes. Words may fall into the basic word stock and the non-basic vocabulary by use frequency, content words and functional words by notion, and native words and borrowed words by origin.
3 – Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and the phenomena of the world around us. Illustrate with examples the respects the words relating to.
Words of the basic word stock are usually related to the following respects: (1)natural phenomena: rain, snow, fire, water, sun, moon, etc. (2)Human body and relations: head, foot, hand, father, brother, etc. (3)Names of plants and animals: pine, grass, tree, sheep, cat, dog, etc. (4)Action, size, domain, state: come, go, good, young, cold, black, etc. (5)Numerals, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions: one, you, etc.
4 – What are the major differences between basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary?
(1) Basic word stock possesses five obvious characteristics, but non-basic vocabulary doesn’t.
(2) Basic word stock forms the common core of the language, whereas non-basic vocabulary doesn’t belong to the common core of the language.
5 – Why should we say that the all national character is the most important of the all features among the five?
Not all the words of the basic word stock have the five characteristics. Take pronouns and numerals for example, they enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but are semantically monosemous and have limited productivity and collocability. Therefore ‘all national character’ is the most important of all features that may differentiate word of common use from all others.
6 – What are neologisms? Give one example to illustrate it.
Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meanings, foe example AIDS, Internet.
7 – What is the difference between content words and functional words?
Content words denote clear notions, e.g. objects, phenomena, action, quality, state, degree, quantity, etc. functional words are empty words or form words, whose chief function is to express the relation between notions, the relation between words as well as between sentences. Functional words do not have notions of their own.
8 – How do you account for the role of native words in English in relation to loan-words?
In contrast to borrowed words, which come from other languages, native words of English form the mainstream of the basic word stock and stand at the core of the language.
9 – Why do we say “English is a heavy borrower”? Please justify it.
English owes 80% of its vocabulary to other languages. In fact, the English vocabulary contains words form all the major languages of the world. No other language of the world has borrowed so heavily. Therefore, the name “heavy borrower” is appropriate.
10 – group the following words and tell their origins.
From Chines: tea, ketchup, kowtow, kungfu;
From Latin: cook, port, wine, a.m., p.m., i.e., colony;
From French: commence, fraternal（兄弟般的）, pork, black humor, barber（理发师）, mutton;
From German: surplus value(剩余价值), masterpiece;
From Italian: intermezzo（间奏曲）;
From Old Norse（古挪威语）: shift, shirt.
11 – Supply two examples to illustrate that the influx of borrowing has caused some words to change in meaning.
Pig/pork, sheep/mutton. In Old English, animals and their meat shared the same name. With the Norman Conquest and the borrowing of corresponding French words, the English words were kept only for live animals and the French words for the animals killed and brought to the table.
Chapter 2
课文重点
1 - It is assumed that the world has approxi