英语词汇学
历年真题
In an English dictionaryit’s easy to find words that have two or three senses or even more.This is a common feature that is called_
The primary meaning of the wordface is“___-”
Ofthe following pairs,“_____"is homophones.
Fabulous began with the meaning of“based on a fable” but later came to mean“incredible” since the incredible were often found in fablesThis process is called__.
Which one ofthe following words is an example oftransfer through association?
Computer formerly meant “a person who computes”, but now comes to mean“an electronic machine”. Such change of meaning is due to
In the sentence Sarcasm doesn't become you,the word become means“”
Speaker:a student;Hearer: a set ofstudents;Place:sitting around a coffee table in the refectory. John, one ofthe group,has just told a joke.Everyone laughs except Adam. Then Adam laughs. One of the students says: I do think Adam's quick .The word quick in the above context means“____”
Copernicus believed in a heliocentric universe, rather than in the geocentric theory According to the contextthe word heliocentric means“________”
Quite often an idiom functions as one word. For instance,the idiom keep in mind can be replaced by“________”
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