2010---2011全国高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题

全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)

1. When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a ____ group of letters printed or written horizontally across a piece of paper. ( )

A. small B. meaningful C. vocal D. large

2. ____ 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. ( )

A. Terminology B. Jargon C. Slang D. Argot

3. "I'm sure that they will come today."

There are____content words in the above sentence. ( )

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

4. Which of the following is one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? ( )

A. Acronym. B. Blending. C. Elevation. D. Borrowing.

5. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT____. ( )

A. kungfu http://www.77cn.com.cn dinner C. fast food D. Watergate

6. In modern times, ____is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. ( )

A. semantic change B. borrowing C, expansion D. creation

7. The plural morphme "-s" is realizd by/Iz/after the following sounds EXCEPT____.( )

A. /s/ B. /g/ C. /z/ D. /ろ/

8. The word "idealistic" comprises ____morphemes. ( )

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____.( )

A. happier B. worker C. harder D. taller

10. "Washing machine" is a word formed by____.( )

A. prefixation B. compounding C. conversion D. blending

11. "TV" is a(n) ____.( )

A. initialism B. acronym C. derivative D. compound

12. The prefix "mis-" in the word "mistrust" is a ____prefix. ( )

A. negative B. reversative C. pejorative D. locative

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of "word meaning"? ( )

A. Reference. B. Concept. C. Sense. D. Pronunciation.

14. Such synonymous pair as "die-pass away" has the same ____but different stylistic values. ( )

A. reference B. concept C. motivation D. style

15. The word "airmail" is ____motivated. ( )

A. onomatopoeically B. etymologically C. semantically D. morphologically

16. Words are arbitrary symbols with independent identities so far as their spelling and pronunciation is concerned. But ____, all words are related in one way or another.( )

A. linguistically B. semantically C. grammatically D. pragmatically

17, ____, the basic meaning of a word is the core of word-meaning called the central meaning. ( )

A. Onomatopoeically B. Diachronically C. Synchronically D. Etymologically

18. One important criterion to tell the fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is to see their____. ( )

A. ideology B. etymology C. mythology D. methodology

19. Vocabulary is the most ____element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. ( )

A. unbalanced B. unstable C. unhinged D. undoubted

20. In Shakespeare's well-known Hamlet, rival means "____"and jump means "just". ( )

A. janitor B. partner C. collector D. observer

21. In the sentence "Just after two years he is quite a grown boy now." The word grown can be classified into ____sense of transfer. ( )

A. physical B. objective C. sensational D. subjective

22. In some cases, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is called ____context. ( )

A. non-linguistic B. lexical C. grammatical D. cultural

23. The sentence "He is a hard businessman." is ambiguous due to____. ( )

A. grammatical structure B. lexical context C. homonymy D. polysemy

24. The extra-linguistic context may extend to embrace the entire____. ( )

A. physical situation B. grammatical structure C. mental activity D. cultural background

25. Which of the following is NOT one respect of the rhetorical features of idioms? ( )

A. Phonetic manipulation. B. Lexical manipulation. C. Syntactical manipulation. D. Figures of speech.

26. In nothing flat as an idiom is ____in nature. ( )

A. verbal B. nominal C. adjectival D. adverbial

27. The idiom "failure is the mother of success" is a ____ as far as figures of speech are concerned. ( )

A. simile B. metaphor C. metonymy D. personification

28. Which of the following is NOT one of the three good general dictionaries mentioned in the textbook? ( )

A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. B. Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

C. A Chinese-English Dictionary. D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary.

29. Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the best-known ______dictionary. ( )

A. unabridged B. desk C. pocket D. encyclopedic

30. British dictionaries generally use____to mark the pronunciation.

A. British Phonetic Alphabe t B. American Phonetic Alphabet

C. International Phonetic Alphabet D. Webster's Phonetic Alphabet

II. Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of prefixes; 2) the functions of affixes; 3) types of antonyms; and 4) types of meanings. (10%)

A B

( ) 31. appreciative meanings A. maltreat

( ) 32. parent/child B. Jap/nigger

( ) 33. pejorative prefixes C. tremble (not quiver) with fear

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