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全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码:00832

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.According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.( ) A.meaning

C.combination of sounds

B.Sound D.Group

2.The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.( ) A.more slowly than C.more rapidly than

B.As quickly as D.Not so quickly as

3.Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.( ) A.use frequency C.origin

B.notion D.sound

4.Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT______.( ) A.green revolution C.moon walk

B.fast food D.space shuttle

5.Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new ______ to meet the new need.

( )

A.form C.look

B.meaning D.pronunciation

6.Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American English “fall” means ______ in British English.( ) A.four C.for

B.fell D.autumn

7.The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT ______.

( )

A./t/ C./p/

B./g/ D./k/

8.There are ______ free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.( ) A.one C.three

B.two D.four

9.The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.( ) A.works C.postwar

B.prewar D.bloody

10.30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through ______.

( )

A.compounding C.conversion

B.affixation D.shortening

11.The word “motel” is created by ______.( ) A.compounding C.blending

B.clipping D.suffixation

12.“BBC” is formed in the way of ______.( ) A.acronymy C.back-formation

B.clipping D.prefixation

13.The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT ______.( ) A.grammatical meaning C.associative meaning

B.conceptual meaning D.literal meaning

14.By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.( ) A.onomatopoeic C.semantic

B.morphological D.etymological

15.______ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.

( )

A.Reference C.Sense

B.Concept D.Motivation

16.Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of ______.

( )

A.word formation C.meaning change

B.word meaning D.Sense relations

17.When a word is first coined, it is always ______.( ) A.semantic C.monosemic

B.onomatopoeic D.polysemic

18.The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas

the first is archaic, EXCEPT ______.( ) A.ire/anger C.forlorn/distressed

B.rich/wealthy D.bliss/happiness

19.Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words

were used in different ______ from what they have now in dictionaries.( ) A.senses C.dialects

B.Forms D.Terms

20.The mode of ______ is well reflected in the word “picture”, which originally denoted mere

“painting”, but now has come to include “drawings” and even “photographs”( ) A.extension C.narrowing

B.elevation D.degradation

21.In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the ______ sense of transfer.( ) A.subjective C.sensational

B.objective D.physical

22.Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of context?( ) A.Elimination of ambiguity. B.Indication of referents.

C.Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.

D.Provision of culture background for inferring word-meaning.

23.The sentence “I lost Betty’s picture.” is ambiguous due to ______.( ) A.grammatical context C.antonymy

B.polysemy D.hyponymy

24.In the sentence “An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a

sou’Wester usually brings rain.”, the meaning of “sou’wester” can be inferred from the clue of ______.( )

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