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
B.sound
C.combination of sounds
D.group

2.The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.（　　）
A.more slowly than
B.as quickly as
C.more rapidly than
D.not so quickly as

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

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

5.Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new ______ to meet the new need.（　　）
A.form
B.meaning
C.look
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
B.fell
C.for
D.autumn

7.The plural morpheme "-s" is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT ______.（　　）
A./t/
B./g/
C./p/
D./k/

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

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

10.30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through ______.（　　）
A.compounding
B.affixation
C.conversion
D.shortening

11.The word "motel" is created by ______.（　　）
A.compounding
B.clipping
C.blending
D.suffixation

12."BBC" is formed in the way of ______.（　　）
A.acronymy
B.clipping
C.back-formation
D.prefixation

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

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

15.______ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.（　　）
A.Reference
B.Concept
C.Sense
D.Motivation

16.Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of ______.（　　）
A.word formation
B.word meaning
C.meaning change
D.sense relations

17.When a word is first coined, it is always ______.（　　）
A.semantic
B.onomatopoeic
C.monosemic
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
B.rich/wealthy
C.forlorn/distressed
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
B.forms
C.dialects
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
B.elevation
C.narrowing
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
B.objective
C.sensational
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
B.polysemy
C.antonymy
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 ______.（　　）
A.relevant details
B.synonymy
C.antonymy
D.hyponymy

25.The idiom "toss and turn" is a(n) ______ as far as rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.
（　　）
A.alliteration
B.metaphor
C.metonymy
D.rhyme

26.Which of the following is NOT one of the types of idioms?（　　）
A.Sentence idioms.
B.Idioms adverbial in nature.
C.Clausal idioms.
D.Idioms nominal in nature.

27.The following are all variations of idioms, EXCEPT ______.（　　）
A.replacement
B.addition
C.shortening
D.repetition

28.Generally speaking, a dictionary will cover the following content EXCEPT

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