全国2010年4月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
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. 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
B.TV 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. perso

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