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全国2009年7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. Words may fall into native words and
borrowed words by ______.( )
A. use
frequency B. notion
C. origin D. sound
2. Which of the following words does NOT
belong to jargon? ( )
A. Orchestra. B.
Bottom line.
C. Ballpark figures. D.
Bargaining chips.
3. In the sentence “It is
fun to play with children.”, there are ______
content words. ( )
A. 2 B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
4. Rapid growth of science and technology
breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT
______.( )
A. open heart surgery
C. moon walk
B. fast food
D. space
shuttle
5. Reviving archaic words also
contributes to the growth of English vocabulary.
For instance, the
Americans use “sick” for
______ in British English. ( )
A. six B.
ailment
C. throwing up D. ill
6. If we
say that Old English was a language of full
endings, Middle English was one of ______
endings. ( )
A. leveled B. short
C. long D. paralleled
7. The plural
morpheme “-s” is pronounced assin the following
words EXCEPT ______.
( )
A. packs
B. bags
C. cheats D. ships
8. There are
______ free morphemic words in the following
words: bird, man, red, turn.( )
A. 1 B.
2
C. 3 D. 4
9. The following words have
derivational affixes EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. subsea B. prewar
C. postwar D. desks
10. The suffix “-tion” is a ______ suffix. (
)
A. adjective B. verb
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C. adverb D. noun
11.
From the sentences “Hand in your papers.” and “She
papered the room green.”, we can see
such a
means of word formation as ______. ( )
A.
affixation
C. conversion
B. compounding
D. acronymy
12. The word “beg” comes from
the word “beggar”. Such a way of creating a new
word is called
______. ( )
A.
suffixation B. clipping
C. blending D. back-
formation
13. “Pen” and “sword” in the
sentence “The pen is mightier than the sword.” are
______
motivated words. ( )
A.
semantically
C. morphologically
B.
etymologically
D. onomatopoeically
14.
“Tables, men, potatoes” have the same ______
meaning, for they have the same plural
meaning. ( )
A. lexical B.
grammatical
C. conceptual D. associative
15. Stylistic features of words include the
following EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. formal
B. literary
C. argumentative D. slang
16.
The word ______ is an illustrative example of
concatenation. ( )
A. neck B. board
C. candidate D. harvest
17. Based on the
degree of ______, homonyms fall into three
classes: perfect homonyms,
homographs and
homophones. ( )
A. intensity B. property
C. similarity D. variety
18. Complete
synonyms are identical both in grammatical meaning
and lexical meaning,
including ______ and
associative meanings. ( )
A. conceptual
C. eventual
B. perceptual
D. actual
19. Narrowing of meaning, also called ______,
is the opposite of widening meaning.
( )
A. specialization
C. evolution
B.
realization
D. creation
20. As far as
transfer is concerned, the phrase “loud colours”
falls into the category of transfer
______.(
)
A. from concrete to abstract meanings
B. from abstract to concrete meanings
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C.
through association
D. of sensations
21.
In the sentence “She said with an embarrassed
laugh.”, the word “embarrassed” can be
classified into ______ sense of transfer. (
)
A. subjective
C. sensational
B.
objective
D. physical
( )
A.
cultural
C. lexical
B. grammatical
D. situational
22. Based on ______
context, we can determine the meaning of “do the
flowers”.
23. Physical situation or
environment relating to the use of words is called
______ or
non-linguistic context. ( )
A. extra-linguistic B. lexical
C.
grammatical D. syntactical
24. In the
sentence “Many United Nations employees are
polyglots. Mr. Mary, for example,
speaks five
languages.”, the word “polyglot” is explained by
______ clue. ( )
A. definition B.
example
C. synonymy D. hyponymy
25. Which
of the following is NOT one of the stylistic
features of idioms? ( )
A. Frozen style.
B. Slang.
C. Literary style. D.
Colloquialisms.
26. “Chop and change” is an
idiom ______ in nature. ( )
A. verbal B.
nominal
C. adjectival D. adverbial
27.
The change of idiom “the last straw” from the
original form is ______.( )
A.
replacement B. dismembering
C. addition D.
shortening
28. Encyclopedic dictionaries can
be further divided into ______ and encyclopedic
dictionaries.
( )
A. linguistic B.
encyclopedia
C. specialized D. unabridged
29. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic
English is a(n) ______ dictionary. ( )
A.
specialized B. desk
C. pocket D.
encyclopedic
30. Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English (LDCE) was noted for the
following aspects
EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. its wide coverage of new words, new
meanings and new usages
B. its simple and
clear definitions
C. its use of extra column
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D. its
meticulous and complete grammatical information
Ⅱ. Match the words in Column A with the words
in Column B according to 1) types of
vocabulary by notion; 2) types of morphemes;
3) sense relations and 4) types of idioms.
(10% )
A B
( ) 31.
richwell-to-dopoor
( ) 32. call it a day
( ) 33. sow v. to scatter seedssow n. female
adult pig
( ) 34. recollectionidealistic
( ) 35. employeremployee
( ) 36.
withoutbehind
( ) 37. fishherring
(
) 38. cut and dried
( ) 39. watchteach
( ) 40. brain trust
course book. (10%)
41. According to semanticists, a word is a
unit of ______.
42. Modern English vocabulary
develops through three channels: creation,
semantic change and
______.
43. ______
morphemes are chiefly found in derived words.
44. Prefixes only modify the ______ of the
stem.
45. Lexical ______ of a word has two
components: conceptual meaning and associative
meaning.
46. In dictionaries, a ______ has its
meanings all listed under one headword whereas
homonyms
are listed as separate entries.
47. Indeed, it often happens that a word is
retained for a name though the meaning has changed
because the ______ has changed.
48. The
sentence “I lost Betty's picture.” is ambiguous
due to ______.
49. Based on the criterion of
______ functions, idioms may be classified into
five groups.
50. Encyclopedic dictionaries
have the characteristics of both ______
dictionaries and
encyclopedia.
Ⅳ. Define
the following terms. (10%)
51. word
52.
clipping
53. onomatopoeic
54. synchronic
approach
55. desk dictionaries
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A.
contradictory term of antonym
B.
superordinatesubordinate
C. homograph
D.
idiom nominal in nature
E. notional words
F. relative term of antonym
G. bound
morphemes
H. free morphemes
I. idiom
verbal in nature
J. idiom adjectival in nature
Ⅲ. Complete the following statements with
proper words or expressions according to the
Ⅴ. Answer the following questions. Your
answers should be clear and short. Write your
answers in the space given below. (20 % )
56. Why, in modern English, were word endings
mostly lost with just a few exceptions?
57.
What are the differences between inflectional
affixes and derivational affixes?
58. How do
you account for the semantic change in the living
languages?
59. What are contextual clues? Find
out the meanings of the words in bold type and
tell what
contextual clues have helped you in
arriving at the meanings.
A. Do you know the
architect? He designed St. Paul's Cathedral.
B. The book was only published posthumously,
for the author had been dead for three years
already.
C. It is undesirable to write
with too many parentheses, a pair of brackets
round word or phrases.
Ⅵ. Analyze and comment
on the following. Write your answers in the space
given below.
(20%)
60. Analyze and comment
on the three causes of meaning change within the
scope of the
extra-linguistic factors, each
with example word(s) given below.
pen, atom
churl
copperhead
61. Analyze and
comment on the fundamental difference between the
processes of radiation and
concatenation with
the words neck and treacle.
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