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全国2008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. Which
of the following words does NOT belong to
terminology? ( )
A. Penicillin.
C.
Symphony.
B. Algebra.
D. Knife.
2. In
the sentence “I like to see a movie.”, there are
________ functional words. ( )
A.2
C.4
B.3
D.5
3. Of the characteristics
listed for the basic word stock, the most
important is ________. ( )
A. all
national character
C. polysemy
B.
productivity
D. collocability
4. Social,
economic and political changes bring about such
new words as the following EXCEPT
________. (
)
A. fast food
C. tahini
B. TV
dinner
D. Watergate
5. The prehistoric
________ parent language is thought to be a highly
inflected language, which
English originated
from. ( )
A. Prussian
C. Czech
B. Indo-European
D. Russian
6. The
surviving languages accordingly fall into eight
principal groups, which can be grouped into
the ________ set and the Western set. ( )
A. Eastern
C. American
B. African
D. Northern
7. The plural morpheme “-s” is
realized by z after the following sounds EXCEPT
________.
( )
A.z
C.d
B.g
D.b
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8. The word “recollection” comprises
________ morphemes. ( )
A.1
C.3
B.2
D.4
9. The following words have
inflectional affixes EXCEPT ________. ( )
A. works
C. working
B. worker
D. worked
10. “Dis-” in the word
“disloyal” is a ________ prefix. ( )
A.
negative
C. pejorative
B. reversative
D. locative
11. The word “AIDS” is a(n)
________. ( )
A. initialism
C.
derivative
B. acronym
D. compound
12.
The word “smog” is created by blending, with the
structure of ________. ( )
A. head +
tail
C. head + word
B. head + head
D. word + tail
13. So far as stylistic
meaning is concerned, “residence” is ________. (
)
A. neutral
C. colloquial
B.
informal
D. formal
14. Words which are
used to show the attitude of approval are
________. ( )
A. appreciative
C.
connotative
B. pejorative
D. collocative
15. “Pavement” in British English and
“sidewalk” in American English have the same
________.
( )
A. motivation
C. sense
B. collocation
D. connotation
16. A common feature peculiar to all natural
languages is ________. ( )
A. homonymy
C. monosemy
B. hyponymy
D. polysemy
17. In both CCELD and LDCE, the most
frequently used meaning of the word “gay” is
________.
( )
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A. joyous and lively, merry,
happy
C. given to social life and pleasure
B. homosexual
D. bright, brilliant
18.
All the following words can be used as an antonym
to the word “clear” EXCEPT ________.
( )
A. dirty
C. guilty
B. fussy
D.
ambiguous
19. The change of word meaning is
brought about by the following internal factors
EXCEPT
________. ( )
A. influx of
borrowing
C. psychological factors
B.
analogy
D. shortening
20. A good example
of ________ is the word “manuscript”, which now
means “writing by hand
or typed with a type-
writer or a word-processor”, but its original
meaning was “handwriting”
only.( )
A. degradation
C. narrowing
B.
elevation
D. extension
21. In the sentence
“Never run towards a dangerous animal.”, the word
“dangerous” is used in the
________ sense of
transfer. ( )
A. subjective
C.
sensational
B. objective
D. physical
22. The sentence “They saw her duck.” is
ambiguous due to ________. ( )
A.
grammatical context
C. antonymy
B.
lexical context
D. hyponymy
23. The
following are types of context EXCEPT ________. (
)
A. linguistic context
C. syntactical
context
B. non-linguistic context
D.
extra-linguistic context
24. In the sentence
“The village had most of the usual amenities: a
pub, a library, a post office, a
village hall,
a medical centre, and a school.” The meaning of
amenity can be inferred from the
clue of
________. ( )
A. relevant details
C. antonymy
B. word structure
D. hyponymy
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25.
The idiom “hustle and bustle” is a ________ as far
as rhetorical features of idioms are
concerned. ( )
A. simile
C.
reiteration
B. repetition
D.
personification
26. Sentence idioms embrace
the following sentence types EXCEPT ________. (
)
A. declarative sentence
C. imperative
sentence
B. interrogative sentence
D.
simple sentence
27. “Beyond the pale” is an
idiom ________ in nature. ( )
A. verbal
C. adjectival
B. nominal
D. adverbial
28. The following are the types of dictionary
EXCEPT ________. ( )
A. monolingual
dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries
B.
linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries
C.
specialized dictionaries
D. Chinese and
English dictionaries
29. Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition (1980) is a(n)
________ dictionary.
( )
A.
specialized
C. pocket
B. desk
D.
encyclopedic
30. Usage notes of the dictionary
explain the following aspects EXCEPT ________. (
)
A. literal meanings of the words
B.
difficult points of grammar and style
C.
important British and American differences
D.
slight differences between words of similar
meanings
II. Match the words in Column A with
the words in Column B according to 1) types of
vocabulary by notion; 2) sources of synonyms;
3) types of motivation; and 4) types of
transfer. (10%)
A
B
( ) 31. morphological motivation
( ) 32. associated transfer
A.
laconic meaning “brief” or “short”
B. the foot
of the mountain
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( ) 33. borrowing
( )
34. etymological motivation
( ) 35.
notional words
( ) 36. abstract to
concrete
( ) 37. semantic motivation
( ) 38. figurative use
( ) 39.
regional English
( ) 40. onomatopoeic
motivation
C. squeakhiss
D. You should
address your remarks to the chair.
E.
charmglamour
F. black marketgreenhorn
G.
occupationwalk of life
H.
fireflameconflagration
I. This teaching
assistant is an efficient help.
J. cloudyellow
III. Complete the following statements with
proper words or expressions according to the
course book. (10%)
41. As defined in terms
of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or
________ of sounds
which are made voluntarily
with human vocal equipment.
42. Modern English
vocabulary develops through three channels:
creation, ________ and
borrowing.
43. The
________ is the smallest functioning unit in the
composition of words.
44. Suffixation
generally changes the grammatical function or word
________ of stems of words.
45. ________
indicates the speaker’s attitude towards the
person or thing in question.
46. Relative
synonyms or ________ are similar or nearly the
same in denotation, but embrace
different
shades of meaning or different degrees of a given
quality.
47. There are generally ________
major factors that cause changes in meaning.
48. Physical situation or environment relating
to the use of words is called ________ or
non-
linguistic context.
49. Unlike free phrases,
the structure of an idiom is to a large extent
________.
50. Three good general dictionaries
are LDCE, CCELD and ________.
IV. Define the
following terms. (10%)
51. bound root
52.
prefixation
53. pejoration
34. homophone
55. grammatical context
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V. Answer the following
questions. Your answers should be clear and short.
Write your
answers in the space given below.
(20%)
56. What are the types of morphemes?
57. What is conceptual meaning of a word? Give
an example to illustrate your point.
58.
Decide whether the following statement is true or
false, based on your understanding of the
changes in word meaning. State your reason
with one example.
Elevation or amelioration
refers to the process by which words rise from
humble beginnings to
positions of importance.
59. What is semantic unity of idioms? Explain
it with one example.
VI. Analyze and comment
on the following. Write your answers in the space
given below.
(20%)
60. Comment on the
following 2 groups of words or sentences to
illustrate the semantic features
and
grammatical features of compounds.
Group 1:
“red meathot dog”
Group 2: “He bad-mouthed me.
major generals”
61. Analyze and comment on the
following two pairs of sentences in terms of
superordinates and
subordinates:
[a]Trees
surround the water near our summer place.
[b]Old elms surround the lake near our summer
cabin.
[a]I met a writer who is the
relation of a politician.
[b]I met a newspaper
reporter who is the brother of Senator Buckley.
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