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浙江省2018年7月自学考试英语词汇学试题
课程代码：10059
I. Each of the following
statements below is followed by four alternatives.
Choose the one that would best
complete the
statement. (15%, 1 point for each)
1. The
Norman Conquest in 1066 introduced a large number
of _____ words into the English vocabulary.
A. Latin
C. Danish
A. 500,000
C.
200,000
A. creation, conversion and borrowing
B. creation, semantic change and borrowing
C. creation, borrowing and back-formation
D. semantic change, borrowing and back-
formation
4. Which of the following is NOT
true?_____
A. A word is a sound unity.
B.
A word has a given meaning.
C. A word can be
used freely in a sentence.
D. A word is the
smallest form of a language.
5. Of the five
characteristics listed for the basic word stock,
the most important is _____.
A. all national
character
C. polysemy
A. semantic change
C. origins
A. denotation, connotation and
intensity
C. denotation, connotation and
application
come to be used in derogatory
sense.
A. Extension
C. Narrowing
A.
onomatopoeically
C. semantically
B.
Elevation
D. Degradation
B.
morphologically
D. etymologically
B.
productivity
D. collocability
B. the
morphemes combined
D. word-formation
B.
connotation, intensity and application
D.
connotation, implication and application
B.
Greek
D. French
B. 1,000,000
D.
2,000,000
2. According to the textbook, the
general estimate of the present-day English
vocabulary is over _____.
3. Modern English
vocabulary develops through three channels:_____.
6. The meanings of etymologically motivated
words relate directly to their _____.
7. The
differences between synonyms boil down to the
three areas: _____.
8. _____ of meaning is the
process by which words of good origin fall into
ill reputation or non-affective words
9. Words
like cuckoo, ping-pong are _____ motivated.
10. Antonyms are often used in proverbs to
_____.
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A. express ideas
economically
C. form metaphors
B.
express ideas easily
D. form antithesis to
achieve emphasis
11. Associative meaning,
according to GLeech, comprises four types, they
are _____.
A. connotative, stylistic,
affective and collocative
B. connotative,
stylistic, affective and lexical
C.
connotative, stylistic, affective and grammatical
D. connotative, stylistic, affective and
conceptual
12. The development of word meaning
from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses:
_____.
A. radiation and narrowing
C.
radiation and concatenation
A. outside the
language
C. with the meaning
A. The World
Book Dictionary
B. The Encyclopedia Americana
C. Webster’s New World Dictionary
D.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
15. Collins COBUILD English Language
Dictionary ( CCELD) (1987) has such unique
features as _____.
A. definition, usage
examples and language notes
B. definition,
extra column and usage examples
C. definition,
extra column and language notes
D. definition,
usage examples and clear grammar codes
II.
Decide whether the following statements are true
or false. Write T for true and F for false. (20%,
2
points for each)
16.( ) English is
more closely related to German than French.
17.( ) A root is the basic form of a word
which cannot be analyzed without total loss of
identity.
18.( ) Suffixes have only a
small semantic role, their primary function being
to change the grammatical
function of stems.
19.( ) Lexical meaning and associative
meaning make up the word-meaning.
20.( )
Words produced by conversion are primarily nouns,
adjectives, and verbs. The most productive,
however, is the conversion that takes place
between nouns and adjectives.
21.( ) Of
the five groups of idioms, idioms nominal in
nature are the largest group.
22.( )
Motivation explains why a particular form has a
particular meaning.
23.( ) Homonyms come
mainly from borrowing, changes in sound and
spelling, and dialects.
24.( ) The
unmarked term of an antonymous pair often covers
the meaning of the marked.
25.( )
Extension of meaning, also known as
generalization, is the name given to the widening
of meaning
which some words undergo.
III.
Match the words in Column A with the words in
Column B according to the sense relations. (10%, 1
2
B. concatenation and widening
D. radiation and widening
B. inside the
language
D. between the language and the world
13. Unlike reference, sense denotes the
relationships _____.
14. According to the
textbook, the best-known unabridged dictionary is
_____.
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point for each)
A
26. bear (v.) bear (n.)
27. sell buy
28. dear deer
29. sow ( v.) sow (n.)
30. small little
31. rich poor
32.
table, chair
33. animal lion
34. railway
railroad
35. male female
B
A.
homographs
B. dialectal synonyms
C.
relative terms
D. contradictory terms
E.
emotive synonyms
F. superordinate subordinate
G. homophones
H. contrary terms
I.
perfect homonyms
J. furniture hyponymy
26. ( ) 27. ( ) 28. ( ) 29.
( ) 30. ( )
31. ( ) 32. (
) 33. ( ) 34. ( ) 35. ( )
IV. Complete the following statements with
proper expressions according to the textbook.
(10%, 2 points
for each)
36. There are
generally two approaches to the study of words,
namely synchronic and _____.
37. The language
used between 450 and 1150 is called _____, which
has a vocabulary of 50,000 to 60,000.
38.
Semantic motivation refers to the mental _____
suggested by the conceptual meaning of a word.
39. The words which are fully identical in
meaning are called _____ synonyms.
40. Words
may fall into the basic word stock and _____
vocabulary by use frequency.
V. Study the
following words and decide how each word is
formed. (10%, 2 points for each)
Example:
disobey(Affixation)
41. honeybee (
)
42. disco ( )
( )
44. AIDS ( )
45. autocide ( )
VI.
Answer the following questions. (20%, 5 points for
each)
46. Why are free morphemes and free
roots identical?
47. How do you understand
semantic motivation?
48. What are the
functions of context?
49. In what ways do
compounds differ from free phrases?
VII.
Analyze and comment on the given sentences. Pick
out the idiom in the sentence, and point out its
structure, grammatical function and figure of
speech. (15%)
50. Look at Mary. She’s eating
like a horse!
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