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全国自考2018年7月英语词汇学试题
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. B. Algebra.
C.
Symphony. 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 B. productivity
C.
polysemy 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 B. Indo-European
C. Czech D. Russian
6. The surviving
languages accordingly fall into eight principal
groups, which can be grouped
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into the ________ set and the Western set. (
)
A. Eastern B. African
C. American D.
Northern
7. The plural morpheme “-s” is
realized by z after the following sounds EXCEPT
________.
( )
A.z B.g
C.d
D.b
8. The word “recollection” comprises
________ morphemes. ( )
A.1 B.2
C.3 D.4
9. The following words have
inflectional affixes EXCEPT ________. ( )
A. works B. worker
C. working D.
worked
10. “Dis-” in the word “disloyal” is a
________ prefix. ( )
A. negative B.
reversative
C. pejorative D. locative
11. The word “AIDS” is a(n) ________. ( )
A. initialism B. acronym
C. derivative
D. compound
12. The word “smog” is created by
blending, with the structure of ________. (
A. head + tail B. head + head
C. head + word
D. word + tail
13. So far as stylistic meaning
is concerned, “residence” is ________. (
)
A. neutral B. informal
C. colloquial
D. formal
14. Words which are used to show the
attitude of approval are ________. (
2
)
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A.
appreciative B. pejorative
C. connotative
D. collocative
15. “Pavement” in British
English and “sidewalk” in American English have
the same
________.
( )
A.
motivation B. collocation
C. sense D.
connotation
16. A common feature peculiar to
all natural languages is ________. ( )
A. homonymy B. hyponymy
C. monosemy D.
polysemy
17. In both CCELD and LDCE, the most
frequently used meaning of the word “gay” is
________.
( )
A. joyous and
lively, merry, happy B. homosexual
C. given
to social life and pleasure D. bright, brilliant
18. All the following words can be used as an
antonym to the word “clear” EXCEPT
________.
( )
A. dirty B. fussy
C.
guilty D. ambiguous
19. The change of word
meaning is brought about by the following internal
factors EXCEPT
________. ( )
A.
influx of borrowing B. analogy
C.
psychological factors 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
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“handwriting” only.( )
A.
degradation B. elevation
C. narrowing D.
extension
21. In the sentence “Never run
towards a dangerous animal.”, the word “dangerous”
is used
in the ________ sense of transfer. (
)
A. subjective B. objective
C.
sensational D. physical
22. The sentence
“They saw her duck.” is ambiguous due to ________.
( )
A. grammatical context B. lexical
context
C. antonymy D. hyponymy
23. The
following are types of context EXCEPT ________. (
)
A. linguistic context B. non-linguistic
context
C. syntactical 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 B.
word structure
C. antonymy D. hyponymy
25. The idiom “hustle and bustle” is a
________ as far as rhetorical features of idioms
are
concerned. ( )
A. simile B.
repetition
C. reiteration D. personification
26. Sentence idioms embrace the following
sentence types EXCEPT ________. ( )
A.
declarative sentence B. interrogative sentence
C. imperative sentence D. simple sentence
27. “Beyond the pale” is an idiom ________ in
nature. ( )
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A. verbal
B. nominal
C. adjectival 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 B. desk
C. pocket 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 A.
laconic meaning “brief” or “short”
( )
32. associated transfer B. the foot of the
mountain
( ) 33. borrowing C. squeakhiss
D. You should address your remarks to the
chair. ( ) 34. etymological motivation
(
) 35. notional words E. charmglamour
F. black
marketgreenhorn
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( ) 36. abstract
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( ) 37. semantic
motivation G. occupationwalk of life
( )
38. figurative use H. fireflameconflagration
( ) 39. regional English I. This
teaching assistant is an efficient help.
(
) 40. onomatopoeic motivation 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
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55. grammatical context
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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