presentday全国2012年7月自考英语词汇学真题试题

2020年11月25日发(作者：巢雨霖)
全国2012年7月自考英语词汇学真题试题
课程代码：00832
Ⅰ.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. C
hoose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the brack
et. (30%)
1. Words can be classified into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabula
ry by ______. （ ）
A. use frequency
B. notion
C. origin
D. grammar
2. In formal use, “pot” means “cooking utensil”. Whereas, when it mean
s “marijuana”, it is a ______. （ ）
A. jargon
B. terminology
C. slang
D. argot
3. Translation-loans are words and expressions formed from the existing ma
terial in the English language but modelled on the patterns taken from another
language. For example, the English expression “long time no see” is from ____
__. （ ）
A. Latin
B. Chinese
C. Greek
D. French
4. The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European Languages: N
orwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as ______ la
nguages. （ ）
A. Hellenic
B. Albanian
C. Celtic
D. Scandinavian
5. Which of the following is NOT the main source of new words? （ ）
A. The rapid development of modern science and technology.
B. Social, economic and political changes.
C. Environmental protection.
D. The influence of other cultures and languages.
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ ）
A. In modern times，borrowing brings less than ten percent of modern Engli
sh vocabulary.
B. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of
words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.
C. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day Englis
h is creation of new words by means of word-formation.
D. In early Middle English period，English，Latin，and Celtic existed side
by side.
7. There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words：worker, c
ar, impossible，anger, politely. （ ）
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
8. There is/are ______ stem(s)in the word“internationalists” （ ）
A 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
9. The past tense marker“-ed”is pronounced as/t/in the following words E
XCEPT ______.（ ）
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A. enabled
B. worked
C. jumped
D. helped
10. The most productive ways of word-formation in modern English are the f
ollowing EXCEPT ______.（ ）
A. affixation
B. compounding
C. conversion
D. blending
11. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called ____
__. （ ）
A. clipping
B. compounding
C. acronymy
D. back-formation
12. The word “pop” belongs to ______ clipping. （ ）
A. front
B. back
C. front and back
D. phrase
13. The ______ meaning of words usually shows the attitude of approval of
the speaker. （ ）
A. affective
B. appreciative
C. pejorative
D. connotative
14. Which of the following is NOT one of the associative meaning of a word?
（ ）
A. Grammatical meaning.
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B. Stylistic meaning.
C. Collocative meaning.
D. Connotative meaning.
15. ______ motivation explains the connection between the literal sense an
d figurative sense of the word.（ ）
A. Morphological
B. Onomatopoeic
C. Semantic
D. Etymological
16. Antonyms are classified on the basis of ______ opposition. （ ）
A. semantic
B. euphemistic
C. idiomatic
D. grammatical
17. Lion，elephant，tiger, turtle，sheep and snake are ______ of animal.
（ ）
A. hyponyms
B. synonyms
C. collocation
D. denomination
18. As far as denotation is concerned，relative synonyms may differ ______.
（ ）
A. in the diachronic approach
B. in the stylistic and emotive colouring of words
C. in usage in simple terms
D. in the range and intensity of meaning
19. Borrowing has caused word- meaning changes，as indicated in“______ for
merly meant animal，and later animal from Latin and beast from French found the
ir way into English ______.”（ ）
A. deer