化验单2011年7月自学词汇学真题及答案

2021年1月14日发(作者：利菁)
2011年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试
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. Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can
function in a sentence. ( D )1.1-6
A. small B. large
C. fixed D. free
2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should
________ that of the oral form. ( A )1.3-8
A. agree with B. disagree with
C. be the same as D. be different from
3. ____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines
and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. ( A )1.5.1-13
A. Terminology B. Jargon
C. Slang D. Argot
4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as
the followings EXCEPT_________. ( C )2.3-30
A. fast food B. TV dinner
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C. Mao jackets D. Watergate
5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English
vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth
century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English.
( D )2.4-32
A. own B. let
C. rent D. lend
6. If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle
English was one of leveled endings. ( A )2.2.2-28
A. full
C. long
B. short
D. paralleled
7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words
EXCEPT ______________. ( D )3.2-38
A. bottles B. eggs
C. zoos D. maps
8. There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following
words: wind, man, reddish, collection. ( B )3.3.1-39
A. l
C. 3
B. 2
D. 4
9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________.
( B )3.3.2-41
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A. likes B. dislike
C. liking D. liked
10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT
_______________.
( B )4-45
A. affixation B. blending
C. compounding D. conversion
11. Prefixes generally do not change the __________ of the stem.
( C )4.1.1-46
A. meaning B. form
C. word class D. pronunciation
12. The word “dorm” is formed by _________clipping. ( A )4.5-65
A. back B. front
C. phrase D. front and back
13. The word “reading-lamp” is _______ motivated. ( B )5.2.2-84
A. onomatopoeically B. morphologically
C. semantically D. etymologically
14. The synonymous pair of “ask－question” has the same___________.
( D )5.1.2-83
A. motivation B. value

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C. function D. concept
15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its
__________ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc. ( B )5.3.2-88
A. grammatical B. connotative
C. stylistic D. collocative
16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to
them in____________.
( A )6-95
A. sense B. spelling
C. morpheme D. root and stem
17. _____________, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary
in comparison.
( A )6.1.1-97
A. Synchronically B. Diachronically
C. Etymologically D. Onomatopoeically
18. The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; silence is
golden” are ____________.
( A )6-131
A. speech-silence B. golden-silver
C. speech-silver D. silence- golden
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19. In Shakespearean line ‘Rats and mice and such small ‘deer’,
‘deer’ obviously designates ‘anima’ in general. Therefore ‘deer’
is a typical example of _________. ( C )7.1.2-137
A. extension B. elevation
C. narrowing D. degradation
20. Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to
change in denotation from neutral to ____________ than it is for them to
go the other way. ( D )7.1.4-139
A. important B. agreeable
C. respective D. pejorative
21. Among the following words only“________ ” expresses the property
of elevation. ( C )7.1.3-138
A. lust B. criticize
C. knight D. silly
22. Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context?
( C )8.2-154
A. Elimination of ambiguity.
B. Indication for referents.
C. Understanding of cultural background.
D. Provision of clues for inferring word- meaning.

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23. Which of the following is NOT a context clue? ( D )8.2.3-157
A. Definition. B. Example.
C. Synonymy. D. Sentence structure.
24. The sentence “The ball was attractive” is ambiguous due
to_______________. ( C )8.2.1-155
A. grammatical structure B. lexical context
C. homonymy D. polysemy
25. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms?
( A )9.1-162
A. Semantic unity. B. Lexical manipulation.
C. Phonetic unity. D. Structural variation.
26. Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of
idioms in general?( B )9.3.2-169
A. Stylistic features. B. Syntactical features.
C. Rhetorical features. D. Occasional variations.
27. The idiom “bed of dust” is a ___________ as far as figures of speech
are concerned.
( B )9.3.2-175
A. simile B. metaphor
C. metonymy D. personification
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