历年4月英语词汇学真题和答案(2008-2011)

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全国2009年4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．According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.（ ） A．meaning

C．combination of sounds

B．Sound D．Group

2．The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.（ ） A．more slowly than C．more rapidly than

B．As quickly as D．Not so quickly as

3．Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.（ ） A．use frequency C．origin

B．notion D．sound

4．Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT______.（ ） A．green revolution C．moon walk

B．fast food D．space shuttle

5．Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new ______ to meet the new need.

（ ）

A．form C．look

B．meaning D．pronunciation

6．Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American English “fall” means ______ in British English.（ ） A．four C．for

B．fell D．autumn

7．The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT ______.

（ ）

A．/t/ C．/p/

B．/g/ D．/k/

8．There are ______ free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.（ ） A．one C．three

B．two D．four

9．The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.（ ） A．works C．postwar

B．prewar D．bloody

10．30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through ______.

（ ）

A．compounding

B．affixation

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C．conversion D．shortening

11．The word “motel” is created by ______.（ ） A．compounding C．blending

B．clipping D．suffixation

12．“BBC” is formed in the way of ______.（ ） A．acronymy C．back-formation

B．clipping D．prefixation

13．The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT ______.（ ） A．grammatical meaning C．associative meaning

B．conceptual meaning D．literal meaning

14．By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.（ ） A．onomatopoeic C．semantic

B．morphological D．etymological

15．______ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.

（ ）

A．Reference C．Sense

B．Concept D．Motivation

16．Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of ______.

（ ）

A．word formation C．meaning change

B．word meaning D．Sense relations

17．When a word is first coined, it is always ______.（ ） A．semantic C．monosemic

B．onomatopoeic D．polysemic

18．The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas the first is archaic,

EXCEPT ______.（ ） A．ire/anger C．forlorn/distressed

B．rich/wealthy D．bliss/happiness

19．Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words were used in different

______ from what they have now in dictionaries.（ ） A．senses C．dialects

B．Forms D．Terms

20．The mode of ______ is well reflected in the word “picture”, which originally denoted mere “painting”, but now has

come to include “drawings” and even “photographs”（ ） A．extension C．narrowing

B．elevation D．degradation

21．In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the ______ sense of transfer.（ ）

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A．subjective C．sensational

B．objective D．physical

22．Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of context?（ ） A．Elimination of ambiguity. B．Indication of referents.

C．Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.

D．Provision of culture background for inferring word-meaning.

23．The sentence “I lost Betty?s picture.” is ambiguous due to ______.（ ） A．grammatical context C．antonymy

B．polysemy D．hyponymy

24．In the sentence “An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a sou?Wester usually brings rain.”,

the meaning of “sou?wester” can be inferred from the clue of ______.（ ） A．relevant details C．antonymy

B．synonymy D．hyponymy

25．The idiom “toss and turn” is a(n) ______ as far as rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.

（ ）

A．alliteration C．metonymy

B．metaphor D．rhyme

26．Which of the following is NOT one of the types of idioms?（ ） A．Sentence idioms. C．Clausal idioms.

B．Idioms adverbial in nature. D．Idioms nominal in nature.

27．The following are all variations of idioms, EXCEPT ______.（ ） A．replacement C．shortening

B．addition D．repetition

28．Generally speaking, a dictionary will cover the following content EXCEPT ______.（ ） A．spelling C．pronunciation

B．syntactical usage D．definition

29．As a general Chinese-English dictionary, ______ is the most complete and up-to-date, most elaborately treated one

（ ）

A．A Chinese-English Dictionary (1995)

B．Oxford Advanced Learner?s Dictionary of Current English with Chinese Translation C．A New English-Chinese Dictionary

D．Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese Translation 30．Collins COBUILD English Usage (1992), is a(n) ______ dictionary.（ ） A．unabridged C．specialized

B．desk D．encyclopedic

Ⅱ．Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of transfer; 2) rhetorical features of idioms; 3) types of vocabulary by notion; and 4) the function of affixes. (10%)

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