2010.4英语词汇学试题

全国2010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. When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a ____ group of letters printed or written horizontally across a piece of paper. （     ）
　　A. small B. meaningful
　　C. vocal D. large
　　2. ____ belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words. （     ）
　　A. Terminology B. Jargon
　　C. Slang D. Argot
　　3. “I'm sure that they will come today.”
　　There are____content words in the above sentence. （     ）
　　A. 2 B. 3
　　C. 4 D. 5
　　4. Which of the following is one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （     ）
　　A. Acronym. B. Blending.
　　C. Elevation. D. Borrowing.
　　5. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT____. (     )
　　A. kungfu B.TV dinner
　　C. fast food D. Watergate
　　6. In modern times, ____is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. （     ）
　　A. semantic change B. borrowing
　　C, expansion D. creation
　　7. The plural morphme “-s” is realizd by/Iz/after the following sounds EXCEPT____.
　　(     )
　　A. /s/ B. /g/
　　c. /z/ D. /ろ/
　　8. The word “idealistic” comprises ____morphemes. （     ）
　　A. 1 B. 2
　　C. 3 D. 4
　　9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____.(     )
　　A. happier B. worker
　　C. harder D. taller
　　10. “Washing machine” is a word formed by____.（     ）
　　A. prefixation B. compounding
　　C. conversion D. blending
　　11. “TV” is a(n) ____.（     ）
　　A. initialism B. acronym
　　C. derivative D. compound
　　12. The prefix “mis-” in the word “mistrust” is a ____prefix. （     ）
　　A. negative B. reversative
　　C. pejorative D. locative
　　13. Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of “word meaning”? （     ）
　　A. Reference. B. Concept.
　　C. Sense. D. Pronunciation.
　　14. Such synonymous pair as “die-pass away” has the same ____but different stylistic values.
　　（     ）
　　A. reference B. concept
　　C. motivation D. style
　　15. The word “airmail” is ____motivated. （     ）
　　A. onomatopoeically B. etymologically
　　C. semantically D. morphologically
　　16. Words are arbitrary symbols with independent identities so far as their spelling and pronunciation is concerned. But ____, all words are related in one way or another.(     )
　　A. linguistically B. semantically
　　C. grammatically D. pragmatically
　　17, ____, the basic meaning of a word is the core of word-meaning called the central meaning. （     ）
　　A. Onomatopoeically B. Diachronically
　　C. Synchronically D. Etymologically
　　18. One important criterion to tell the fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is to see their____. （     ）
　　A. ideology B. etymology
　　C. mythology D. methodology
　　19. Vocabulary is the most ____element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. （     ）
　　A. unbalanced B. unstable
　　C. unhinged D. undoubted
　　20. In Shakespeare's well-known Hamlet, rival means “____”and jump means “just”. （     ）
　　A. janitor B. partner
　　C. collector D. observer
　　21. In the sentence “Just after two years he is quite a grown boy now.” The word grown can be classified into ____sense of transfer. （     ）
　　A. physical B. objective
　　C. sensational D. subjective
　　22. In some cases, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is called ____context. （     ）
　　A. non-linguistic B. lexical
　　C. grammatical D. cultural
　　23. The sentence “He is a hard businessman.” is ambiguous due to____. （     ）
　　A. grammatical structure B. lexical context
　　C. homonymy D. polysemy
　　24. The extra-linguistic context may extend to embrace the entire____. （     ）
　　A. physical situation B. grammatical structure
　　C. mental activity D. cultural background
　　25. Which of the following is NOT one respect of the rhetorical features of idioms? （     ）
　　A. Phonetic manipulation. B. Lexical manipulation.
　　C. Syntactical manipulation. D. Figures of speech.
　　26. In nothing flat as an idiom is ____in nature. （     ）
　　A. verbal B. nominal
　　C. adjectival D. adverbial
　　27. The idiom “failure is the mother of success” is a ____ as far as figures of speech are concerned. （     ）
　　A. simile B. metaphor
　　C. metonymy D. personification
　　28. Which of the following is NOT one of the three good general dictionaries mentioned in the textbook? (     )
　　A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
　　B. Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
　　C. A Chinese-English Dictionary.
　　D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary.
　　29. Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the best-known ______dictionary. (     )
　　A. unabridged B. desk
　　C. pocket D. encyclopedic
　　30. British dictionaries generally use____to mark the pronunciation.
　　A. British Phonetic Alphabet B. American Phonetic Alphabet
　　C. International Phonetic Alphabet D. Webster's Phonetic Alphabet
　　II. Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of prefixes; 2) the functions of affixes; 3) types of antonyms; and 4) types of meanings. (10%)
　　A                              B
　　（     ） 31. appreciative meanings A. maltreat
　　（     ） 32. parent/child B. Jap/nigger
　　（     ） 33. pejorative prefixes C. tremble (not quiver) with fear
　　（     ） 34. man/woman D. famous/determined
　　（     ） 35. hyperactive/superfreeze E. extraordinary/telecommunication
　　（     ） 36. collocative meaning E prefixes of degree
　　（     ） 37. decompose/unwrap G. inflectional affixes
　　（     ） 38. pejorative meaning H. reversative prefixes
　　（     ） 39. radios/desks I. contradictory terms
　　（     ） 40. locative prefixes J. relative terms
　　llI. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (10%)
　　41. Grammarians insist that a word be a ____form that can function in a sentence.
　　42. In modern English, word endings were mostly lost with just a few exceptions because English has evolved from a synthetic language to the present ____language.
　　43. The morphemes can be grouped into free morphemes and ____morphemes.
　　44. New words which are created by adding affixes to stems a