2010年4月英语词汇学自考试题

全国2010年4月自考
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