2010年7月英语词汇学自考试题

全国2010年7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. As defined in terms of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or combination of sounds which are made voluntarily with human ______ equipment.（      ）
A. visual                     B. vocal
C. physical                   D. mental
2. Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.（      ）
A. use frequency           B. notion
C. origin                 D. sound
3. ______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves. （      ）
A. Terminology           B. Archaisms
C. Slang                D. Jargon
4. Which of the following is NOT one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （      ）
A. Creation.                            B. Semantic changes.
C. Clipping.                            D. Borrowing.
5. Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.（      ）
A.TV dinner             B. earthrise
C. moon walk                  D. space shuttle
6. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into the Eastern set and the _______ set. （      ）
A. Western             B. African
C. American           D. Northern
7. The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/z/in the following words EXCEPT ______.（      ）
A. beds               B. bags
C. cheats              D. bottles
8. The word "prisoner" comprises ______ morphemes. （      ）
A. 1                      B. 2
C. 3               D. 4
9. The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.（      ）
A. reread                 B. prewar
C. bloody              D. harder
10. The prefix "over-" in the word "overweight" is a prefix of ______.（      ）
A. orientation and attitude            B. degree or size
C. time and order       D. number
11. The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes is called ______.（      ）
A. back-formation       B. acronymy
C. conversion          D. clipping
12. "Champagne", a common noun, comes from a ______.（      ）
A. name of a person                 B. name of a place
C. name of a book          D. tradename
13. ______ is the relationship between language and the world. （      ）
A. Reference           B. Concept
C. Sense              D. Motivation
14. Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______.（      ）
A. form               B. pronunciation
C. spelling              D. meaning
15. The word“______”is an onomatopoetically motivated word. （      ）
A. miaow              B. sword
C. laconic             D. airmail
16. In modern English, an overwhelming majority of words are ______.（      ）
A. original                B. initial
C. polysemous          D. periodical
17. ______, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison. （      ）
A. Synchronically       B. Diachronically
C. Etymologically       D. Onomatopoetically
18. Want, wish, like and desire are synonyms, but as far as intensity is concerned, ______ is the strongest of all. （      ）
A. wish                       B. like
C. want                     D. desire
19. There are five types of meaning changes and among which ______ are the most common.（      ）
A. degradation and elevation              B. transfer and extension
C. elevation and narrowing               D. extension and narrowing
20. Due to ______ reason, a word is retained for a name though the meaning has changed because the referent has changed. （      ）
A. psychological               B. historical
C. class                   D. linguistic
21. Among the following words only ______ is the word which originally had a specialized meaning and now has become generalized. （      ）
A. journal                     B. wife
C. accident                  D. dise