2010.4英語詞匯學(xué)試題

全國2010年4月高等教育自學(xué)考試
　　英語詞匯學(xué)試題
　　課程代碼：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
　?。?nbsp;    ） 31. appreciative meanings A. maltreat
　　（     ） 32. parent/child B. Jap/nigger
　?。?nbsp;    ） 33. pejorative prefixes C. tremble (not quiver) with fear
　　（     ） 34. man/woman D. famous/determined
　?。?nbsp;    ） 35. hyperactive/superfreeze E. extraordinary/telecommunication
　?。?nbsp;    ） 36. collocative meaning E prefixes of degree
　?。?nbsp;    ） 37. decompose/unwrap G. inflectional affixes
　　（     ） 38. pejorative meaning H. reversative prefixes
　?。?nbsp;    ） 39. radios/desks I. contradictory terms
　?。?nbsp;    ） 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