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全国2011年7月自学考试英语词汇学试题
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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. Grammarians insist that
a word be a __________ form that can function in a
sentence.
( )
A. small
C. fixed
B. large
D. free
2. In the earliest
stage of English, the written form of a word
should ________ that of the oral form. ( )
A. agree with
C. be the same as
B.
disagree with
D. be different from
3.
____________consists of technical terms used in
particular disciplines and academic areas as in
medicine, mathematics,
etc. ( )
A.
Terminology
C. Slang
B. Jargon
D.
Argot
4. Social, economic and political
changes bring about such new words as the
followings EXCEPT_________. ( )
A. fast
food
C. Mao jackets
B. TV dinner
D.
Watergate
5. Reviving archaic words also
contributes to the growth of English vocabulary.
For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent
in
the thirteenth century, was replaced by “
__________ ” in American English. ( )
A.
own
C. rent
B. let
D. lend
6. If
we say that Old English was a language of
__________ endings, Middle English was one of
leveled endings.
( )
A. full
C.
long
B. short
D. paralleled
7. The
plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as z in the
following words EXCEPT ______________. ( )
A. bottles
C. zoos
B. eggs
D. maps
8. There isare _____________ free morphemic
word(s) in the following words: wind, man,
reddish, collection. ( )
A. l
C. 3
B. 2
D. 4
9. The following words have
inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________. (
)
A. likes B. dislike
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C. liking D. liked
10. The most
productive means of word-formation are the
following EXCEPT _______________.
( )
A. affixation
C. compounding
B.
blending
D. conversion
11. Prefixes
generally do not change the __________ of the
stem. ( )
A. meaning
C. word class
B. form
D. pronunciation
12. The word
“dorm” is formed by _________clipping. ( )
A. back
C. phrase
B. front
D.
front and back
13. The word “reading-lamp” is
_______ motivated. ( )
A.
onomatopoeically
C. semantically
B.
morphologically
D. etymologically
14. The
synonymous pair of “ask-question” has the
same___________. ( )
A. motivation
C. function
B. value
D. concept
15. In the sentence “East or west, home is
best”, “home” has its __________ meaning of
“family, safety, love”, etc.
( )
A.
grammatical
C. stylistic
B. connotative
D. collocative
16. Semantically, a word
which is related to other words is related to them
in____________。
( )
A. sense
C.
morpheme
B. spelling
D. root and stem
17. _____________, the derived meanings, no
matter how many, are secondary in comparison.
( )
A. Synchronically
C.
Etymologically
B. Diachronically
D.
Onomatopoeically
18. The antonyms used in the
proverb “Speech is silver; silence is golden” are
____________.
( )
A. speech-silence
C. speech-silver
B. golden-silver
D.
silence-golden
19. In Shakespearean line ‘Rats
and mice and such small deer’, ‘6deer’ obviously
designates ‘animal’ in general.
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Therefore ‘deer’ is a typical example
of _________. ( )
A. extension
C.
narrowing
B. elevation
D. degradation
20. Observation shows that it is much more
common for word meanings to change in denotation
from neutral to
____________ than it is for
them to go the other way. ( )
A.
important B. agreeable
C. respective D.
pejorative
21. Among the following words
only“________ ” expresses the property of
elevation. ( )
A. lust B. criticize
C. knight D. silly
22. Which of the
following is NOT one of the main functions of
context? ( )
A. Elimination of
ambiguity.
B. Indication for referents.
C. Understanding of cultural background.
D. Provision of clues for inferring word-
meaning.
23. Which of the following is
NOT a context clue? ( )
A. Definition.
B. Example.
C. Synonymy. D. Sentence
structure.
24. The sentence “The ball was
attractive” is ambiguous due to_______________. (
)
A. grammatical structure B. lexical context
C. homonymy D. polysemy
25. Which of the
following is one of the characteristics of idioms?
( )
A. Semantic unity. B. Lexical
manipulation.
C. Phonetic unity. D.
Structural variation.
26. Which of the
following is NOT one of the rhetoric
characteristics of idioms in general?(
A.
Stylistic features. B. Syntactical features.
C. Rhetorical features. D. Occasional
variations.
27. The idiom “bed of dust” is a
___________ as far as figures of speech are
concerned.
A. simile B. metaphor
C.
metonymy D. personification
28. Collins
COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n)
_____________ dictionary.
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)
(
(
)
)
A. unabridged
C. pocket
B. desk
D. encyclopedic
29. When we choose a
dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether
it is _____________.
( )
A.
monolingual or bilingual
C. early or late
B. general or specialized
D. unabridged or
abridged
30. Readers will usually find in a
general dictionary the following areas of
information of a word EXCEPT
_______________ .
( )
A. spelling
C. pronunciation
II. Complete the following statements
with proper words or expressions according to the
course book. ( 15% )
31. The jargon of
criminals is generally referred as _____________.
32. From the historical overview of the
English vocabulary, the language spoken from 1150
to 1500 is called
_____________ English.
33. The morpheme is the smallest
_____________unit in the composition of words.
34. The formation of new words by joining two
or more stems is called __________________.
35. Unlike conceptual meaning,
__________________ meaning is open-ended and
indeterminate.
36. From the _______________
point of view, polysemy is assumed to be the
result of growth and development of the
semantic structure of one and same word.
37. Changing in word ______________ has never
ceased since the language came into being and will
continue in the future.
38. Based on the
______________________ context, we can determine
the meaning of “do the flowers” as “ arrange the
flowers”.
39. The stylistic features of
idioms are ___________________, slang and literary
expressions.
40. The user-friendly features
of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English are
its clear grammar codes,
____________________
and language notes.
III. Define the following
terms. ( 15% )
41. free morphemes
42.
allomorphs
43. affixation
44. polysemy
45. linguistic context
IV. Answer the
following questions. Your answers should be clear
and short. Write your answers in the space given
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B. definition
D. difference
with its synonyms
below. ( 20% )
46. What is the difference between root and
stem?
47. What is collocative meaning of a
word? Please take “pretty” and “handsome” as an
example to illustrate your point.
48. By
the criterion of grammatical functions, idioms may
be classified into five groups. Name the five
groups and match
the following expressions
with them as their examples respectively.
“white elephant” “look into” “beyond the
pale”
“tooth and nail” “Never do things
by halves. ”
49. What contextual clues do you
often use to help you in guessing the meanings of
new words?
Demonstrate these clues with
examples.
V. Analyze and comment on the
following. Write your answers in the space given
below. ( 20% )
50. Analyze and comment on the
following TWO sentences to illustrate the
differences between blending and clipping.
The program will be telecast simultaneously to
nearly 150 cities.
It sounds much better in
stereo.
51. Analyze the following dialogue
and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in
italicized font.
A: “Why is Sunday the
strongest day?”
B: “Because all the others
are week days. ”
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