shipto英语试卷二十一

2021年1月22日发(作者：上纲上线)

2012
年
7
月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码：
10059
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. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that
would best complete the statement. (30%, 2 points for each)
1. Which of the following statement about the classification of words is NOT correct? (





)
A. basic word stock and non-basic vocabulary by use frequency
B. content words and functional words by notion
C. native words and borrowed words by origin
D. active words and passive words by formation
2.
Content
words
denote
clear
notions
which
including
the
following
except
____________.(





)
A. nouns and verbs

C. articles and prepositions

B. adverbs and adjectives

D. pronouns and numerals
3.
English
language
belongs
to
the
Indo-European
language
family
which
is
made
up
of
the
languages of ____________.(





)
A. the Middle East

C. Europe

B. the Near East

D. India
4. In the word “reactionist”, which are bound morphemes except ____________.(





)

A. re

C. ist

B. ion

D. all of the above
5. Which of the following underlined affixes is NOT inflectional affix? (





)
A. desk
s


C. hard
er


B.
pre
war

D. go
es

6. In the word “untouchable”: “untouch” is a(n) ____________. (





)


A. root

C. base

B. stem

D. affix

(





)
A. solid compound


7. There are three kinds of compounds. The word “air
B. hyphenated compound

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C. open compound

D. none of the above
8. Which of the following belongs to the word formation of acronym? (





)

A. TOFEL

C. WTO

B. BBC

D. CEO

9. There are fo
ur common types of clipping. The word “dorm” is a ____________ word.(





)

A. front clipping

C. front and back clipping

B. back clipping
D. phrase clipping

10. Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning. There
are
four
types
of
motivations.
The
word
“mouth”
in
the
phrase
“the
mouth
of
the
river”
is
____________.(





)
A. onomatopoeically motivated

C. semantically motivated

B. morphologically motivated
D. etymologically motivated

11. The four major modes of semantic change are ____________. (





)
A. extension, narrowing, elevation and degradation
B. extension, generalization, elevation and degradation
C. extension, narrowing, specialization and degradation
D. extension, elevation, amelioration and degradation

12. In the following sentence, choose the best to match the meaning of “womanly”.

“She would
know he was alive and she would simply make waiting
womanly

and rational.” (





)


A. sensitively

C. jealously

B. patiently


D. attractively
13. “We ca
n hear their
gay

laughter.” What does “gay” mean in the sentence? (





)


A. cheerful

C. thoughtless

B. homosexual


D. brilliant
14. The use of one name for that of another associated with it is rhetorically called ____________.

(





)
A. synecdoche

C. substitution

B. metonymy

D. metaphor

15.
In
terms
of
____________
dictionary
can
be
divided
into
monolingual
dictionary,
bilingual
dictionary and multilingual dictionary. (





)
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