全国2008年7月高等教育自学考试

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. Which of the following words does NOT belong to terminology? ( ) A. Penicillin. C. Symphony.

B. Algebra. D. Knife.

2. In the sentence “I like to see a movie.”, there are ________ functional words. ( ) A.2 C.4

B.3 D.5

3. Of the characteristics listed for the basic word stock, the most important is ________. ( ) A. all national character C. polysemy

B. productivity D. collocability

4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the following EXCEPT ________. ( ) A. fast food C. tahini

B. TV dinner D. Watergate

5. The prehistoric ________ parent language is thought to be a highly inflected language, which English originated from. ( ) A. Prussian C. Czech

B. Indo-European D. Russian

6. The surviving languages accordingly fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into the ________ set and the Western set. ( ) A. Eastern C. American

B. African D. Northern

7. The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /z/ after the following sounds EXCEPT ________.

( )

A./z/ C./d/

B./g/ D./b/

8. The word “recollection” comprises ________ morphemes. ( ) A.1 C.3

B.2 D.4

9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ________. ( ) A. works C. working

B. worker D. worked

10. “Dis-” in the word “disloyal” is a ________ prefix. ( ) A. negative C. pejorative

B. reversative D. locative

11. The word “AIDS” is a(n) ________. ( ) A. initialism C. derivative

B. acronym D. compound

12. The word “smog” is created by blending, with the structure of ________. ( ) A. head + tail C. head + word

B. head + head D. word + tail

13. So far as stylistic meaning is concerned, “residence” is ________. ( ) A. neutral C. colloquial

B. informal D. formal

14. Words which are used to show the attitude of approval are ________. ( ) A. appreciative C. connotative

B. pejorative D. collocative

15. “Pavement” in British English and “sidewalk” in American English have the same ________.

( )

A. motivation C. sense

B. collocation D. connotation

16. A common feature peculiar to all natural languages is ________. ( ) A. homonymy C. monosemy

B. hyponymy D. polysemy

17. In both CCELD and LDCE, the most frequently used meaning of the word “gay” is ________.

( )

A. joyous and lively, merry, happy C. given to social life and pleasure

B. homosexual D. bright, brilliant

18. All the following words can be used as an antonym to the word “clear” EXCEPT ________.

( )

A. dirty C. guilty

B. fussy D. ambiguous

19. The change of word meaning is brought about by the following internal factors EXCEPT ________. ( ) A. influx of borrowing C. psychological factors

B. analogy D. shortening

20. A good example of ________ is the word “manuscript”, which now means “writing by hand or typed with a type-writer or a word-processor”, but its original meaning was “handwriting” only.( ) A. degradation C. narrowing

B. elevation D. extension

21. In the sentence “Never run towards a dangerous animal.”, the word “dangerous” is used in the ________ sense of transfer. ( ) A. subjective C. sensational

B. objective D. physical

22. The sentence “They saw her duck.” is ambiguous due to ________. ( ) A. grammatical context C. antonymy

B. lexical context D. hyponymy

23. The following are types of context EXCEPT ________. ( ) A. linguistic context C. syntactical context

B. non-linguistic context D. extra-linguistic context

24. In the sentence “The village had most of the usual amenities: a pub, a library, a post office, a village hall, a medical centre, and a school.” The meaning of amenity can be inferred from the clue of ________. ( ) A. relevant details C. antonymy

B. word structure D. hyponymy