全国自学考试英语词汇学试题
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“Woman” becomes “Frau” in German, “femme” in French and “fùnǔ” in Chinese. This example shows thatin different languages the same concept can be represented by different ______． A sounds B forms C unities D meanings
2.The following words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us EXCEPT ______． A fire B hot C photoscanning D sister
3.Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling.Which of the following words comes from Chinese? A Bazaar. B Kowtow. C Rajah. D Blitzkrieg.
4.The IndoEuropean language family is made up of the languages of the following EXCEPT ______．
A Europe B the Far East C India D the Near East
5.Which of the following is NOT one of the main sources of new words in the presentday English vocabulary?
A The rapid development of modern science and technology. B Social, economic and political changes. C The invasion of foreign countries.
D The influence of other cultures and languages.
6.Modern English vocabulary develops through the following channels EXCEPT ______.
A creation B borrowing C semantic change D lexical change
7.How many monomorphemic words are there in the following words? cats boss work improper tried
A 1. B 2. C 3. D 4.
8.Among the following words, “______” does NOT have inflectional affixes. A liked B children’s C happier D it’s 9.Which of the following words does NOT have suffixes? A Northward. B Widen. C Happy. D Worker.
10.Among the following words, “______ ” contains a negative prefix. A amoral B decompose C antiwar D foretell
11.From the viewpoint of word formation, the word “smog” is a ______. A compound B conversion C clipping D blending 12.Which of the following is partially converted?
A A white. B A drunk. C the poor D Finals.
13.One can figure out the meaning of “airmail” to be “mail by air” by its ______.
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A onomatopoeic motivation B morphological motivation C semantic motivation D etymological motivation
14.When a reader comes across the word “home” in his reading, the word may remind him of his family, friends, warmth, safety, etc. ” In this sense, the word “home” conveys ______.
A connotative meaning B stylistic meaning C affective meaning D collocative meaning 15.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A Grammatical meaning refers to the part of speech, tenses of verbs and stylistic features of words.
B Unlike conceptual meaning, associative meaning is unstable and indeterminate. C Affective meaning indicates the listener’s attitude towards the person or thing in question.
D Collocation cannot affect the meaning of words.
16.Words that are identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning are called ______.
A perfect homonyms B homographs C homophones D homonyms
17.The differences between synonyms exist in the following areas EXCEPT ______.
A denotation B connotation C reference D application 18.“Apple, pear, peach, orange, lemon, etc.” make up the ______ of “fruit. A synonyms B homonyms C superordinate term D semantic field 19.______ of meaning is a process by which a word that originally had a specialized meaning has now become generalized.
A Degradation B Elevation C Extension D Specilization
20.Which of the following is NOT one of the extralinguistic factors that cause changes in meaning?
A Cultural reason. B Historical reason C Class reason. D Psychological reason. 21.The word “minister” originally meant“a servant”, but now has changed to“a head of a ministry”. This process of meaning change is called ______. A extension B elevation C degradation D specialization 22.In grammatical context, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the ______in which it occurs.
A structure B sentence C phrase D clause
23.There is an ambiguity in the sentence “He is a hard businessman” due to ______.
A polysemy B homonymy C synonymy D antonymy
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24.Which of the following is NOT one of the context clues? A Definition. B Polysemy. C Synonymy. D Antonymy. 25.Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms? A The part of speech of each element in an idiom is very important. B The constituents of idioms can’t be replaced. C The word order in an idiom can’t be changed. D An idiom functions as one word.
26.Idioms nominal in nature have a(n) ______ as the key word in each and function as a noun in sentences.
A verb B adjective C preposition D noun
27.Lexical manipulation is one aspect of the rhetorical features of idioms. The following EXCEPT ______ belong to lexical manipulation. A alliteration B reiteration C repetition D juxtaposition
28.Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition (1980), is among the bestknown British ______ dictionaries.
A unabridged B desk C pocket D bilingual
29.Generally, a dictionary covers the following contents EXCEPT ______. A spelling B pronunciation C definition D syntactical rules
30.Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987) has some unique features such as definition, extra column and ______.
A pronunciation B grammar codes C usage examples D language codes
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A word is a ______ free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. 32.
In Old English period, the introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary. It brought many new ideas and customs, and also many ______ terms such as “candle, altar, amen”. 33.
A ______ is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. 34.
“Exam” is the shortened form of “examination” by back clipping. Then “quake” is used to mean “earthquake” by ______ clipping.
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