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. B. Algebra.
C. Symphony. D. Knife.
2. In the sentence “I like to see a movie.”, there are ________ functional words. ( ) A.2 B.3 C.4 D.5
3. Of the characteristics listed for the basic word stock, the most important is ________. ( )
A. all national character B. productivity
C. polysemy D. collocability
4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the following EXCEPT ________. ( )
A. fast food B. TV dinner
C. tahini D. Watergate
5. The prehistoric ________ parent language is thought to be a highly inflected language, which English originated from. ( )
A. Prussian
B. Indo-European
C. Czech 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 B. African
C. American D. Northern
7. The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /z/ after the following sounds EXCEPT ________. ( )
A./z/ B./g/
C./d/ D./b/
8. The word “recollection” comprises ________ morphemes. ( ) A.1 B.2 C.3 D.4
9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ________. ( )
A. works B. worker
C. working D. worked
10. “Dis-” in the word “disloyal” is a ________ prefix. ( )
A. negative B. reversative
C. pejorative D. locative
11. The word “AIDS” is a(n) ________. ( )
A. initialism B. acronym
C. derivative D. compound
12. The word “smog” is created by blending, with the structure of ________. ( )
A. head + tail B. head + head
C. head + word D. word + tail
13. So far as stylistic meaning is concerned, “residence” is ________. ( )
A. neutral B. informal
C. colloquial D. formal
14. Words which are used to show the attitude of approval are ________. ( )
A. appreciative B. pejorative
C. connotative D. collocative
15. “Pavement” in British English and “sidewalk” in American English have the same ________. ( )
A. motivation B. collocation
C. sense
D. connotation