7月自学词汇学真题及答案.doc

2011年 7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语词汇学 试题课程代码： 00832I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letterin the bracket. (30 %)1. Grammarians insist that a word be a form that canfunction in a sentence. ( D )1.1-6A. small B. largeC. fixed D. free2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should that of the oral form. ( A )1.3-8A. agree with B. disagree withC. be the same as D. be different from3. consists of technical terms used in particular disciplinesand academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. ( A )1.5.1-13A. Terminology B. JargonC. Slang D. Argot4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words asthe followings EXCEPT . ( C )2.3-30A. fast foodB. TV dinnerC. Mao jacketsD. Watergate5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of Englishvocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ ” in American English.( D )2.4-32A. own B. letC. rent D. lend6. If we say that Old English was a language of endings, MiddleEnglish was one of leveled endings. ( A )2.2.2-28A. full B. shortC. long D. paralleled7. The plural morpheme“ - s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following wordsEXCEPT . ( D )3.2-38A. bottles B. eggsC. zoos D. maps8. There is/are free morphemic word(s) in the followingwords: wind, man, reddish, collection. ( B )3.3.1-39A. l B. 2C. 3 D. 49. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT .( B )3.3.2-41A. likesB. dislikeC. liking D. liked10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT( B )4-45A. affixation B. blendingC. compounding D. conversion11. Prefixes generally do not change the of the stem.( C )4.1.1-46A. meaning B. formC. word class D. pronunciation12. The word “dorm” is formed by clipping. ( A )4.5-65A. back B. frontC. phrase D. front and back13. The word “reading - lamp” is motivated. ( B )5.2.2-84A. onomatopoeically B. morphologicallyC. semantically D. etymologically14. The syno nymous pair of “ ask－question ” has the same .( D )5.1.2-83A. motivation B. valueC. functionD. concept15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best ”, “home” has its meaning of “family, safety, love ”, etc. ( B )5.3.2-88A. grammatical B. connotativeC. stylistic D. collocative16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to them in .( A )6-95A. sense B. spellingC. morpheme D. root and stem17. , the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondaryin comparison.( A )6.1.1-97A. Synchronically B. DiachronicallyC. Etymologically D. Onomatopoeically18. The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; silence isgolden ” are .( A )6-131A. speech-silence B. golden-silverC. speech-silver D. silence-golden19. In Shakespearean line ‘Rats and mice and such small ‘deer ' ,‘deer ' obviously designates ‘anima' in general. Therefore ‘deer 'is a typical example of . ( C )7.1.2-137A. extension B. elevationC. narrowing D. degradation20. Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings tochange in denotation from neutral to than it is for them togo the other way. ( D )7.1.4-139A. important B. agreeableC. respective D. pejorative21. Among the following words only “ ” expresses the propertyof elevation. ( C )7.1.3-138A. lust B. criticizeC. knight D. silly22. Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context?( C )8.2-154A. Elimination of ambiguity.B. Indication for referents.C. Understanding of cultural background.D. Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.D )8.2.3-15723. 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 dueto . ( C )8.2.1-155A. grammatical structure B. lexical contextC. homonymy D. polysemy25. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms?( A )9.1-162A. Semantic unity. B. Lexical manipulation.C. Phonetic unity. D. Structural variation.26. Which of the following is NOTo ne of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?( B )9.3.2-169A. Stylistic features. B. Syntactical features.C. Rhetorical features. D. Occasional variations.as far as figures of speech27. The idiom “bed of dust” is a are concerned.( B )9.3.2-175A. simile B. metaphorC. metonymy D. personification28. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n) dictionary.( B )10.1.3-187A. unabridged B. deskC. pocket D. encyclopedic29. When we choose a dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether it is .( D )10.2.1-188A. monolingual or bilingual B. general or specializedC. early or late D. unabridged or abridged30. Readers will usually find in a general diction。