2008年4月英语词汇学真题和答案

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上全国2008年4月历年自考英语词汇学真题课程代码：00832I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)1. Words fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by _. （ ）A. use frequency B. notionC. productivity D. origin2. Words like bear, nut, knocked out can be categorized as _. （ ）A. terminology B. jargonC. slang D. neologisms3. Identify the word that is of Scandinavian origin among th

2、e following. （ ）A. Skirt B. DressC. Model D. Status4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ ）A. Old English was a highly inflected language.B. Reviving archaic or obsolete words also contribute to the growth of English vocabularyC. The word cloak is of French origin.D. Modern English is a synthetic language.5. The root of the word “antecedent” is _. （ ）A. ante- B. -ced-C. -dent D. -ent6.Shortening a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called _. （ ）

3、A. blending B. clippingC. acronymy D. back-formation7. Associative meaning of words comprises the following except _. （ ）A. connotative meaning B. lexical meaningC. affective meaning D. collocative meaning8. What is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages? （ ）A. Suffixation. B. Polysemy.C. Allomorph. D. Variation.9. Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?（ ）A. Deer. B. Cattle.C. Sheep. D. Bird.10. When a wo

4、rd with multiple meanings is used in an inadequate context, this word may create _. （ ）A. semantic motivation B. degradationC. ambiguity D. extension11. Without _, there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.A. context B. semantic unityC. structural stability D. stylistic feature12. Idioms manifest such rhetorical features as the following except_. （ ）A. phonetic manipulation B. lexical manipulationC. literary expressions D. figures of speech 13. A

5、ccording to its grammatical functions, idioms can be classified into five groups. The idiom “heart and soul” belongs to _. （ ）A. idioms nominal in nature B. idioms adjectival in natureC. idioms verbal in nature D. idioms adverbial in nature14. The main body for a dictionary is _ of words. （ ）A. spellings B. pronunciationsC. definitions D. grammar15. Readers cant find pronunciation or meaning in _. （ ）A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese TranslationB. The Encyclopedia Americ

6、anaC. Chambers Encyclopedic English DictionaryD. Collins COBUILD English Language DictionaryII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (10%)16. Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as _ morphemes.17. The chief function of _ is not to change the word class of the stem, but to change its meaning.18. “Pavement” in British English and “sidewalk” in American English have the same _.19. Red, scarl

7、et, mauve, violet, lavender, pansy, black, purple, etc, make up the _field of colours.20. Some words can have two different types of antonyms at the same time, one being _ and the other oppositeIII. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1 ) types of meanings;2) types of motivations; 3) types of dictionaries; 4) origins of English and 5) types of sense relations. (10%)AB( )21. queer, odd A. onomatopoetically motivated( )22. surplus value B. subordinate hyp

8、onymy( )23. miaow C. specialized dictionary( )24. CED D. Greek( )25. hard disk, CPU etc. computer E. polysemy( )26. technologyF. semantically motivated( )27. Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs G relative synonym( )28. The pen is mightier than the sword. H. conceptual meaning( )29. gay-joyous, brilliant and homosexual I. bilingual dictionary( )30. home/dwelling placeJ. GermanIV. Study the following words or expressions and identify 1) types of context; 2) types of word formation; 3) causes of meaning change; 4 ) types of bound morphemes underlined. (10%)31. boob-head-one who returns too often to jail ()32. ascendant()33. look out/look out()34. descend()35. telequiz()36. landlord (in English vs. in Chinese)()37. a coloured nail/a copper nail()38. tolerance()39. churl-bad people()40. stockholder()V. Define the following terms. (10%)41. creation (as a mode of vocabulary development)42. free morphemes43.

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