全国高等教育自学考试
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．According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.（  　）
A．meaning    B．Sound
C．combination of sounds    D．Group
2．The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.（  　）
A．more slowly than    B．As quickly as
C．more rapidly than    D．Not so quickly as
3．Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.（  　）
A．use frequency    B．notion
C．origin    D．sound
4．Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT______.（  　）
A．green revolution    B．fast food
C．moon walk    D．space shuttle
5．Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new ______ to meet the new need.
（  　）
A．form    B．meaning
C．look    D．pronunciation
6．Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American English “fall” means ______ in British English.（  　）
A．four    B．fell
C．for    D．autumn
7．The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT ______.
（  　）
A．/t/    B．/g/
C．/p/    D．/k/
8．There are ______ free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.（  　）
A．one    B．two
C．three    D．four
9．The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.（  　）
A．works    B．prewar
C．postwar    D．bloody
10．30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through ______.
（  　）
A．compounding    B．affixation
C．conversion    D．shortening
11．The word “motel” is created by ______.（  　）
A．compounding    B．clipping
C．blending    D．suffixation
12．“BBC” is formed in the way of ______.（  　）
A．acronymy    B．clipping
C．back-formation    D．prefixation
13．The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT ______.（  　）
A．grammatical meaning    B．conceptual meaning
C．associative meaning    D．literal meaning
14．By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.（  　）
A．onomatopoeic    B．morphological
C．semantic    D．etymological
15．______ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.
（  　）archaic
A．Reference    B．Concept
C．Sense    D．Motivation
16．Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of ______.
（  　）
A．word formation    B．word meaning
C．meaning change    D．Sense relations
17．When a word is first coined, it is always ______.（  　）
A．semantic    B．onomatopoeic
C．monosemic    D．polysemic
18．The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas the first is archaic, EXCEPT ______.（  　）
A．ire/anger    B．rich/wealthy
C．forlorn/distressed    D．bliss/happiness
19．Shakespeare is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words were used in different ______ from what they have now in dictionaries.（  　）
A．senses    B．Forms
C．dialects    D．Terms
20．The mode of ______ is well reflected in the word “picture”, which originally denoted mere “painting”, but now has come to include “drawings” and even “photographs”（  　）
A．extension    B．elevation
C．narrowing    D．degradation
21．In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the ______ sense of transfer.（  　）
A．subjective    B．objective
C．sensational    D．physical
22．Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of context?（  　）
A．Elimination of ambiguity.
B．Indication of referents.
C．Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.
D．Provision of culture background for inferring word-meaning.
23．The sentence “I lost Betty’s picture.” is ambiguous due to ______.（  　）
A．grammatical context    B．polysemy
C．antonymy    D．hyponymy
24．In the sentence “An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a sou’Wester usually brings rain.”, the meaning of “sou’wester” can be inferred from the clue of ______.（  　）
A．relevant details    B．synonymy
C．antonymy    D．hyponymy
25．The idiom “toss and turn” is a(n) ______ as far as rhetorical features of idioms are concerned.
（  　）
A．alliteration    B．metaphor
C．metonymy    D．rhyme
26．Which of the following is NOT one of the types of idioms?（  　）
A．Sentence idioms.    B．Idioms adverbial in nature.
C．Clausal idioms.    D．Idioms nominal in nature.
27．The following are all variations of idioms, EXCEPT ______.（  　）
A．replacement    B．addition

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