英语词汇学自考题-10
archaic(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
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Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that **pletes the statement and put the letter in the bracket.
1. We consider that the written form of a natural language is the written record of the ______ form.A. written                      B. practical  C. oral                          D. grammatical
2. ______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and **municate among themselves.A. Slang                      B. Argot  C. Jargon                        D. Archaism
3. Which of the following doesn't belong to the translation-loans?______A. Mother tongue.              B. Long time no see.  C. Black humour.                D. Status quo.
4. Which of the following is not included in the Germanic tribes?______A. Angles.                    B. Celtic.  C. Saxons.                      D. Jutes.
5. Which of the following is not true about Old English?______A. Users of Old English borrowed heavily from Latin and other languages.  B. Old English has a vocabulary of about 50000 to 60000.  C. Old English refers to the English language used from 450 to 1150.  D. Old English was a highly inflected language.
6. In modern times, ______ is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.A. creation  B. semantic change  C. borrowing  D. reviving archaic or obsolete words
7. In the word "contradiction", the morpheme "-diet" is a(an) ______.A. free root                    B. bound root  C. free morpheme              D. affix
8. Word formation excludes ______.A. affixation **pounding  B. conversion and shortening  C. chipping, acronymy and blending  D. repetition and alliteration
9. The primary function of suffixes is to ______.A. change the word-class of roots  B. chang
e the meaning of stems  C. change the grammatical function of stems  D. change the structure of roots
10. The following are all denominal suffixes except ______.A. -ful                        B. -wise  C. -less                      D. -like
11. The "house" in "the peasant housed him" belongs to the conversion ______.A. between noun and adjective B. between noun and verb  C. between verb and adjective D. none of the above
12. A word is **bination of form and ______.A. spelling                    B. writing  C. meaning                    D. denoting
13. Walkman is a ______ motivated word.A. onomatopoeically          B. morphologically  C. semantically                D. etymologically
14. Stylistic meaning refers to the features of ______ of words.A. formality                    B. affectiveness  C. appropriateness            D. part of speech
15. The problem of interrelation of the various meanings of the same word can be dealt with from ______ different angles.A. one                        B. two  C. three                      D. four
16. Of the types of homonyms, ______ constitute the largest number and are **mon.A. perfect homonyms        B. homophones  C. homographs                D. antonymy
17. ______ is contrary antonymy.A. "True" and "false"        B. "Rich" and "poor"  C. "Parent" and "child"        D. "Male" and "female"
18. Extension of meaning is known as ______.A. elevation                    B. generalization  C. transfer                    D. degradation
19. The semantic change of the word "girl" from "a young person of either sex" to "female young person" is called ______.A. extension                  B. narrowing  C. degradation                D. elevation
20. In the sentence "She said with an embarrassed laugh. ", the word "embarrassed" can b
e classified into ______ sense of transfer.A. subjective                  B. objective  C. sensational                  D. physical

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