2021年4月全国自考《英语词汇学:00832》试题和答案
全国2021年4月高等教育自学考试
《英语词汇学》试题和答案
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. Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us. Which of the following words is related to the natural phenomena?
A. Father B. Fire C. Evil D. Old
2. The differences between sound and form are due to the following EXCEPT .
A. the fact of more phonemes than letters in English B. stabilization of spelling by printing C. influence of the work of scribes D. innovations made by linguists
3. There are functional words in the following sentence: It is fun to play with children.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
4. The surviving language fall into eight principal groups. Blato-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Albanian belong to the-------- set. A. Eastern B. Southern C. Western D. Northern
5. With the growth of------, British tentacles began stretching out to every corner of the globe, thus enabling English to absorb words from all major language of the world.
A. civilization B. revolution C. colonization D. industrialization
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. English is more closely related to German than French
B. Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
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C. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from latin and Scandinavian.
D. Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little change in word endings.
7. The word “ recollection” comprises----------- morphem s(s) A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
8. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT--------------- A. happier B. worker C. harder D. taller
9. Which of the following words is a root?
A. International B. Nation C. National D. Internationalists
10. The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on---------- A. borrowing B. sematic change C. word-formation D. reviving archaic words
11. The word” brainstorming” belongs to------------ A. adjective compounds B. noun compounds C. verb compounds D. adverb compounds
12. ---------- does not generally change the word-class of the stem but only modifies its meaning.
A. Prefixation B. Suffixation C. Affixation D. Derivation
13. A word is the combination of form and ---------. A. spelling B. pronunciation C. meaning D. sound
14. ------------ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human
mind.
A. Reference B. Concept C. Sense D. Motivationarchaic
15. The meaning given in the dictionary and forming the core of word-meaning is-------.
A. grammatical meaning B. lexical meaning C. conceptual meaning D. associative meaning
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16. The opposite of semantic elevation in meaning change is called----------- A. derivation B. deterioration C. purification D. pejoration
17. One of the interesting features about a language is that there are a great many more----------than--------- in it.
A. hyponyms… homonyms B. homonyms…. hyponyms C. synonyms… antonyms D. antonyms……… synonyms
18. Relative synonyms also called----------- are similar or nearly the same in denotation, but embrace different degree of a given quality. A. close- synonyms B. respondent- synonyms C. near- synonyms D. dependent- synonyms
19. Angel, martyr and paradise have their meaning---------- because of the influence of Christianity.
A. elevated B. degraded C. narrowed D. extended
20. Word- meaning changes by modes of extension, narrowing, degradation, elevation and --------
A. sense B. reference C. association D. transfer
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