全国2009年7月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. Words may fall into native words and borrowed words by ______.（ ）
A. use frequency
B. notion
C. origin
D. sound

2. Which of the following words does NOT belong to jargon? （ ）
A. Orchestra.
B. Bottom line.
C. Ballpark figures.
D. Bargaining chips.

3. In the sentence "It is fun to play with children.", there are ______ content words. （ ）
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

4. Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.（ ）
A. open heart surgery
B. fast food
C. moon walk
D. space shuttle

5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, the Americans use "sick" for ______ in British English. （ ）
A. six
B. ailment
C. throwing up
D. ill

6. If we say that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of ______ endings. （ ）
A. leveled
B. short
C. long
D. paralleled

7. The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/s/in the following words EXCEPT ______. （ ）
A. packs
B. bags
C. cheats
D. ships

8. There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words: bird, man, red, turn.（ ）
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

9. The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______. （ ）
A. subsea
B. prewar
C. postwar
D. desks

10. The suffix "-tion" is a ______ suffix. （ ）
A. adjective
B. verb
C. adverb
D. noun

11. From the sentences "Hand in your papers." and "She papered the room green.", we can see such a means of word formation as ______. （ ）
A. affixation
B. compounding
C. conversion
D. acronymy

12. The word "beg" comes from the word "beggar". Such a way of creating a new word is called ______. （ ）
A. suffixation
B. clipping
C. blending
D. back-formation

13. "Pen" and "sword" in the sentence "The pen is mightier than the sword." are ______ motivated words. （ ）
A. semantically
B. etymologically
C. morphologically
D. onomatopoeically

14. "Tables, men, potatoes" have the same ______ meaning, for they have the same plural meaning. （ ）
A. lexical
B. grammatical
C. conceptual
D. associative

15. Stylistic features of words include the following EXCEPT ______. （ ）
A. formal
B. literary
C. argumentative
D. slang

17. Based on the degree of ______, homonyms fall into three classes: perfect homonyms, homographs and homophones. （ ）
A. intensity
B. property
C. similarity
D. variety

18. Complete synonyms are identical both in grammatical meaning and lexical meaning, including ______ and associative meanings. （ ）
A. conceptual
B. perceptual
C. eventual
D. actual

19. Narrowing of meaning, also called ______, is the opposite of widening meaning. （ ）
A. specialization
B. realization
C. evolution
D. creation

20. As far as transfer is concerned, the phrase "loud colours" falls into the category of transfer ______.（ ）
A. from concrete to abstract meanings
B. from abstract to concrete meanings
C. through association
D. of sensations

21. In the sentence "She said with an embarrassed laugh.", the word "embarrassed" can be classified into ______ sense of transfer. （ ）
A. subjective
B. objective
C. sensational
D. physical

22. Based on ______ context, we can determine the meaning of "do the flowers". （ ）
A. cultural
B. grammatical
C. lexical
D. situational

23. Physical situation or environment relating to the use of words is called ______ or non-linguistic context. （ ）
A. extra-linguistic
B. lexical
C. grammatical
D. syntactical

24. In the sentence "Many United Nations employees are polyglots. Mr. Mary, for example, speaks five languages.", the word "polyglot" is explained by ______ clue. （ ）
A. definition
B. example
C. synonymy
D. hyponymy

25. Which of the following is NOT one of the stylistic features of idioms? （ ）
A. Frozen style.
B. Slang.
C. Literary style.
D. Colloquialisms.

26. "Chop and change" is an idiom ______ in nature. （ ）
A. verbal
B. nominal
C. adjectival
D. adverbial

27. The change of idiom "the last straw" from the original form is ______.（ ）
A. replacement
B. dismembering
C. addition
D. shortening

28. Encyclopedic dicti

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