全国2008年4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 fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______. ( )
A. use frequency B. notion
C. productivity D. origin
2. Words like bear, nut, knocked out can be categorized as ______. ( )
A. terminology B. jargon
C. slang D. neologisms
3. Identify the word that is of Scandinavian origin among the following. ( )
A. Skirt B. Dress
C. Model D. Status
4. 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 vocabulary
C. 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. -ent
6.Shortening a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called ______. ( )
A. blending B. clipping
C. acronymy D. back-formation
7. Associative meaning of words comprises the following except ______. ( )
A. connotative meaning B. lexical meaning
C. affective meaning D. collocative meaning
8. 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 word with multiple meanings is used in an inadequate context, this word may create ______. ( )
A. semantic motivation B. degradation
C. ambiguity D. extension
11. Without ______, there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.
A. context B. semantic unity
C. structural stability D. stylistic feature
12. Idioms manifest such rhetorical features as the following except______. ( )
A. phonetic manipulation B. lexical manipulation
C. literary expressions D. figures of speech
13. According 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 nature
C. idioms verbal in nature D. idioms adverbial in nature
14. The main body for a dictionary is ______ of words. ( )
A. spellings B. pronunciations
C. definitions D. grammar
15. Readers can’t find pronunciation or meaning in ______. ( )
A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese Translation
B. The Encyclopedia Americana
C. Chamber’s Encyclopedic English Dictionary
D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary
II. 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, scarlet, 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 opposite
III. 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%)
A B
( )21. queer, odd A. onomatopoetically motivated
( )22. surplus value B. subordinate hyponymy
( )23. miaow C. specialized dictionary
( )24. CED D. Greek
( )25. hard disk, CPU etc. — computer E. polysemy
( )26. technology F. 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 place J. German
IV. 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 morphemes
43. collocative meaning
44. concatenation
45. grammatical context
VI. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below. (12%)
46. What is suffixation? Give an example to illustrate your point
47. What is the remarkable feature of Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English ?
48. Supply two examples to illustrate that the influx of borrowings has caused some words to
change in meaning.
VII. Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. ( 18 % )
49. Explain the meaning of the phrase “a laconic answer”, using the theory of motivation.
50. Study the following sentence: 1) pick out the idiom, 2) explain its origin, and 3) comment on
the use.
David’s head was in the tool-box, but his voice was heard saying, “Too many cooks, better let me.”
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