00832英语词汇学2015年04月真题及答案

全国2015年4月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码：00832

本试卷满分100分，考试时间150分钟.

考生答题注意事项：

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2.第一部分为选择题。必须对应试卷上的题号使用28铅笔将“答题卡”的相应代码涂黑。

3.第二部分为非选择题。必须注明大、小题号，使用0．5毫米黑色字迹签字笔作答。

4.合理安排答题空间。超出答题区域无效。

第一部分选择题

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the

statement and blacken the corresponding letter A,B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(30%)

of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of the basic word stock?

national character.

C. Stability.

B. Validity.

D. Productivity.

following are the translation-loans EXCEPT____.

time no see.

C. Mother tongue. D. Bazaar.

differences between sound and form are NOT due to____.

fact of more phonemes than letters in English

ization of spelling by printing

tions made by linguists

nce of the work of scribes

language used between 450 and____is called Old English.

A.850

C.1500

B.1150

D. 1700

B. Masterpiece.

of the following is NOT one of the main sources of English new words?

borrowing of Latin words into English.

, economic and political changes.

influence of other cultures and language.

rapid development of modern science and technology.

of the following words does NOT belong to the words of Scandinavian origin?

A. Skirt.

C. Roast.

B. Skill.

D. Birth

word “denaturalization” can be broken down into “de-”，“nature”，“-al”，“-ize”，“-ation”, each having meaning of its

own. These minimal meaningful units are known as____.

A. morphemes

C. root

B. allomorphs

D. stem

of the following parts is the root of the word “internationalists”？

A. inter

C.-ist

D.-tion

of the following words is an example of free morphemes?

A. Bored.

C. Worker.

.

.

of the following statements is NOT true?

ation is the formation of new words by adding suffixes to stems.

es do not generally change the word-class of the stem.

es only modify the meaning of the stem.

chief function of prefixes is to change meanings of the stems.

word that contains a prefix of degree is____.

A. abnormal

r

erstand

ight

12.“A hot dog” is by no means a dog that is hot, but a typical American sausage in between two pieces of bread. This

example illustrates the____features of compounds.

A. phonetic

stic

ic

tical

13.“Many” and “much” both have the same concept, but collocate with different words，such as “much time, much money”，

but “many books, many people”，not vice versa. This example illustrates____.

t is beyond language

t is the result of human cognition

t is universal to all men alike regardless of culture, race, language and so on

in the same language, the same concept can be expressed in different words

we use the “foot of the mountain”，we are comparing the lower part of the mountain to the foot of a human being.

In this sense, the word “foot” conveys____.

A. onomatopoeic motivation

C. semantic motivation

B. morphological motivation

D. etymological motivation

group of words which has the same grammatical meaning is “____”.

A. forget, forgets, forgot

C. sit, sitting, sat

B. tables, men, people

D. fast, quick, quickly

are arbitrary symbols and are____identities so far as their outer facet — spelling and pronunciation, is concerned.

A. independent

C. stable

B. reliable

D. unsteady

the diachronic point of view, ____ is assumed to be the result of growth and development of the semantic structure

of one and same word.

A. homonymy

C. synonymy

B. polysemy

D. hy pony my

18.“Dear” and “deer” are words identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning. They are____.

A. perfect homonyms

C. homophones

B. homographs

D. hyponyms

of the following is NOT one of the types of changes in word-meaning?

A. Extension.

C. Elevation.

B. Degradation.

D. Reduction.

a common word is turned into a proper noun, the meaning is____accordingly such as “the City”，, which means

the “business centre of London”.

A. generalized

C. extended

ed

ed

extra-linguistic factors that cause changes in word-meaning include the following EXCEPT____.

A. historical reason

C. geographic reason

B. psychological reason

D. class reason

l context refers to the cases in which the meaning of a word is affected and defined by the____.

A. neighbouring words

C. cultural background

B. sentence structure

D. non-linguistic situation

a word with multiple meanings is used in inadequate context, it creates____.

A. irrelevance

C. disconnection

ity

tion

the sentence 6in spite of fact that the fishermen were wearing sou' westers, the storm was so heavy that they were wet

through", the context clue used is____.

A. word structure

C. definition

e

nt detail

of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms?

A. Structural variation.

C. Phonetic unity.

idiom “tooth and nail” is a(n)____.

A. idiom verbal in nature

C. sentence idiom

B. idiom nominal in nature

D. idiom adverbial in nature

B. Lexical manipulation.

D. Semantic unity.

idiom “earn one’s bread” is a____as far as figures of speech are concerned.

A. synecdoche or

C. metonymy ification

r fs New Dictionary of Synonyms (1978) is a(n)____dictionary.

A. unabridged

C. specialized

opedic

h dictionaries generally use____to mark the pronunciation.

A. British Phonetic Alphabet

C. International Phonetic Alphabet

B. American Phonetic Alphabet

D. Webster’s Phonetic Alphabet

n Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDCE) New Edition (1987) was noted for the following aspects

EXCEPT____.

use of extra column

simple and clear definitions

wide coverage of new words, new meanings and new usages

meticulous and complete grammatical information

非选择题部分

注意事项：

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Ⅱ.Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.(15%)

taken over from foreign languages are known as borrowed words or____words.

the historical overview of the English vocabulary, the Norman conquest started a continual flow of____words into

English.

morphemes are____of other morphemes. They have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as free

grammatical units in sentences.

34.“Exam” is the shortened form of “examination” by back clipping. Then “plane” is used to mean “aeroplane”

by____clipping

word meaning is made up of____meaning and grammatical meaning.

my is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages, but when a word is first coined, it is always____.

process by which words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory

sense is called____.

term “trade union” means differently in western countries and in China, which shows that the____context may also

affect the word meaning.

variation in the idiom “Jack of all trades” from the original form “Jack of all trades and master of none” is____.

a general Chinese-English dictionary, A Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition) (CED) (1995) is the

most____and up-to-date, most elaborately treated one.

Ⅲ．Define the following terms.(15%)