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全国2011年4月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. The development of English vocabulary can be divided into the following particular historical period EXCEPT ______.

( )

A. Old English

C. New English

B. Middle English

D. Modern English

2. The definition of a word comprises the following points ______ . ( )

(1) a minimal free form of a language

(2) a sound unity

(3) a unit of meaning

(4) a form that can function alone in a sentence

A. (1) and (2)

C. (2) (3) and (4)

B. (1) (2) and (3)

D. (1) (2) (3) and (4)

3. Words of the basic word stock can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and

affixes, e.g. foot is the father of football, footage and footprint. This demonstrates that one of the characteristics of the

words of the basic stock is ______ . ( )

A. productivity

C. stability

B. polysemy

D. collocability

4. The Indo-European language family is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and ______ .

( )

A. India

C. the West Asia

B. the Far East

D. America

5. In the early period of Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient Greek and ______ classics. This is

known in history as the Renaissance. ( )

A. India

C. Roman

B. German

D. Chinese

6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( )

A. Old English was a highly inflected language.

B. In early Middle English period, English, Latin and Celtic existed side by side.

C. The introduction of printing into England marked the beginning of modern English period.

D. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is creation of new words by means of

word-formation.

7. The smallest functioning unit in the composition of words is ______.( )

A. morpheme

C. root

B. affixes

D. stem

8. There is/are ______ monomorphemic word(s) in the following words: hot, dog, feet, matches.

( )

A. 1 B. 2

C. 3 D. 4

9. The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/s/in the following words EXCEPT ______.

(

A. packs B. bags

C. cheats D. ships

10. 30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English vocabulary are produced through ______ .( )

A. affixation B. clipping

C. compounding D. shortening

11. The formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class is called ______. ( )

A. prefixation B. suffixation

C. acronymy D. conversion

12. The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes is called ______. (

A. back-formation B. clipping

C. blending D. suffixation

13. ______ accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning. (

A. Sense B. Motivation

C. Concept D. Reference

14. By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to its origin.

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A. onomatopoeic B. morphological

C. semantic D. etymological

15. In English there are ______ types of motivation that concerns the relationship between the sign and meaning. (

A. 2 B. 3

C. 4 D. 5

16. What is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages? ( )

A. Suffixation. B. Variation.

C. Allomorph. D. Polysemy.

17. Red, scarlet, mauve, violet, lavender, pansy, black, purple, etc, make up the ______ field of ‘colours’. ( )

A. stylistic B. semantic

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