2009年7月高等教育自学考试英语《词汇学》试题

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　　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

　　16. The word ______ is an illustrative example of concatenation. ( )

　　A. neck                                 B. board

　　C. candidate                          D. harvest

　　17. Based on the degree of ______, homonyms fall into three classes: perfect homonyms, homographs and homophones. ( )

　　A. intensity                         B. property

　　C. similarity                        D. variety