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1、全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题课程代码：00832I. 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. When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a _ group of letters printed or w
2、ritten horizontally across a piece of paper. （ ）A. small B. meaningfulC. vocal D. large2. _ belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words. （ ）A. Terminology B. JargonC. Slang D.
3、 Argot3. “Im sure that they will come today.”There are_content words in the above sentence. （ ）A. 2 B. 3C. 4 D. 54. Which of the following is one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （ ）A. Acronym. B. Blending.C. Elevation. D. Borrowing.5. Social, economic and poli
4、tical changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_. ( )A. kungfu B.TV dinnerC. fast food D. Watergate6. In modern times, _is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. （ ）A. semantic change B. borrowingC, expansion D. creation7. The plural morphme “-s” is realizd by/Iz/after the
5、 following sounds EXCEPT_.( )A. /s/ B. /g/c. /z/ D. /8. The word “idealistic” comprises _morphemes. （ ）A. 1 B. 2C. 3 D. 49. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT _.( )A. happier B. workerC. harder D. taller10. “Washing machine” is a word formed by_.（ ）A. prefixation B. compoundingC. c
6、onversion D. blending11. “TV” is a(n) _.（ ）A. initialism B. acronymC. derivative D. compound12. The prefix “mis-” in the word “mistrust” is a _prefix. （ ）A. negative B. reversativeC. pejorative D. locative13. Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of “word meaning”? （ ）A. Reference. B. Co
7、ncept.C. Sense. D. Pronunciation.14. Such synonymous pair as “die-pass away” has the same _but different stylistic values. （ ）A. reference B. conceptC. motivation D. style15. The word “airmail” is _motivated. （ ）A. onomatopoeically B. etymologicallyC. semantically D. morphologically16. Words are arb
8、itrary symbols with independent identities so far as their spelling and pronunciation is concerned. But _, all words are related in one way or another.( )A. linguistically B. semanticallyC. grammatically D. pragmatically17, _, the basic meaning of a word is the core of word-meaning called the centra
9、l meaning. （ ）A. Onomatopoeically B. DiachronicallyC. Synchronically D. Etymologically18. One important criterion to tell the fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is to see their_. （ ）A. ideology B. etymologyC. mythology D. methodology19. Vocabulary is the most _element of a langu
10、age as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. （ ）A. unbalanced B. unstableC. unhinged D. undoubted20. In Shakespeares well-known Hamlet, rival means “_”and jump means “just”. （ ）A. janitor B. partnerC. collector D. observer21. In the sentence “Just after two years he is quite a
11、grown boy now.” The word grown can be classified into _sense of transfer. （ ）A. physical B. objectiveC. sensational D. subjective22. In some cases, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is called _context. （ ）A. non-linguistic B. lexicalC. grammatical D. c
12、ultural23. The sentence “He is a hard businessman.” is ambiguous due to_. （ ）A. grammatical structure B. lexical contextC. homonymy D. polysemy24. The extra-linguistic context may extend to embrace the entire_. （ ）A. physical situation B. grammatical structureC. mental activity D. cultural backgroun
13、d25. Which of the following is NOT one respect of the rhetorical features of idioms? （ ）A. Phonetic manipulation. B. Lexical manipulation.C. Syntactical manipulation. D. Figures of speech.26. In nothing flat as an idiom is _in nature. （ ）A. verbal B. nominalC. adjectival D. adverbial27. The idiom “f
14、ailure is the mother of success” is a _ as far as figures of speech are concerned. （ ）A. simile B. metaphorC. metonymy D. personification28. Which of the following is NOT one of the three good general dictionaries mentioned in the textbook? ( )A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.B. Webster
15、s Third New International Dictionary.C. A Chinese-English Dictionary.D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary.29. Websters Third New International Dictionary is the best-known _dictionary. ( )A. unabridged B. deskC. pocket D. encyclopedic30. British dictionaries generally use_to mark the pronunciation.A. British Phonetic Alphabet B. American Phonetic AlphabetC. International Phonetic Alphabet D. W
