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1、自考英语词汇学试题全国2009年4月自考英语词汇学试题课程代码：00832Each 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%）1According to semanticists, a word is a unit of _.（ ）Ameaning;BsoundCcombination of sounds;Dgroup2The pro
2、nunciation has changed _ spelling over the years.（ ）Amore slowly than ;Bas quickly asCmore rapidly than ;Dnot so quickly as 3Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by _.（ ）Ause frequency ;BnotionCorigin;Dsound4Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as
3、the following EXCEPT_.（ ）Agreen revolution;Bfast foodCmoon walk ;Dspace shuttle5Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new _ to meet the new need.（ ）Aform ;BmeaningClook;Dpronunciation6Reviving archaic words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, in American E
4、nglish “fall” means _ in British English.（ ）Afour;BfellCfor;Dautumn7The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT _.（ ）A/t/;B/g/C/p/;D/k/8There are _ free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection.（ ）Aone;BtwoCthree;Dfour9The following words have der
5、ivational affixes EXCEPT _.（ ）Aworks;BprewarCpostwar;Dbloody1030% to 40% of the total number of new words in English are produced through _.（ ）Acompounding;BaffixationCconversion;Dshortening11The word “motel” is created by _.（ ）Acompounding;BclippingCblending;Dsuffixation12“BBC” is formed in the way
6、 of _.（ ）Aacronymy;BclippingCback-formation;Dprefixation13The types of meanings include the following EXCEPT _.（ ）Agrammatical meaning;Bconceptual meaningCassociative meaning;Dliteral meaning14By _ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.（ ）Aonomatopoeic;Bmorphologica
7、lCsemantic;Detymological15_ is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.（ ）AReference;BConceptCSense;DMotivation16Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of _.（ ）Aword formation;Bword meaningCmeaning change;Dsense relat
8、ions 17When a word is first coined, it is always _.（ ）Asemantic;BonomatopoeicCmonosemic;Dpolysemic18The following are all synonymous pairs, but in each the second is standard in usage whereas the first is archaic, EXCEPT _.（ ）Aire/anger;Brich/wealthyCforlorn/distressed;Dbliss/happiness19Shakespeare
9、is difficult to understand than contemporary writings because many of his words were used in different _ from what they have now in dictionaries.（ ）Asenses;BformsCdialects;Dterms20The mode of _ is well reflected in the word “picture”, which originally denoted mere “painting”, but now has come to inc
10、lude “drawings” and even “photographs”（ ）Aextension;BelevationCnarrowing;Ddegradation21In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the _ sense of transfer.（ ）Asubjective;BobjectiveCsensational;Dphysical22Which of the following is NOT one
11、 of the roles of context?（ ）AElimination of ambiguity. BIndication of referents.CProvision of clues for inferring word-meaning.DProvision of culture background for inferring word-meaning.23The sentence “I lost Bettys picture.” is ambiguous due to _.（ ）Agrammatical context;BpolysemyCantonymy;Dhyponym
12、y24In the sentence “An east or north-east wind brings cold dry weather to England, but a souWester usually brings rain.”, the meaning of “souwester” can be inferred from the clue of _.（ ）Arelevant details;BsynonymyCantonymy;Dhyponymy25The idiom “toss and turn” is a(n) _ as far as rhetorical features
13、 of idioms are concerned.（ ）Aalliteration;BmetaphorCmetonymy;Drhyme26Which of the following is NOT one of the types of idioms?（ ）ASentence idioms.;BIdioms adverbial in nature.CClausal idioms.;DIdioms nominal in nature.27The following are all variations of idioms, EXCEPT _.（ ）Areplacement;BadditionCs
14、hortening;Drepetition28Generally speaking, a dictionary will cover the following content EXCEPT _.（ ）Aspelling;Bsyntactical usageCpronunciation;Ddefinition29As a general Chinese-English dictionary, _ is the most complete and up-to-date, most elaborately treated one（ ）AA Chinese-English Dictionary (1
15、995)BOxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English with Chinese TranslationCA New English-Chinese DictionaryDLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English with Chinese Translation30Collins COBUILD English Usage (1992), is a(n) _ dictionary.（ ）Aunabridged;BdeskCspecialized;DencyclopedicMatch the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of transfer; 2) rhetorical features of idioms; 3) types of vocabulary by notion; and 4) the function of affixes. (10%)A; B（
