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1、2011年 7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语词汇学 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. Grammarians insist that a word be a _ form that can function in a sentence. ( D )1.1-6A. sma
2、ll B. largeC. fixed D. free2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should _ that of the oral form. ( A )1.3-8A. agree with B. disagree withC. be the same asD. be different from3. _consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, ma
3、thematics, etc. ( A )1.5.1-13A. Terminology B. JargonC. Slang D. Argot4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_. ( C )2.3-30A. fast food B. TV dinnerC. Mao jackets D. Watergate5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English voc
4、abulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ _ ” in American English. ( D )2.4-32A. own B. letC. rent D. lend6. If we say that Old English was a language of _ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings. ( A )2.2.2-28A. full B. shortC. long D
5、. paralleled7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT _. ( D )3.2-38A. bottlesB. eggsC. zoos D. maps8. There is/are _ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection. ( B )3.3.1-39A. l B. 2C. 3 D. 49. The following words have inflecti
6、onal affixes EXCEPT _. ( B )3.3.2-41A. likes B. dislikeC. liking D. liked10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _. ( B )4-45A. affixation B. blendingC. compounding D. conversion11. Prefixes generally do not change the _ of the stem. ( C )4.1.1-46A. meaningB. formC.
7、word class D. pronunciation12. The word “dorm” is formed by _clipping. ( A )4.5-65A. back B. frontC. phrase D. front and back13. The word “reading-lamp” is _ motivated. ( B )5.2.2-84A. onomatopoeically B. morphologicallyC. semantically D. etymologically14. The synonymous pair of “askquestion” has th
8、e same_. ( D )5.1.2-83A. motivation B. valueC. function D. concept15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its _ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc. ( B )5.3.2-88A. grammatical B. connotativeC. stylistic D. collocative16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words i
9、s related to them in_.( A )6-95A. sense B. spellingC. morpheme D. root and stem17. _, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison. ( A )6.1.1-97A. SynchronicallyB. DiachronicallyC. EtymologicallyD. Onomatopoeically18. The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; sile
10、nce is golden” are _. ( A )6-131A. speech-silenceB. golden-silverC. speech-silver D. silence-golden19. In Shakespearean line Rats and mice and such small deer, deer obviously designates anima in general. Therefore deer is a typical example of _. ( C )7.1.2-137A. extension B. elevation C. narrowing D
11、. degradation20. Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to change in denotation from neutral to _ than it is for them to go the other way. ( D )7.1.4-139A. important B. agreeableC. respective D. pejorative21. Among the following words only“_ ” expresses the property of eleva
12、tion. ( C )7.1.3-138A. lust B. criticizeC. knight D. silly22. Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context? ( C )8.2-154A. Elimination of ambiguity. B. Indication for referents. C. Understanding of cultural background. D. Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning. 23. Which
13、 of the following is NOT a context clue? ( D )8.2.3-157A. Definition. B. Example. C. Synonymy. D. Sentence structure. 24. The sentence “The ball was attractive” is ambiguous due to_. ( C )8.2.1-155A. grammatical structureB. lexical contextC. homonymy D. polysemy25. Which of the following is one of t
14、he characteristics of idioms? ( A )9.1-162A. Semantic unity. B. Lexical manipulation. C. Phonetic unity. D. Structural variation. 26. Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?( B )9.3.2-169A. Stylistic features. B. Syntactical features. C. Rhetorical fea
15、tures. D. Occasional variations. 27. The idiom “bed of dust” is a _ as far as figures of speech are concerned. ( B )9.3.2-175A. simile B. metaphorC. metonymy D. personification28. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n) _ dictionary. ( B )10.1.3-187A. unabridged B. deskC. pocket D. encyclopedic29. When we choose a dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether
