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2008年4月高等教育自学考试·英语词汇学试题
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全国20084月高等教育自学考试·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. Words fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by _________. ( )

A. use frequency

B. notion

C. productivity

D. origin

2. Words like bear, nut, knocked out can be categorized as _________. ( )

A. terminology

B. jargon

C. slang

D. neologisms

3. Identify the word that is of Scandinavian origin among the following. ( )

A. Skirt

B. Dress

C. Model

D. Status

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

A. Old English was a highly inflected language.

B. Reviving archaic or obsolete words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary

C. The word cloak is of French origin.

D. Modern English is a synthetic language.

5. The root of the word antecedent is _________. ( )

A. ante-

B. -ced-

C. -dent

D. -ent

6. Shortening a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called _________. ( )

A. blending

B. clipping

C. acronymy

D. back-formation

7. Associative meaning of words comprises the following except _________. ( )

A. connotative meaning

B. lexical meaning

C. affective meaning

D. collocative meaning

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

A. Suffixation.

B. Polysemy.

C. Allomorph.

D. Variation.

9. Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?( )

A. Deer.

B. Cattle.

C. Sheep.

D. Bird.

10. When a word with multiple meanings is used in an inadequate context, this word may create _________. ( )

A. semantic motivation

B. degradation

C. ambiguity

D. extension

11. Without _________, there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.

A. context

B. semantic unity

C. structural stability

D. stylistic feature

 

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