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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2008年4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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