全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题

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. Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can function in a sentence.
（　　）
A. small
B. large
C. fixed
D. free
2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should ________ that of the oral form. ( )
A. agree with
B. disagree with
C. be the same as
D. be different from
3. ____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. （　　）
A. Terminology
B. Jargon
C. Slang
D. Argot
4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_________. （　　）
A. fast food
B. TV dinner
C. Mao jackets
D. Watergate
5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English. （　　）
A. own
B. let
C. rent
D. lend
6. If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings. （　　）
A. full
B. short
C. long
D. paralleled
7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT ______________. （　　）
A. bottles
B. eggs
C. zoos
D. maps
8. There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection. （　　）
A. l
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________. （　　）
A. likes
B. dislike
C. liking
D. liked
10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _______________. （　　）
A. affixation
B. blending
C. compounding
D. conversion
11. Prefixes generally do not change the __________ of the stem. （　　）
A. meaning
B. form
C. word class
D. pronunciation
12. The word “dorm” is formed by _________clipping. （　　）
A. back
B. front
C. phrase
D. front and back
13. The word “reading-lamp” is _______ motivated. （　　）
A. onomatopoeically
B. morphologically
C. semantically
D. etymologically
14. The synonymous pair of “ask－question” has the same___________. （　　）
A. motivation
B. value
C. function
D. concept
15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its __________ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc. （　　）
A. grammatical
B. connotative
C. stylistic
D. collocative
16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to them in____________。 （　　）
A. sense
B. spelling
C. morpheme
D. root and stem
17. _____________, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison. （　　）
A. Synchronically
B. Diachronically
C. Etymologically
D. Onomatopoeically
18. The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; silence is golden” are ____________. （　　）
A. speech-silence
B. golden-silver
C. speech-silver
D. silence-golden
19. In Shakespearean line ‘Rats and mice and such small deer’, ‘6deer’ obviously designates ‘animal’ in general. Therefore ‘deer’ is a typical example of _________. （　　）
A. extension
B. elevation
C. narrowing
D. degradation
20. 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. （　　）
A. important
B. agreeable
C. respective
D. pejorative
21. Among the following words only“________ ” expresses the property of elevation. ( )
A. lust
B. criticize
C. knight
D. silly
22. Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context? （　　）
A. Elimination of ambiguity.
B. Indication for referents.
C. Understanding of cultural background.
D. Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.
23. Which of the following is NOT a context clue? （　　）
A. Definition.
B. Example.
C. Synonymy.
D. Sentence structure.
24. The sentence “The ball was attractive” is ambiguous due to_______________. （　　）
A. grammatical structure
B. lexical context

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