浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试
英语词汇学试题
课程代码：10059
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choo the one that would best complete the statement. (15%, 1 point for each)
1．Which of the following is NOT true?【 】
A．A word is the smallest form of a language.
国军抗. A word is a sound unit.
C. A word has a given meaning.
D. A word can be ud freely in a ntence.
2. In the Eastern Set, _____ and _____ are each the only modern language respectively.【 肯德基工资
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A．Italic/Germanic B. Albanian/American
C. Celtic/Hellenic D. Balto-Slavic/Indo-Iranian
3. Modern English began with the establishment of _____ in English.【 】
A．printing B. Bourgeois Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution D. the Renaissance
4. Words involved in conversion are mainly 【 】
A．nouns, verbs and adverbs B. nouns, adjectives and verbs
C. nouns, prepositions and verbs D. adjectives, adverbs and verbs
5．Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not posss all the qualities a noun does. They must be ud together with 【 】
A．plural forms B. single forms
C. adjectives D. definite articles
6．Back-formation usually involves _____ types of words.【 】
A．3 B. 4
C. 5 D. 2
7.Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: _____, mantic change and _____.【 】
A． exchange/conversion B. compounding/borrowing
C. creation/borrowing D. suffixation/creation
8.Nouns converted from adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as 【 】
A．partial conversion B. full conversion
C. functional shift D. grammatical shift
9. English words can be motivated 【 】
A．phonologically B. morphologically
C. etymologically D. All the above
10. CED (1995) is noted for 【 】
A．18000 multi-character entries including catch phras, sayings and proverbs
B. more faithful English equivalents for the Chine items
C. abundant usage examples
D. All of the above
11. _____ is not a characteristic of basic word stock.【 】
A．Colloquialism B. All natural character
C. Stability D. Polymy
12. Collocation can affect 【 】
A．the meaning of words B. the structure of the ntences
C. the spelling of words D. the function of words
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13. The word which occurs before or after a word may affect its meaning from _____ context.【 】
A．physical B. grammatical
C. lexical D. linguistic
14．The idiom “a dark hor” is a 【 】
A. simile B. metaphor
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C. metonymy D. personification
15. Affixes added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as 【 】
A．bound roots B. free morphemes
C. inflectional morphemes D. derivational affixes
Ⅱ.Decide whether the following statements are true or fal. Write T for true and F for fal. (20%, 2 points for each)
16. Old English was a highly inflected language.【 】
17. The four major foreign contributors to English vocabulary in earlier times are Latin, French, Scandinavian and Italian.【 】
18. Old English vocabulary was in esnce Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.【 】
19. As a rule, the stress of compounds falls on the first element. 【 】
20. Grammatical meaning refers to the part of speech, tens of verbs and stylistic features of words.【 】
21. In the phra “the tongues of fire”, the word fire is mantically motivated. 【 】
上开头的成语接龙22. Homonyms come mainly from borrowing, changes in sound and spelling, and dialects. 【 】
23. Words which have opposite meanings are called antonyms.【 】
24. If a word has synonyms, naturally it has antonyms.【 】
25. An idiom contains at least two words.【 】
Ⅲ.Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B (10%, 1 point for each)
A B
26. | terrestrial | A. | wave |
杭州十大景点27. | sage | B. | earthly |
28. | fraternal | C. | buy |
29. | chamber | D.延安往事 | room |
30. | purcha 猴字开头的成语 | E. | wi |
31. | epoch | F. | brotherly |
32. | billow | G. | begin |
33. | foe | H. | Time |
34. | interrogate | I. | Enemy |
35. | commence | J. | ask |
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Ⅳ.Complete the following statements with proper expressions according to the textbook. (10%, 2 points for each)
36. Old English refers to the language ud between ______.
37. Modern English is a (an) ______ language.
38. A word is a ______ free form that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.
