全国2019年4月高等教育自学考试
英语词汇学试题
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I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. You are to make the
best choice and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or d on the ANSWER SHEET.
(1%×30=30%)
Which of the following cannot be defined as a word?
A. fo
B. fortune
D. misfortune
2. Words or forms that were once in common use but are now restricted only to specialized or
limited use are
A slang
B. argot
C. neologisms
D. archaisms
3. Words like foot or dog can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with
other roots and affixes, e.g. footage and dogfight. This shows that the basic word stock has the
characteristics of
A productivity
polysemy
C. collocability
D. stability
4. After the romans, the germanic tribes called Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came and dominated
the British Isles. Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as
English
A Old
B New
C Middle
D. Modern
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. English is more closely related to German than French
B. Old English was a highly inflected language
C. Modern English is considered to be an analytic language
D. In early Middle English period, English, Latin, and Celtic existed side by side
6. In the early Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient greek and roman
classics. This is known in history as
A. Industrialization
B. Elizabethan Age
C Renaissance
D. Victorian Age
7. Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word
Such alternative morphs are known as
A. stems
B allomorphs
C free morphemes
D bound morphemes
8. Among the following words
does not have inflectional affixes
A. liked
B. children’s
C happier
D. it's
9. The basic form of a word which can,t be further analyzed without total loss of identity is a
A
mo
B allomorph
C. root
D. stem
0. The following words have number prefixes eXCEpt
A. bilingual
B. multi-purpose C tricycle
D post-election
11. The following words are the results from blending EXCEPT
A. bicycle
B. motel
C smog
D. hamburger
12. The process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political
organizations or special noun phrases and technical terms is called
A. prefixation
B acronymy
C. blending
D. conversion
of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationship with other
expressions in the language
A. reference
B concept
C
sense
D. motivation
14. Which of the following statements is not true?
A Collocation can affect the meaning of words
B. Motivation explains why a particular form has a particular meaning
C By etymological motivation, we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to its
D. The connotative meaning is also known as connotations, which are generally found in the
dictionary.
15. In the phrase"the tongues offire, the word tongues is
motivated
A. onomatopoeically
B. morphologically
C. semantical
y
D
etymologicall
g
16. Words like dear that means a loved person and deer that means a kind of animal are called
A synonyms
B homographs
C. he
homophones
D. antonyms
7. Which of the following deals with the relationship of semantic opposition
A Synonymy.
B Antonymy
C Polysemy.
D Hyponymy
18. Which of the following groups of words shows difference of synonyms in connotation?
A. increase-expand
B. unlike-dissimilay
C. work -toil
D. empty-vacant
19. The word disease once meant discomfort, but now means illness. This is an example of
of word-meaning
generalization
B degradation
C. elevation
D specialization
20. The word silly used to mean happy, but now means foolish. This serves as an example of
A. extension
B. narrowing
D degradation
21. The associated transfer of meaning is often due to
factors as is shown in such words as
angel, martyr and paradise, whose meanings are elevated because of the influence of
Christianity
class
B. scientific
C. historical
D psychological
22. Grammatical context refers to the context where the meanings of a word may be influenced by
e
in which it occurs
A. meaning group
B. structure
C conversation D, culture
23. That trade union means differently in western countries and in China shows that
context
has some effect on the meaning of words
A grammatical
B. lexical
C. linguistic
D. extra-linguistic
24. Ambiguity often arises due to
as is shown in the sentence "he is a hard business
polysemy
B synonymy
C antonymy
D homonomy
25. The idiom Jack of all trades means the same as jack of all trades and master of none. This
example shows idioms may vary by means of
A shortening
B. addition
C replacement D position-shifting
26. The noun phrase pepper and salt in"His hair is pepper and sall functions as an idiom
In nature
A.nom
B. verbal
C. adverbial
D. adjectival
27. The rhetorical feature of idioms
, is used in such idioms as“ chop and change”,“bag
and baggage
A rhyme
B. alliteration
C. reiteration
D. juxtaposition
28. Dictionaries that are medium-sized ones containing words ranging from 50,000 to 150,000
are
A unabridged dictionaries
B. desk dictionaries
C pocket dictionaries
D specialized dictionaries
29. The definitions in
are all in full sentences and the definition itself throws light on
e grammatical use of the word in question
A CollinS COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987)
B. Longman Dictionary of contemporary English, New Edition(1987)
C. Ford Advanced learner 's dictionary, 3rd Edition (1980)
D Webster s New World Dictionary, 2nd College Edition (1980)
30. One can only find the English equivalents for its Chinese items such as黄粱美梦,吃软不吃
硬
A. CCELD
B CED
C. LDCE
D NECD
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I I. Complete the following statements with proper words according to the course book. you
are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate word on the aNSWER ShEet.
(1.5%×10=15%)
31. a word is a
that stands for something else in the world, and there is no logical
relationship between the sound and the meaning
32. The introduction of
into England marked the beginning of Modern English period
33. The morpheme is the
functioning unit in the composition of words
34. To shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead is
called
35
,which is beyond language, is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective
world in the human mind
36.A
field is a meaning area where words share the same concept
37. Extension of meaning is found in many
terms, as is shown in the word feedback.
which originally is a term in computer science, but now is generalized to mean"response?
38. The word paper has a number of meanings in the dictionary, but it means differently in"a
white paper”and“ today's paper”. This example shows that
context affects the
meaning of word
39. Many idioms are grammatically
own in the idiom "diamond cut diamong
which is grammatically incorrect
40. The main body of a dictionary is its
of words

III. Define the following terms on the ANSWER SHEET. (3%x5=15%)
emantic change
42. affixation
43. concatenation
44. context(in a broad sense)
5. sentence idioms
I. Answer the following questions on the ANSWER SHEET. Your answers should be clear
and short. (5%x4=20%)
46. What is the difference between a free root and a bound root?
47. Give the acronyms of the following phrases
1) Voice of america
2) unidentified flying object
3)teaching English as a foreign language
ctory day
5)tuberculosis
48. How do you understand the statement" true synonymy is non-existent?
49. Explain how context clues are used in the sentence "Perhaps the most startling theory to come
out of kinesics, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Bird Whistelr
V. Analyze and comment on the following on the ANSWER SHEET. (10%x2=20%)
50. Use the following groups of phrases to illustrate the definition and the overlapping feature of
collocative meaning
D pretty girl, pretty flower, handsome boy, handsome car
b) pretty woman, handsome woman
51. Comment on the following two groups to illustrate the use of antonyms
(a)give and take, high and low
(b) More haste, less speed /Easy come, easy go