2014年自考专业(英语)英语词汇学考试真题及答案

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一、单项选择题 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%)参考答案见试卷末尾

1、“Woman” becomes “Frau” in German, “femme” in French and “fùnǔ” in Chinese. This example shows that in different languages the same concept can be represented by different ______.

A.sounds

B.forms

C.unities

D.meanings

2、The following words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us EXCEPT ______.

A.fire

B.hot

C.photoscanning

D.sister

3、Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling. Which of the following words comes from Chinese?

A.Bazaar.

B.Kowtow.

C.Rajah.

D.Blitzkrieg.

4、The Indo-European language family is made up of the languages of the following EXCEPT ______.

A.Europe

B.the Far East

C.India

D.the Near East

5、Which of the following is NOT one of the main sources of new words in the present-day English vocabulary?

A.The rapid development of modern science and technology.

B.Social, economic and political changes.

C.The invasion of foreign countries.

D.The influence of other cultures and languages.

6、Modern English vocabulary develops through the following channels EXCEPT ______.

A.creation

B.borrowing

C.semantic change

D.lexical change

7、How many monomorphemic words are there in the following words?cats boss work improper tried

A.1.

B.2.

C.3.

D.4.

8、Among the following words, “______” does NOT have inflectional affixes.

A.liked

B.children’s

C.happier

D.it’s

9、Which of the following words does NOT have suffixes?

A.Northward.

B.Widen.

C.Happy.

D.Worker.

10、Among the following words, “______ ” contains a negative prefix.

A.amoral

B.de-compose

C.antiwar

D.foretell

11、From the viewpoint of word formation, the word “smog” is a ______.

A.compound

B.conversion

C.clipping

D.blending

12、Which of the following is partially converted?

A.A white.

B.A drunk.

C.The poor.

D.Finals.

13、One can figure out the meaning of “airmail” to be “mail by air” by its ______.

A.onomatopoeic motivation

B.morphological motivation

C.semantic motivation

D.etymological motivation

14、When a reader comes across the word “home” in his reading, the word may remind him of his “family, friends, warmth,safety, etc. ” In this sense, the word “home” conveys ______.

A.connotative meaning

B.stylistic meaning

C.affective meaning

D.collocative meaning

15、Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Grammatical meaning refers to the part of speech, tenses of verbs and stylistic features ofwords.

B.Unlike conceptual meaning, associative meaning is unstable and indeterminate.

C.Affective meaning indicates the listener’s attitude towards the person or thing in question.

D.Collocation cannot affect the meaning of words.

16、Words that are identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning are called ______.

A.perfect homonyms

B.homographs

C.homophones

D.homonyms

17、The differences between synonyms exist in the following areas EXCEPT ______.

A.denotation

B.connotation

C.reference

D.application

18、“Apple, pear, peach, orange, lemon, etc.” make up the ______ of “fruit”.

A.synonyms

B.homonyms

C.superordinate term

D.semantic field

19、______ of meaning is a process by which a word that originally had a specialized meaning has now become generalized.

A.Degradation

B.Elevation

C.Extension

D.Specilization

20、Which of the following is NOT one of the extra-linguistic factors that cause changes in meaning?

A.Cultural reason.

B.Historical reason.

C.Class reason.

D.Psychological reason.

21、The word “minister” originally meant“a servant”, but now has changed to“a head of a ministry”. This process of meaning change is called ______.

A.extension

B.elevation

C.degradation

D.specialization

22、In grammatical context, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the ______in which it occurs.

A.structure

B.sentence

C.phrase

D.clause

23、There is an ambiguity in the sentence “He is a hard businessman” due to ______.

A.polysemy

B.homonymy

C.synonymy

D.antonymy

24、Which of the following is NOT one of the context clues?

A.Definition.

B.Polysemy.

C.Synonymy.

D.Antonymy.

25、Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms?

A.The part of speech of each element in an idiom is very important.

B.The constituents of idioms can’t be replaced.

C.The word order in an idiom can’t be changed.

D.An idiom functions as one word.

26、Idioms nominal in nature have a(n) ______ as the key word in each and function as a noun in sentences.

A.verb

B.adjective

C.preposition

D.noun

27、Lexical manipulation is one aspect of the rhetorical features of idioms. The following EXCEPT ______ belong to lexical manipulation.

A.alliteration

B.reiteration

C.repetition

D.juxtaposition

28、Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition (1980), is among the best-known British ______ dictionaries.

A.unabridged

B.desk

C.pocket

D.bilingual

29、Generally, a dictionary covers the following contents EXCEPT ______.

A.spelling

B.pronunciation

C.definition

D.syntactical rules

30、Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987) has some unique features such as definition, extra column and ______.

A.pronunciation

B.grammar codes

C.usage examples

D.language codes

参考答案：

【一、单项选择题】

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