2012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、Words can be classified into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______.

A.use frequency

B.notion

C.origin

D.grammar

2、In formal use, “pot” means “cooking utensil”. Whereas, when it means “marijuana”, it is a ______.

A.jargon

B.terminology

C.slang

D.argot

3、Translation-loans are words and expressions formed from the existing material in the English language but modelled on the patterns taken from another language. For example, the English expression “long time no see” is from ______.

A.Latin

B.Chinese

C.Greek

D.French

4、The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as ______ languages.

A.Hellenic

B.Albanian

C.Celtic

D.Scandinavian

5、Which of the following is NOT the main source of new words?

A.The rapid development of modern science and technology.

B.Social, economic and political changes.

C.Environmental protection.

D.The influence of other cultures and languages.

6、Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.In modern times，borrowing brings less than ten percent of modern English vocabulary.

B.Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.

C.The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is creation of new words by means of word-formation.

D.In early Middle English period，English，Latin，and Celtic existed side by side.

7、There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words：worker, car, impossible，anger, politely.

A.2

B.3

C.4

D.5

8、There is/are ______ stem(s)in the word“internationalists”

A.1

B.2

C.3

D.4

9、The past tense marker“-ed”is pronounced as/t/in the following words EXCEPT ______.

A.enabled

B.worked

C.jumped

D.helped

10、The most productive ways of word-formation in modern English are the following EXCEPT ______.

A.affixation

B.compounding

C.conversion

D.blending

11、The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called ______.

A.clipping

B.compounding

C.acronymy

D.back-formation

12、The word “pop” belongs to ______ clipping.

A.front

B.back

C.front and back

D.phrase

13、The ______ meaning of words usually shows the attitude of approval of the speaker.

A.affective

B.appreciative

C.pejorative

D.connotative

14、Which of the following is NOT one of the associative meaning of a word?

A.Grammatical meaning.

B.Stylistic meaning.

C.Collocative meaning.

D.Connotative meaning.

15、______ motivation explains the connection between the literal sense and figurative sense of the word.

A.Morphological

B.Onomatopoeic

C.Semantic

D.Etymological

16、Antonyms are classified on the basis of ______ opposition.

A.semantic

B.euphemistic

C.idiomatic

D.grammatical

17、Lion，elephant，tiger, turtle，sheep and snake are ______ of animal.

A.hyponyms

B.synonyms

C.collocation

D.denomination

18、As far as denotation is concerned，relative synonyms may differ ______.

A.in the diachronic approach

B.in the stylistic and emotive colouring of words

C.in usage in simple terms

D.in the range and intensity of meaning

19、Borrowing has caused word-meaning changes，as indicated in“______ 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

20、There are generally two major factors that cause changes in meaning，extra-linguistic factors and ______ factors within the language system.

A.functional

B.external

C.meaningful

D.internal

21、______ is a process by which a word of wider meaning acquires a specialized sense. For example，the original meaning of the word“meat” was food and the modern meaning is edible flesh.

A.Conversion

B.Elevating

C.Narrowing

D.Formation

22、Which of the following is NOT a context clue?

A.Relevant details.

B.Sentence structure.

C.Synonymy.

D.Antonymy.

23、The sentence “I like Mary better than John’’ is ambiguous due to ______.

A.grammatical context

B.polysemy

C.antonymy

D.hyponymy

24、In the sentence“Copernicus believed in a heliocentric universe，rather than in the geocentric theory”，the meaning of heliocentric call be inferred from the clue of ______.

A.relevant details

B.word structure

C.antonymy

D.hyponymy

25、“Tooth and nail” is all idiom ______ in nature.

A.verbal

B.nominal

C.adjectival

D.adverbial

26、Which of the following rhetorical features can be seen in the idiom “wear and tear”?

A.Rhyme.

B.Alliteration.

C.Juxtaposition.

D.Synecdoche.

27、The idiom “play fair” was created probably by______.

A.seamen

B.housewives

C.sportsmen

D.hunters

28、Encyclopaedic dictionaries can be further divided into encyclopaedia and ______dictionaries.

A.1inguistic

B.encyclopaedic

C.specialized

D.unabridged

29、LDCE is distinctive for the following features EXCEPT ______.

A.clear grammar codes

B.usage notes

C.1anguage notes

D.extra column

30、Which of the following is NOT true for a Chinese-English Dictionary (revised Edition) (CED) (1995)?

A.It is a bilingual dictionary.

B.It is the most complete and up-to-date, most elaborately treated.

C.It cuts off the previous alphabetical order of entries.

D.It boasts of the quality of the English equivalents it provides for its Chinese items.

参考答案：

【一、单项选择题】

1~5 ACBDC 6~10 DADAD

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