2011年自考专业(英语)英语词汇学考试真题及答案

自考英语是指参加全国高等教育自学英语专业的考试，主要是培养具有扎实的英语语言基础和比较广泛的科学文化知识，能在外事、经贸、文化、新闻出版、教育、科研、旅游等部门从事翻译、研究、教学、管理工作的英语高级专门人才。上学吧自考英语题库是专门为自考英语专业的考生提供刷题服务的，相信考生在不断地坚持刷题练习中定会有所收获。现在就点击安装APP刷题。以下为试卷的详细内容：

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、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’, ‘deer’ 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

C.homonymy

D.polysemy

25、Which of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms?

A.Semantic unity.

B.Lexical manipulation.

C.Phonetic unity.

D.Structural variation.

26、Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?

A.Stylistic features.

B.Syntactical features.

C.Rhetorical features.

D.Occasional variations.

27、The idiom “bed of dust” is a ___________ as far as figures of speech are concerned.

A.simile

B.metaphor

C.metonymy

D.personification

28、Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n) _____________ dictionary.

A.unabridged

B.desk

C.pocket

D.encyclopedic

29、When we choose a dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether it is _____________.

A.monolingual or bilingual

B.general or specialized

C.early or late

D.unabridged or abridged

30、Readers will usually find in a general dictionary the following areas of information of a word EXCEPT _________ .

A.spelling

B.definition

C.pronunciation

D.difference with its synonyms

参考答案：

【一、单项选择题】

1~5 DAACD 6~10 ADBBB

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