全国2014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. Choose the one that best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A,B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(30%)
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 of
words.
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.
