全国英语词汇学(00832)高等教育自学考试试题与答案

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全国高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码：00832

I. Each of the stateme nts below is followed by four alter native an swers. Choose the one

that best completes the stateme nt and put the letter in the bracket. 1. According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______ . (

)

A . meaning

B . Sound

C . comb in ati on of sounds

2. The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.( )

(30% )

D . Group

A . more slowly than C . more rapidly than

B. As quickly as D . Not so quickly as

3. Words may fall into the basic word stock and non basic vocabulary by _____ . ( )

A . use frequency B. notion

C. origin

D. sound

4 . Rapid growth of scie nee and tech no logy breeds such new words as the follow ing

EXCEPT _____ .(

_________________ ) A . gree n revoluti on B . fast food

C . moon walk

D . space shuttle

5 . Sema ntic cha nge means an old form which takes on a new _____ t o meet the new n eed.

A . form

B . mea ning

C . look

D . pronun ciati on

6 . Revivi ng archaic words also con tribute to the growth of En glish vocabulary. For in sta nee, in

American English “all" means ______ in British English.( )

A . four C . for

B . fell D . autu mn

7 . The plural morpheme “s" is realized by /s/after the following sounds EXCEPT _____ .

( ) A . /t/ B . /g/

C . /p/

D . /k/

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free morphemic words in the following: bird, man, red, collection. (

B. two

C. three 9. The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT B. prewar

30% to 40% of the total nu mber of new words in En glish are produced through

compo unding

The word motel is created by

12. BBC "is formed in the way of

The types of meanings in clude the followi ng EXCEPT

is the result of huma n cog niti on, reflect ing the objective world in the huma n mind.

B . Concept

Semantic field, according to the course book, is also considered an integral part of

8. There are D . four

A . works C . postwar

D . bloody

10. B . affixation C . conversion

D . shorte ning

11. compo unding

B . clippi ng

C . blending

D . suffixati on acronymy B . clippi ng C . back-formatio n

D . prefixati on

13. grammatical mea ning B . conceptual meaning C . associative mea ning D . literal meaning

14. By

motivation, we mean that the meaning of a word is related to its origin.

(

ono matopoeic

B . morphological

C . sema ntic

D . etymological

15.

Refere nee C . Sense

D . Motivation

16. A . word formation C. meaning change

B . word meaning D . Sense relations