00832英语词汇学1207试题

全国2012年7月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码：00832

I．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%)

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.

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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.

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