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浙江省2007年7月高等教育自学考试
英语词汇学试题
课程代码:10059
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (15%, 1 point for each)
1.Which of the following is NOT true?【 】
A.A word is the smallest form of a language.
B. A word is a sound unit.
C. A word has a given meaning.
D. A word can be used freely in a sentence.
2. In the Eastern Set, _____ and _____ are each the only modern language respectively.【 】
A.Italic/Germanic
B. Albanian/American
C. Celtic/Hellenic
D. Balto-Slavic/Indo-Iranian
3. Modern English began with the establishment of _____ in English.【 】
A.printing
B. Bourgeois Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution
D. the Renaissance
4. Words involved in conversion are mainly 【 】
A.nouns, verbs and adverbs
B. nouns, adjectives and verbs
C. nouns, prepositions and verbs
D. adjectives, adverbs and verbs
5.Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not possess all the qualities a noun does. They must be used together with 【 】
A.plural forms
B. single forms
C. adjectives
D. definite articles
6.Back-formation usually involves _____ types of words.【 】
A.3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 2
7.Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: _____, semantic change and _____.【 】
A. exchange/conversion
B. compounding/borrowing
C. creation/borrowing
D. suffixation/creation
8.Nouns converted from adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as 【 】
A.partial conversion
B. full conversion
C. functional shift
D. grammatical shift
9. English words can be motivated 【 】
A.phonologically
B. morphologically
C. etymologically
D. All the above
10. CED (1995) is noted for 【 】
A.18000 multi-character entries including catch phrases, sayings and proverbs
B. more faithful English equivalents for the Chinese items
C. abundant usage examples
D. All of the above
11. _____ is not a characteristic of basic word stock.【 】
A.Colloquialism
B. All natural character
C. Stability
D. Polysemy
12. Collocation can affect 【 】
A.the meaning of words
B. the structure of the sentences
C. the spelling of words
D. the function of words
13. The word which occurs before or after a word may affect its meaning from _____ context.【 】
A.physical
B. grammatical
C. lexical
D. linguistic
14.The idiom “a dark horse” is a 【 】
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. metonymy
D. personification
15. Affixes added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as 【 】
A.bound roots
B. free morphemes
C. inflectional morphemes
D. derivational affixes
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