课程代码：00832
 Ⅰ.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.(30%)
1.An idiom is characterized by (      ).
A. semantic unity       B. structural stability
C. non-motivation       D. all the above
2. Which words belong to the functional words? (      )
A. prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions
B. articles, adjectives, pronouns
C. adverbs, conjunctions, nouns
D. prepositions, auxiliaries, articles
3. A word is a symbol that (      ).
A. is used by the same speech community
B. represents something else in the world
C. is both simple and complex in nature
D. shows different ideas in different sounds
4. “Phone”, “doc”, “sis” and “fridge” are examples of (      ) ?
A. abbreviation                   B. shortening
C. clipping                       D. analogy
5. Meaning is closely related to (      ).
A. concept                       B. contextualism
C. implicature                   D. symbolism
6. (      ) is a figure of speech containing an implied comparison in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another.
A. Simile                       B. Synecdoche
C. Overstatement                     D. Metaphor
7. Most English idioms are (      ) .
A. opaque                      B. transparent
C. motivated                       D. self-evident
8. The pond was full of garbage, giving (      ) the worst smell that you can imagine.
A. off                    B. over
C. in                     D. up
9. (      ) are morphemes used to express grammatical relationships between a word and its context.
A. Grammatical morphemes               B. Inflectional morphemes
C. Bound morphemes                     D. A and B
10. Stylistically, back-formed words are largely (      ) and some of them have not gained public acceptance.
A. informal                       B. adjectives
C. human nouns                       D. formal
11. The word “nose” in the phrase “the nose of the plane” is related to (      ).
A. onomatopoeic motivation                B. semantic motivation
C. morphological motivation               D. etymological motivation
12. Which of the following statements is NOT true? (      )
A. English is more closely related to German than French.
B. Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
C. Old English was not a highly inflected language.
D. In early Middle English period, English, Latin, and French existed side by side.
13. In the idiom “fortune’s wheel”, we change it into “wheel of fortune” without changing meaning. This change of constituent is known as (      ).
A. replacement                     B. deletion
C. position-shifting                D. dismembering
14. “Marshal”, “lady”, and “fond” have experienced the process of (      ) of meaning.
A. degradation                      B. elevation
C. extension                      D. narrowing
15. The words which occur before or after a word and may affect its meaning form (      ).
A. grammatical context                   B. lexical context
C. context of culture                     D. extra-linguistic context 转贴于：自考_考试大

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