2023年4月六盘水自考英语词汇学试题
课程代码：00832
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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.(1%×30=30%)
1. By notion, words can be grouped into words and functional words.
A.content B.native C.neutral D.basic
2. Which of the following words does NOT belong to the basic word stock of English? A. pine B.orchestra C.evil D. heart
3.Which of the following words shows the archaic use of a word?
A. beaver (girl) B.X-rays (radar) C.holler(call) D.thou(you)
4. In the early period of Modern English, scholars took words from to replace the forms adopted earlier
A. French and LatinB.German and Greek
C.Latin and GreekD.French and German
5.Which of the following is true about Middle English?
A. In the early Middle English period, English, Latin, and Celtic existed side by side.
B.Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little change in word endings.
C.After the Norman Conquest, English was a despised language which was left to the use of
boors and serfs.
D.By the end of the 16th century, English gradually had come back into the schools and regained social status.
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6. A(n) may consist of a single root morpheme as in iron or of two root morphemes as
in a compound like handcuff.
A.prefix B.allomorph C.stem D.suffix
7. Structurally, many words can be separated into even smaller meaningful units. For example,
antecedent can be broken down into
A.ante-,-ced-,-ent B.an-,-te-,-ced-,-ent
C.an-,-teced-,-ent D.ante-,-ce-,-dent
8. There is/are monomorphemic word(s) in the following words: sad, dogs, desire, landed, men
A.1 B.2 C.3 D.4
9.Which of the following words has an inflectional affix?
A.bloody B. preschool C. southward D. radios
10. Plane and exam are often used in place of aeroplane and examination respectively. This pattern of word-formation is called
A.affixation B.blending C.conversion D.clipping
11. In which of the following sentences is the italicized word NOT converted?
A.Soya is excellent food to fatten cattle.
B. We can't stomach such an insult.
C.These shoes were an excellent buy.
D.Women have an equal say in affairs at home.
12. All the following words are initialisms EXCEPT
A.AIDS B.VOA C.UFO D.TV
13. Every word that has meaning has ,but not every word has reference.
A.concept B.sense C.motivation D.symbol
14. One can figure out the meaning of hopeless to be "without hope"by its A.semantic motivation B.morphological motivation
C.onomatopoeic motivation D.etymological motivation
15. The word mother is often associated with "love","care","tenderness", etc. In this sense, the word mother conveys
A.connotative meaningB.stylistic meaning
C.affective meaningD.collocative meaning
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16. The primary meaning of the word harvest is" .
A.time of cuttingB. winning by achievement
C. reaping and gathering the cropsD.a season's yield of grain or fruit
17. The following pairs of words are antonyms. Which pair belongs to contradictory terms? A.present /absent B.rich/poor
C.give / receive D.predecessor / successor
18. Which of the following words does NOT belong to the semantic field of fruits? A.lemon B.lettuce C.mango D.date
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19. Mill originally meant "place for grinding", but now it means "place where things are made".
This process of the word-meaning change is called
A.elevation B.degradation C.narrowing D.extension
20. Which of the following words belongs to transfer of sensations?
A.nose(in"the nose of a plane")
B.loud colours (from hearing to sight)
C. doubtful (causing doubt and showing doubt)
D.aftermath (second crop of grass after mowing → result, consequence)
21. All the following EXCEPT are linguistic factors that cause the change of meaning.
A.shortening B.analogy C. borrowing D.antonymy
22. In spite of the fact that the fishermen were wearing sou'westers, the storm was so heavy that they were wet through.
According to the context, what does sou'westers mean in the above sentence? A. Something worn by people in summer.
B. Something worn by people in storms.
C. Something worn by people in deserts.
D. Something worn by people in mountains.
23. Which of the following can illustrate that the extra-linguistic context may affect the meaning of words?
A.become B.landlord C. today's paper D. do the flowers
24. Paper has a number of meanings in the dictionary, yet it only conveys the sense of
"government document"in the context of
A.a term paper B. today's paper C.a white paper D.a sheet of paper
25. Functioning as an adverb, the idiom like a breeze can be replaced by“ ". A.lightly B.windy C.easily D.unlikely
26. Grammatically speaking, white elephant is an idiom in nature.
A.nominal B.verbal C.adjectival D.adverbial
27. Which of the following is NOT an idiom?
A.like cures like B.as sure as eggs is eggs
C. kick the bucket D.mouth service
28. Idioms have the characteristic of
A.simile B.synecdoche C.lexical unity D.structural stability
29. is NOT commonly included in a general dictionary.
A. The pronunciation of a word
B. Grammar
C. The meaning of a word
D.The differences between synonyms
30. A New English-Chinese Dictionary is a good example of
A.monolingual dictionaries B. bilingual dictionaries
C.encyclopedic dictionaries D.specialized dictionaries
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Ⅱ. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions on the ANSWER SHEET according to the course book.(1.5%×10=15%)
31. The written form of English is an imperfect representation of the form.
32. In the sense of vocabulary development modes. change means an old form which takes on a new meaning to meet the new need.
33. Unlike a free root,a(n) root has to combine with other morphemes to make words.
34. The most productive means of word-formation are affixation, and conversion.
35. Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires in its . In other words, it is that part of the word-meaning suggested by the words before or after the word in
discussion.
36. Words like end, terminate, close are different in sound and spelling, but most nearly alike in meaning. They are called
37. The original meaning of fond was "foolish", but now it means "affectionate". This process of the meaning change is called
38. Many United Nations employees are polyglots. Ms. Mary, for instance, speaks five languages. This sentence shows that context clues of difficult words may be given with a(n) to throw light on the meaning of the term.
39. Unlike free phrases, the structure of an idiom is to a large extent
40. The advantages of pocket dictionaries are being inexpensive and easy to
Ⅲ. Define the following terms on the ANSWER SHEET.(3%×5=15%)
41. creation
42. blending
43. hyponymy
44. grammatical context
45. position-shifting
IV. Answer the following questions on the ANSWER SHEET. Your answers should be clear and short.(5%×4=20%)
46. What are the two types of derivational affixes and what's the difference between them?
47. Turn the following nouns and adjectives into verbs with suffixes -en,-ify,-ize.
(1) hard
(2) horror
(3)memory
(4) intense
(5)fat
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48. What is the sense relation of the following words? rose, pine, jlower; tree, plant, living things
49. What are the two types of contexts? And what does each type refer to?
V. Analyze and comment on the following on the ANSWER SHEET.(10%×2=20%)
50. What is motivation? Does the theory of motivation contradict that of “arbitrariness”and "conventionality" concerning the relationship between linguistic symbols and their senses? Why or why not?
51. Comment on the types of homonyms by analyzing the following groups of words.
(1) date n.a kind of fruit/ date n. a boy or girlfriend
(2) sow v. to scatter seeds/sow n.female adult pig
(3) right/write
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