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1、全国高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题全国2004年4月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题 全国2004年4月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题 课程代码：00832I. 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. There are _ major classes of compounds. A. two B. fo

2、r C. three D. five 2. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Connotative meaning refers to associations suggested by the conceptual meaning. B. Stylistic meaning accounts for the formality of the word concerned. C. Affective meaning is universal to all men alike. D. Denotative meaning can

3、 always be found in the dictionary. 3. After the invading Germanic tribes settled down in Britain, their language almost totally blotted out _. A. Old English B. Middle English C. Anglo-Saxon D. Celtic 4. The idiom “Jack of all trades” results from _. A. addition B. position-shifting C. dismembering

4、 D. shortening 5. _ are those that cannot occur as separate words without adding other morphemes. A. Free roots B. Free morphemes C. Bound morphemes D. Meaningful units 6. The major factors that promote the growth of modern English are _. A. the growth of science and technology B. economic and polit

5、ical changes C. the influence of other cultures and languages D. all the above 7. Since the beginning of this century, _ has become even more important for the expansion of English vocabulary. A. word-formation B. borrowing C. semantic change D. both B and C 8. Which of the following characteristics

6、 of the basic word stock is the most important? A. StabilityB. Collocability. C. Productivity.D. National character. 9. The two major factors that cause changes in meaning are _. A. historical reason and class reason B. historical reason and psychological reason C. class reason and psychological rea

7、son D. extra-linguistic factors and linguistic factors 10. The fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is whether _. A. they come from the same source B. they are correlated with one central meaning C. they are listed under one headword in a dictionary D. all the above 11. Degradatio

8、n of meaning is the opposite of _. A. semantic transfer B. semantic pejoration C. semantic elevation D. semantic narrowing 12. An idiom consists of at least two words. Each has a single meaning and often functions as one word. This is called _. A. semantic unity B. structural stability C. rhetorical

9、 function D. none of the above 13. Which of the following suffixes can be used to form both nouns and adjectives? _ A. -ion. B. -ism. C. -ity. D. -ist. 14. More often than not, functional words only have _. A. lexical meaning B. associative meaning C. collocative meaning D. grammatical meaning 15. L

10、inguistic context is also known as _ context. A. social B. verbal C. lexical D. physical II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (10%) 16. In the course book, the idioms are classified according to _ functions. 17. Linguistic context can b

11、e further divided into _ context and grammatical context. 18. The _ languages made only a small contribution to the English vocabulary with a few place names like Avon, kent, Themes. 19. Morphemes which are identical with root words are considered to be _. 20. According to semanticists, a word is a

12、unit of _. III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) stylistic meanings; 2)language groups; 3)degrees of inflections and 4) onomatopoeic motivation. (10%) A B ( )21. apes A. colloquial ( )22. Old English B. a language of full endings ( )23. Irish C. Itali

13、c ( )24. tiny D. very formal and official ( )25. French E. yelp ( )26. cattle F. poetic ( )27. domicile G. Celtic ( )28. abode H. gibber ( )29. foxes I. a language of leveled endings ( )30. Middle English J. low . Study the following words and expressions and identify 1) types of affixes; 2) types o

14、f meaning and 3) types of motivation. (10%) 31. mismanage ( ) 32. elephants-trumpet ( ) 33. pretty ( ) 34. forehead ( ) 35. bossy ( ) 36. sun: a heavenly body which gives off light, heat ( ) 37. anti-establishment ( ) 38. subsea ( ) 39. a sea of troubles ( ) 40. harder ( ) . Define the following ter

15、ms. (10%) 41. idiom 42. functional words 43. degradation 44. bilingual dictionary 45. conversion . Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below. (12%) 46. What factors should one take into account when he chooses a dictionary? 47

16、. What are the features of compounds? Give examples. 48. Cite ONE example to illustrate what grammatical meaning is. . Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. (18%) 49. Read the following extract and try to guess the meaning of the word in italics. Then exp

17、lain what contextual clues help you work out the meaning. Get me an avocado, please,Janet said, smacking her lips, but her brother, with a glance up at the branches, said that there were none ripe yet. 50. Make a tree diagram to arrange the following words in order of hyponymy. apple, cabbage, food, vegetable, mutton, fruit, peach, meat, beef, orange, spinach, pork, celery