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全国2011年4月自学考试英语词汇学试题和答案
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. The development of English vocabulary can be divided into the following particular historical period EXCEPT ______. ( )
A. Old English B. Middle English
C. New English D. Modern English
2. The definition of a word comprises the following points ______ . ( )
(1) a minimal free form of a language
(2) a sound unity
(3) a unit of meaning
(4) a form that can function alone in a sentence
A. (1) and (2) B. (1) (2) and (3)
C. (2) (3) and (4) D. (1) (2) (3) and (4)
3. Words of the basic word stock can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and affixes, e.g. foot is the father of football, footage and footprint. This demonstrates that one of the characteristics of the words of the basic stock is ______ . ( )
A. productivity B. polysemy
C. stability D. collocability
4. The Indo-European language family is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and ______ . ( )
A. India B. the Far East
C. the West Asia D. America
5. In the early period of Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient Greek and ______ classics. This is known in history as the Renaissance. ( )
A. India B. German
C. Roman D. Chinese
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( )
A. Old English was a highly inflected language.
B. In early Middle English period, English, Latin and Celtic existed side by side.
C. The introduction of printing into England marked the beginning of modern English period.
D. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is creation of new words by means of word-formation.
7. The smallest functioning unit in the composition of words is ______.( )
A. morpheme B. affixes
C. root D. stem
8. There is/are ______ monomorphemic word(s) in the following words: hot, dog, feet, matches.
( )
A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4
9. The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/s/in the following words EXCEPT ______.
( )
A. packs B. bags
C. cheats D. ships
10. 30% to 40% of the total number of new words in English vocabulary are produced through ______ .( )
A. affixation B. clipping
C. compounding D. shortening
11. The formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class is called ______. ( )
A. prefixation B. suffixation
C. acronymy D. conversion
12. The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes is called ______. ( )
A. back-formation B. clipping
C. blending D. suffixation
13. ______ accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning. ( )
A. Sense B. Motivation
C. Concept D. Reference
14. By ______ motivation, we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to its origin.
( )
A. onomatopoeic B. morphological
C. semantic D. etymological
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