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陕西理工学院成教院《英语词汇学》自测题 Self-Assessment Exx on English Lexicology 一.?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. 1.?Words?fall?into?the?basic?word?stock?and?nonbasic?vocabulary?by?______.?（ ）? A.?use?frequency? ?B.?notion? C.?productivity D.?origin? 2.?Words?like?bear,?nut,?knocked?out?can?be?categorized?as?______.?（ ）?A.?terminology B.?jargon ?C.?slang D.?neologisms? 3.?Identify?the?word?that?is?of?Scandinavian?origin?among?the?following.?（ ）?A.?Skirt ??B.?Dress ?C.?Model D.?Status? 4.?Which?of?the?following?statements?is?NOT?true??（ ）? A.?Old?English?was?a?highly?inflected?language.? B.?Reviving?archaic?or?obsolete?words?also?contribute?to?the?growth?of?English?vocabulary ?C.?The?word?cloak?is?of?French?origin. ?D.?Modern?English?is?a?synthetic?language.? 5.?The?root?of?the?word?“antecedent”?is?______.?（ ）?A.?ante- B.?-ced-? C.?-dent D.?-ent? 6.Shortening?a?longer?word?by?cutting?a?part?off?the?original?and?using?what?remains?is?called?____.（ ）?A.?blending B.?clipping ?C.?acronymy D.?back-formation? 7.?Associative?meaning?of?words?comprises?the?following?except?______.?（ ）?A.?connotative?meaning???B.?lexical?meaning?C.?affective?meaning??? D.?collocative?meaning? 8.?What?is?a?common?feature?peculiar?to?all?natural?languages??（ ）?A.?Suffixation. B.?Polysemy.? C.?Allomorph.??? D.?Variation.? 9.?Which?word ?that?formerly?meant?animal, ?and?later?animal?from?Latin?and?beast?from?French?found?their?way?into?English?（ ）?A.?Deer. B.?Cattle.? C.?Sheep. D.?Bird.? 10.?When?a?word?with?multiple?meanings?is?used?in?an?inadequate?context,? this?word?may?create?______.?（ ）?A.?semantic?motivation B.?degradation ?C.?ambiguity??? D.?extension? 11.?Without?______,?there?is?no?way?to?determine?the?very?sense?of?the?word?that?the?speaker?intended?to?convey.?（ ）A.?context B.?semantic?unity? C.?structural?stability D.?stylistic?feature? 12.?Idioms?manifest?such