历年4月英语词学真题和答案(2008-2011).doc

全国2008年4月历年自考英语词汇学真题 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.A 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.B 6.B 7.B 8.B 9.A 10.C 11.A 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.B 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. stru