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全国2006年4月高等教育自学考试 英语词汇学试题 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. Extension can be illustrated by the following example: _________.（　　　） A. butcher → one who kills goats B. journal → periodical C. companion → one who shares bread D. allergic → too sensitive to medicine 2. The differences between synonyms boil down to three areas, namely, _________.（　　　） A. extension, increase and expansion B. denotation, connotation and application C. comprehension, understanding and knowing D. polysemy, homograph and homophone 3. Affixes attached to other morphemes to create new words are known as _________.（　　　） A. inflectional affixes B. derivational affixes C. bound roots D. free morphemes 4. Ambiguity often arises due to polysemy and _________.（　　　） A. synonymy B. antonymy C. homonymy D. hyponymy 5. The semantic unity of idioms is reflected in the _________ relationship between the literal meaning of each word and the meaning of the idiom as in “rain cats and dogs”.（　　　） A. illogical B. logical C. mutual D. natural 6. Idioms verbal in nature are _________.（　　　） A. verb phrases B. phrasal verbs C. verb idioms D. all the above 7. The idiom “new brooms sweep clean” was created probably by _________.（　　　） A. seamen B. housewives C. farmers D. hunters 8. The following are all denominal suffixes EXCEPT _________.（　　　） A. –ful B. –wise C. –less D. –ike 9. Both English and _________ belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.（　　　） A. Celtic B. Dansih C. French D. Scottish 10. Chiefly found in derived words, bound morphemes include _________.（　　　） A. bound roots B. inflectional affixes C. derivational affixes D. all the above 11. Motivation accounts for the connection between the word-form and _________.（　　　） A. its refe