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全国2010年7月高等教育自学考试—英语词汇学试题 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. As defined in terms of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or combination of sounds which are made voluntarily with human ______ equipment.（ ） A. visualB. vocal C. physical D. mental 2. Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.（ ） A. use frequency B. notion C. origin D. sound 3. ______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves. （ ） A. Terminology B. Archaisms C. Slang D. Jargon 4. Which of the following is NOT one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （ ） A. Creation. B. Semantic changes. C. Clipping. D. Borrowing. 5. Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.（ ） A.TV dinner B. earthrise C. moon walk D. space shuttle 6. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into the Eastern set and the _______ set. （ ） A. Western B. African C. American D. Northern 7. The plural morpheme -s is pronounced as/z/in the following words EXCEPT ______.（ ） A. beds B. bags C. cheats D. bottles 8. The word prisoner comprises ______ morphemes. （ ） A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 9. The following words have derivational affixes EXCEPT ______.（ ） A. reread B. prewar C. bloody D. harder 10. The prefix over- in the word overweight is a prefix of ______.（ ） A. orientation and attitude B. degree or size C. time and order D. number 11. The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes is called ______.（ ） A. back-formation B. acronymy C. conversion D. clipping 12. Champagne, a common noun, comes from a ______.（ ） A. name of a