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[自学考试密押题库与答案解析]英语词汇学真题2012年04月 [自学考试密押题库与答案解析]英语词汇学真题2012年04月 PAGE1 / NUMPAGES1 [自学考试密押题库与答案解析]英语词汇学真题2012年04月 英语词汇学真题2012年04月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.问题:1. Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us. Which of the following, words is related to the natural phenomena?A.Father.B.Fire.C.Evil.D.Old.答案:B问题:2. The differences between sound and form are due to the following EXCEPT ______.A.the fact of more phonemes than letters in EnglishB.stabilization of spelling by printingC.influence of the work of scribesD.innovations made by linguists答案:D[解析] 声音和形式差别的形成有以下原因：(1)英语的字母表来自罗马语，因此不能用独立的字母来代替每一个音，一些音必须通过字母组合来表示；(2)随着时间的变化，发音比拼写的变化更大；(3)一些文字的声音和形式的差异是由早期的书记人员造成的；(4)从外来语中借词的影响。问题:3. There are ______ functional words in the following sentence: It is fun to play with children.A.3B.4C.5D.6答案:A问题:4. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups. Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Albanian belong to the ______ set.A.EasternB.SouthernC.WesternD.Northern答案:A[解析] 现存的语言主要分成8组，其中Balto-Slavic(波罗的-斯拉夫语系)，Indo-Iranian(印度-伊朗语系)，Armenian and Albanian(亚美尼亚和阿尔巴尼亚语系)为东部分支；Celtic(凯尔特语系)，Italic(意大利语系)，Hellenic(希腊语系)，Germanic(日耳曼语系)为西部分支。问题:5. With the growth of ______, British tentacles began stretching out to every corner of the globe, thus enabling English to absorb words from all major languages of the world.A.civilizationB.revolutionC.colonizationD.industrialization答案:C问题:6. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A.English is more closely related to German than French.B.Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.C.Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small q uantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.D.Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little cha