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2012 年7 月英语词汇学自考试题 全国2012 年7 月英语词汇学自考试题 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. Words can be classified into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______. ( ) A. use frequency B. notion C. origin D. grammar 2. In formal use, “pot” means “cooking utensil”. Whereas, when it means “marijuana”, it is a ______. ( ) A. jargon B. terminology C. slang D. argot 3. Translation-loans are words and expressions formed from the existing material in the English language but modelled on the patterns taken from another language. For example, the English expression “long time no see” is from ______. ( ) A. Latin B. Chinese C. Greek D. French 4. The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European 1 Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as ______ languages. ( ) A. Hellenic B. Albanian C. CelticD. Scandinavian 5. Which of the following is NOT the main source of new words? ( ) A. The rapid development of modern science and technology. B. Social, economic and political changes. C. Environmental protection. D. The influence of other cultures and languages. 6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( ) A. In modern times ，borrowing brings less than ten percent of modern English vocabulary. B. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian. C. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present-day English is creation of new words by means of word-formation. D. In early Middle English period，English，Latin，and Celtic existed side by side. 7. There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words ：worker, car, impossibl