浙江省2007年7月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题 .pdf

浙江省2007年7⽉⾼等教育⾃学考试 英语词汇学试题 课程代码：10059 I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (15%, 1 point for each) 1．Which of the following is NOT true? 【】 A ．A word is the smallest form of a language. B. A word is a sound unit. C. A word has a given meaning. D. A word can be used freely in a sentence. 2. In the Eastern Set, _____ and _____ are each the only modern language respectively. 【】 A ．Italic/Germanic B. Albanian/American C. Celtic/Hellenic D. Balto-Slavic/Indo-Iranian 3. Modern English began with the establishment of _____ in English. 【】 A ．printing B. Bourgeois Revolution C. Industrial Revolution D. the Renaissance 4. Words involved in conversion are mainly 【】 A ．nouns, verbs and adverbs B. nouns, adjectives and verbs C. nouns, prepositions and verbs D. adjectives, adverbs and verbs 5．Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not possess all the qualities a noun does. They must be used together with 【】 A ．plural forms B. single forms C. adjectives D. definite articles 6．Back-formation usually involves _____ types of words. 【】 A ．3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 2 7.Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: _____, semantic change and _____. 【】 A ． exchange/conversion B. compounding/borrowing C. creation/borrowing D. suffixation/creation 8.Nouns converted from adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as 【】 A ．partial conversion B. full conversion C. functional shift D. grammatical shift 9. English words can be motivated 【】 A ．phonologically B. morphologically C. etymologically D. All the above 10. CED (1995) is noted for 【】 A ．18000 multi-character entries including catch phrases, sayings and proverbs B. more faithful English equivalents for the Chinese items C. abundant usage examples D. All of the above 11. _____ is not a characteristic of basic wo