00832英语词汇学1207试题
全国2012 年7 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. 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 m”eans “ cookingutensil W”h.ereas, 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_f_ro.m( )
A. Latin
B. Chinese
C. Greek
D. French
4. The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic,
Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as _____ languages. ( )
A. Hellenic
B. Albanian
C. Celtic
D. 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. Collocative meaning .
D. Connotative meaning .
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, impossible ，anger, politely. ( )
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
8. There is/are ____ stem(s)in the word “ internationalists ” ( )
A 1
B. 2
C. 3
9. The past tense marker “ -ed ” is
pronounced as/t/in the following words EXCEPT _________________________________ .
( ) A.
enabled
B. worked
C. jumped
D. helped 10. The most productive ways of word-formation in modern English are the following EXCEPT . ( )
A. affixation
B. compounding
C. conversion
D. blending
11. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called ____ . ( )
C. front and back
D. phrase
13. The ____ meaning of words usually shows the attitude of approval of the speaker. (
) A. affective
B. appreciative
C. pejorative
D. connotative 14. Which of the following is NOT one of the associative meaning of a word? ( ) A. Grammatical meaning . B. Stylistic meaning .
D. 4
A. clipping
C. acronymy
12. The word “ popb ”elongs
to
A. front
B. compounding D. back-formation clipping. ( ) B. back