【真题】2024年4月自考00832英语词汇学试题

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2024年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一考试

英语词汇学

(课程代码 00832)

注意事项:
1.本试卷分为两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。
2.应考者必须按试题顺序在答题卡(纸)指定位置上作答，答在试卷上无效。
3.涂写部分必须使用 2B铅笔，书写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔。

第一部分 选择题

一、单项选择题:本大题共30小题，每小题1分，共30分。在每小题列出的四个选项中选择一个最佳选项，并在答题卡相应位置上将该项涂黑。

1. The English language has vast debts, In any dictionary some________of the entries are borrowed.
A.60%
C.80%
B.70%
D.90%

2. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. A word is the smallest form from a language.
B. A word is a sound unity.
C. A word has a given mcaning.
D. A word can be used freely in a sentence.

3. There are two approaches to the study ofpolysemy. They are________.
A. primary and secondary
B. central and peripheral
C. diachronic and synchronic
D. formal and functional

4. Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of idioms?
A. Colloquial
B. Slang
C.Negative
D. Literary

5. Synonyis can be classified into two major groups, that is:________.
A. absolute and relative
B. absolute and complete
C. relative and near
D. complete and identical

6. In the early period of Middle English, English,________existed side by side.
A.Celtic and Danish
B.Danish and French
C.Latin and Celtic
D.French and Latin

7. A monomorphemic word is a word that consists of a single________morpheme.
A.formal
B.concrete
C.free
D. bound

8. In Old English there was________agreement between sound form.
A.more
B. ittle
C.less gradnal
D.partial

9. Both LDCE and CCELD are________.
A.general dictionaries
B.monolingual dictionaries
C.both A and B
D.neither Aor B

10. The differences between sound and form are not due to________.
A.the fact ofmore phonemes than letters in English
B. stabilization of spelling by printing
C. influence of the work ofscribe
D. innovations made by linguistic:

11. The word “miniskirt” is________.
A.etymologically motivated
B.morphologically motivated
C.semantically motivated
D.none of the above

12. The most important way of vocabulary development in present-day English is________.
A. borrowing
B. scmantic change
C. creation ofnew words
D. all the above

13. lftwo main constituents of an idiom share the same initial sound, it is called________.
A. repetition
B. alliteration
C.rbyme
D. none ofthe above

14.Which ofthe following words is a functional word?
A. Ofen
B. Never
C. Desk
D. Although

15. Ofthe five characteristics listed for the basie word stock, the most imporlant is________.
A. all national character
B. productivity
C.polysemy
D.collocability

16. Rhetorical features are shown in such respects of phonetic and lexical manipulation as well as________.
A. semantic unity
B. structural stability
C.idiomatic variation
D.figure ofspeech

17. The advantage ofclassifying idioms according to grammatical fuctions is to________.
A. use idioms correctly and appropriately
B. understand idioms correctly
C.remember idioms quickly
D. try a new method of classification

18. Borrowing as a source of homonymy in English can be illustrated bry________.
A. long(not short)
B. ball (a dancing party)
C.rock(rock ‘n’roll)
D. ad(advertisement)

19. The change of word meaning is brought about by the following intemal factors EXCEPT________.
A. the infhux of borrowing
B. repetition
C.analogy
D. shortening

20. Which of the following is NOT a component of linguistic context?
A. Words and phrases
B. Sentences
C. Text or passage
D. Time and place

21. The word “humorousness” has________morphemes.
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four

22. Most English words are________symbols.
A. definite
B. arbitrary
C.infinite
D. hereditary

23. From the point of view of________,a direct counection between the symbol and its sense can be readily observed in a small group of words.
A. nationalism
B. anthropology
C. linguistics
D. motivation

24. Words motivated phonetically are called________words.
A. onomatopoeic
B. similar
C. natural
D. symbolic

25. In the sentence “John was asked to spy the enemy”, “spy” is considered an example of the word-formation process using________.
A.compounding
B. derivation
C.conversion
D. acromym

26. The word “’salary”” used to mean “a sum of money given to Roman soldiers to enable themto buy salt”, and now it refers to “”fixed payment made by employer at regular intervals toa person doing other than manual work”, This is an example of________meaning.
A. extension
C. degeneration
B. narrowing
D. elevation

27. The word “‘starve” used to mean “to die”, and now it refers to “to die of hunger”. This is an example of________ofmeaning.
A. extension
B. restriction
C. degeneration
D， elevation

28. The Renaissance brought great changes to the English vocabulary________.
A. fom 1100 to 1500 AD
B. fom 1500 t0 1700 AD
C. fom 450 to 1100 AD
D. from 1700 to 1900 AD

29. The transitional period from Old English to Modern English is known as________.
A. Ancient English
B. Primordial English
C. Contemporary English
D. Middle English

30. The word “tear” meaning “the drop of salty water from the cye” and the word “tear” meaning “’to pull sharply apart” are called a pair of________.
A. homopbones
B. perfect bomonyms
C. homographs
D. polysemous words

第二部分 非选择题

二、填空题:本大题共 10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分。根据课文内容，在空白处填入适当的单词或短语。将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。

31. Morphology is the branchi of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, prirarily through the use of________construet.

32.Etymology is traditionally used for the study of the________and history of the form and meaning of words.

33.There are generally two approaches to the study of words, namely synchronic and________.

34. The symbolic connection between sound and meaning of words is always________, and there is no logic relationship between them.

35. Moderm English is derived from the languages of carly________tribes with a fhirly small vocabulary.

36 As far as the origins of the words are concerned, English words can be classified intc native words and________words.

37. It is assumed that the world has approximately 3,000 languages, which can be grouped into roughly________language families on the basis of similarities in their basic wordstock and grammar.

38. If we say that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of________endings.

39. In the period of Modem English, over 1000 new words entered the English language,many of which were taken from________and Greek.

40. There are two types of morphemes, free morphemes and________morphemes.

三、解释题:本大题共5小题，每小题3分，共15分。用英文解释以下术语，将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。

41. semantics
42. content words
43. grammatical meaning
44. synonyms
45. motivation

四、问答题:本大题共4小题，每小题5分，共20分。用英文回答以下问题，将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。

46.将(a)组中的术语与(b)组中的例子进行配对。
(a) free morpheme; bound root; prefix; stem; inflectional affix
(b) desks; pre-; man; -diet-; mouthful

47.写出下列词语的简写。
Pop music; fanatic; telephone; memorandum; refrigcrator

48. What are the four points that the definition of a word comprise?

49, What are the three major groups ofantonyms? Please give examples to illustrate them.

五、分析和评论:本大题共2小题，每小题10分，共20分。对下列内容进行分析和评论，将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。

50. What is the fundamental difference between the process ofradiation and concatenation? Please illustrate your point by analyzing the senses ofneck and candidate:

Neck: (1) that part of man or animal jointing the head to the body, (2) that part of the
          garment, (3) the neck of an animal used as food; (4) a narrow part between thehead and body or base            of any object, e.g.the neck of a violin; (5) the narrowest ofanything: bottle, land, etc.

         Candidate: (1) white-robed, (2) ofce seeker in white gowns; (3) a person who seeks office; (4) a person                              proposed for a place, award

51. Study the following conversation and explain the rhetoric use ofhomonym:
A: Wbat color would you paint the sun and the wind?
B: The sun rose and wind blue.