2003年4月甘肃自考10059英语词汇学真题试卷

全国2003年4月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码：10059

一、选择填空(请在下列各句下挑选一项正确的答案，使句子结构完整，意思正确。将其代码写在题后的括号内。每小题2分，共30分)

1.There are generally two approaches to the study of words,namely synchronic and ______.( )

A.dynamic B.paradigmatic

C.diachronic D.syntagmatic

2.______ was a highly inflected language.( )

A.English B.Old English

C.Middle English D.Modern English

3.The popular method of classifying English morphemes is to group them into ______ morphemes and ______ morphemes.( )

A.derivational,inflectional

B.free,bound

C.free,inflectional

D.root,bound

4.One of the variants that realize a morpheme is known as ______.( )

A.a monomorpheme B.an allomorp

C.a bound morpheme D.a free morpheme

5.The chief function of prefixation is to change ______.( ) A.the part of speech of the stem

B.the meaning of the stem

C.the grammatical function of the stem

D.the collocation of the stem

6.“Dorm” is a ______.( )

A.converted word

B.word produced through back formation

C.clipped word

D.blend

7.______ meaning refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships.( )

A.Lexical B.Conceptual

C.Associative D.Grammatical

8.In ______ the derived meanings are directly connected to the ______ meaning.( )

A.concatenation,central

B.radiation,primary

C.radiation,secondary

D.concatenation,associative

9.Compared with the English word “encourage”,the word “instigate” has a ___ meaning.( )

A.positive B.appreciative

C.neutral D.pejorative

10.“Silly” meant “happy” in Old English,but now it means “foolish”.This code of wordmeaning change is ______.( )

A.elevation B.narrowing

C.transfer D.degradation

11.In radiation,the secondary meaning of a word is derived from the primary meaning of a word by ______.( )

A.extension B.specialization

C.transfer D.all the above

12.In ______ context,the meaning of the word is often affected by the ______ words.( )

A.grammatical,neighbouring

B.lexical,lexical

C.linguistic,lexical

D.lexical,neighbouring

13.In a broad sense,idioms may include ______.( )

A.slang expression B.colloquialisms

C.catchphrases D.all the above

14.“The birds sing to welcome the smiling year” is an example of ______.( )

A.euphemism B.personification

C.metonymy D.metaphor

15.______ dictionaries aim at defining words and explaining their usages in the language.( )

A.Encyclopedic B.Monolingual

C.Linguistic D.Bilingual

二、完型填空(请在下面一段文字后的各选项中，挑选一项正确的答案，将代码填入题前的括号内。使短文结构完整，意思正确。每小题1分，共10分)

Generally speaking,the (1) of “meaning” is perhaps what is termed “sense”.Unlike (2),“sense” denotes the relationship (3) the language.The sense of an expression is its place in a system of (4) relationships with other expression in the (5).Since the sense of (6) is not a thing,it is often (7) to say what sort of (8) it is.It is also (9).Every word that has meaning has (10) and not every word has reference.

1.( ) A.concept B.symbol C.sign D.meaning

2.( ) A.reference B.motivation C.concept D.meaning

3.( ) A.besides B.outside C.inside D.beyond

4.( ) A.linguistic B.grammatical C.semantic D.lexical

5.( ) A.language B.speech C.vocabulary D.lexicon

6.( ) A.an explanation B.an expression C.a translation D.a discussion

7.( ) A.easy B.difficult C.simple D.reasonable

8.( ) A.identity B.function C.personality D.position

9.( ) A.a concept B.a combination C.a relationship D.an abstraction

10.( ) A.motivation B.connection C.reference D.sense

三、是非判断(判断下列句子是对还是错。在对的句子前面的括弧内写“T”，在错的句子前面的括弧内写“F”。每小题1分，共10分)

1.( )Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little change in word endings.

2.( )The introduction of printing into English marked the beginning of Modern English period.

3.( )The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of the stems.

4.( )An alternative for conversion is functional shift.

5.( )Collocation can affect the meaning of words.

6.( )Most homonyms are words that are the same in spelling,but differ in sound and meaning.

7.( )Words which have opposite meanings are called antonyms.

8.( )If a word has synonyms,naturally it has antonyms.

9.( )Idioms are characterized by terseness,expressiveness and vividness.

10.( )Semantic unity and structural stability are general features of idioms,but there are many exceptions.

四、术语解释(25分)

A.术语填空(在下面句子的空格中填上恰当的名词术语。每小题2分，共10分)

1.______ are words of Anglo-Saxon origin.

2.______ are independent of other morphemes.These morphemes have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as free grammatical units in sentences.

3.The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word is known as ______.

4.By means of ______,a speaker indicates which things in the world(including persons) are being talked about.

5.______ refers to the physical situation.It embraces the people,time,place,and even the whole cultural background.

B.术语定义(写出下列术语的定义。每小题3分，共15分)

1.borrowed words.

2.stem

3.prefixation

4.collocative meaning

5.elevation of meaning

五、简答题(对下面的问题做简要回答，每小题5分，共15分)

1.How do we usually classify affixation?

2.What are the differences between radiation and concatenation?

3.What are the causes of ambiguity?

六、分析题(在下面两题中任选一题作分析论述，10分)

1.For many years,I looked here and there to try to find a necklace that looked the same as the lost one,but failed to find it.

Pick out the idiom in the sentence.Then point out its structure,grammatical functions,and rhetorical features.

2.Point out the types of word formation of the three given words and analyze the morphemes of the first two.

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