2023年10月自考00832英语词汇学试题及答案

2023 年 10 月高等教育自学考试

英语词汇学试题

课程代码:00832

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I . Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one

that best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on

the ANSWER SHEET.(1%X30=30%)

1. Chook is a word of _______, which means chicken.

A. American English

B.British English

C. Scottish English

D.Australian English

2. When dough and bread is used as a slang, it means_____.

A. money

B. head

C. drunk

D. cooking utensil

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. According to semanticists, a word is a unit of meaning.

B. According to grammarians, a word is a free form that can function in a sentence.

C. In visual terms, a word can be defined as a meaningful group of letters printed or written

horizontally across a piece of paper.
D. In terms of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or combination of sounds which

are made involuntarily with human vocal equipment.

4. Between 1250 and 1500, with Britain having trade relations with the low countries,

especially Holland, as many as 2,500 words of _______origin found their way into English.

A. French

B. Dutch

C. Latin

D.Scandinavian

5. Which of the following is the new word resulting from rapid growth of science and

technology in the English vocabulary?

A. fast food

B. TV dinner

C. moon walk

D.stir fry

6. The word denaturalization can be broken down into_minimal meaningful units.

A. four

B. five

C. six

D. seven

7. In the word internationalists, the root is__.

A. inter-

B. -nation-

C.-tion-

D.-s

8. The word antecedent can be broken down into________.

A. ante-,-ced-, -ent

B.ante-,-ce-,-dent

C. an-,-te-,-ced-,-ent

D.an-,-te-,-ce-,-dent

9. Of the following words, the word“_____” does NOT have a derivational prefix.
A. prewar

B. subsea

C.contradict

D. handcuff

10. The formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class is called

__.

A. affixation

B. functional shift

C.compounding

D. phrase clipping

11. The majority of prefixes are characterized by their non-class-changing nature. Accordingly,

we shall classify prefixes on a_____basis.

A. morphemic

B. morphologic

C. syntactic

D.semantic

12. Of the following words, the word“_____”is NOT a deverbal noun formed by suffixation.

A. decision

B. friendship

C.existence

D. protection

13. The meanings of many words often relate directly to their origins. Such words have_____

motivation.

A. onomatopoeic

B. morphological

C.semantic

D.etymological

14.The_meaning is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of

word-meaning.

A. grammatical
B. affective

C. conceptual

D. associative

15. The word home, whose conceptual meaning is a “dwelling place”, reminds readers of

their “family, friends, warmth, safety”, etc. This shows the__meaning of a word.

A. connotative

B. stylistic

C. affective

D. collocative

16. The primary meaning of the word neck is_____.

A. that part of the garment

B. the narrowest part of anything: bottle, land or channel

C. that part of man or animal joining the head to the body

D. a narrow part between the head and body or base of any object

17. Which of the following pairs of antonyms belongs to contradictory terms?

A. hot / warm

B. sell/ buy

C. husband / wife

D.true / false

18. The pair of words flower /rose shows such a sense relation as_____.

A. polysemy

B. synonymy

C. antonymy

D. hyponymy

19. The word butcher began with the meaning of “one who kills goats”, but now it means

“one who kills animals”. This process is called____.

A. extension

B. narrowing

C.elevation

D. degradation
20. Which of the following words is an example of narrowing of word-meaning?

A. disease (meaning: discomfort → illness)

B. journal (meaning: daily paper→periodical)

C. knight (meaning: servant→ rank below baronet)

D. company (meaning: one who shares bread→ a company)

21. From which of the following examples can we see transfer of sensations?

A. the lip of a wound

B. the hope of a family

C. pitiful and doubtful

D.sweet music

22. Which of the following statements is NOT true about lexical context?

A. It is one type of extra-linguistic context.

B. It may provide clues for inferring word meaning.

C. It refers to the words that occur together with the word in question.

D. The meaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighbouring words.

23. What does the word quick mean in the following context?

John, one of the group, has just told a joke. Everyone laughs except Adam. Then Adam

laughs. One of the students says: I do think Adam’s quick.

A. Quick in development.

B. Quick to hear the joke.

C. Slow in learning things.

D. Slow to understand the joke.

24.What does the word do mean in the phrase do the flowers?

A. work out

B. brush

C.arrange

D.study

25.Which of the following is an idiom?

A. Till the cows come home.

B. Till the sheep come home.
C. Till the horses come home.

D. Till the pigeons come home.

26.Which of the following is NOT a variation of idiom?

A. synecdoche

B. replacement

C.dismembering

D. shortening

27. As cool as a cucumber is a_____.

A. true Idiom

B. complete idiom

C.semi-idiom

D. regular combination

28. Chop and change is an idiom ______in nature .

A. verbal

B. nominal

C. adjectival

D. adverbial

29. Collins COBUILD English Usage is a(n)______.

A. unbridged dictionary

B. desk dictionary

C. pocket dictionary

D. specialized dictionary

30. Which of the following is NOT usually included in the usage section of a dictionary?

A. style

B. usage level

C. definition

D.colouring

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II. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions on the ANSWER

SHEET according to the course book.(1.5%X10=15%)

31. A(n)____is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and

syntactic function.

32.Modern English began with the establishment of____in England.

33. A(n)____can be defined as a form to which affixes of any kind can be added, as is seen

in agree, disagree, and disagreement.

34.Words formed from initial letters but pronounced as a normal word, for example radar

(radio detecting and ranging), is called____.

35. Affective meaning indicates the speaker’s ___towards the person or thing in question.

36. From the synchronic point of view, polysemy is viewed as the __of various meanings

of the same word in a certain historical period of time.

37. The original meaning of the word angel was “messenger”, but now has been ______ to

mean “messenger of God”.

38. Context is very important for the understanding of word-meaning because the meaning

is influenced immediately by the ___context, and in many cases by the whole speech situation

as well.

39. By grammatical functions, idioms can be classified into idioms nominal in nature, idioms

adjectival in nature, idioms verbal in nature, idioms adverbial in nature and_______idioms.

40. There are two types of dictionaries: linguistic dictionaries and______dictionaries.

III. Define the following terms on the ANSWER SHEET. (3%X5=15%)

41. neologism

42. affixes

43. motivation
44. elevation (a type of word-meaning changes)

45. idioms adverbial in nature

IV. Answer the following questions on the ANSWER SHEET. Your answers should be clear

and short.(5%X4=20%)

46.What is the role of borrowing in the development of modern English vocabulary?

47. What is clipping? Point out the words that are formed by clipping from the following: beg,

phone, pop, chunnel, flu, telex.

48. What are the major sources of English synonyms? Match the source with the following

examples: decide / make up one’s mind, job / gig, help / aid, lie / distort the fact.

49. Guess the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence and tell what

contextual clue helps you reach the understanding.

He was in a mood of complete euphoria, his happiness being the result ofan announcement

that he had won the sweepstakes.

V. Analyze and comment on the following on the ANSWER SHEET.(10%X2=20%)

50. Explain the means of word-formation by using the following example words: motel, sitcom,

medicare and workfare.

51. Illustrate the rhetoric use of homonyms by using the following example.

“On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you.”(the remark made by a

London worker on one Sunday morning when he saw groups of the so-called pious

gentlemen and ladies entering the church for prayer)