英语词汇学自考题-17_真题-无答案

英语词汇学自考题-17 (总分100,考试时间90分钟)

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1. Lexicology is a branch of ______.A. language B. meaning C. linguistics D. etymology

2. Lexicology inquires into the ______ and meanings of words.A. relations B. disciplines C. origins D. development

3. English lexicology embraces other academic disciplines, such as ______, semantics, stylistics, etymology, lexicography.A. idioms B. grammar C. morpheme D. morphology

4. Morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, primarily through the use of ______ construct.A. word B. form C. morpheme D. root

5. Modern English is derived from the languages of early ______ tribes with a fairly small vocabulary.A. Germanic B. Pacific C. Roman D. Celtic

6. English lexicology deals with English ______.A. grammar B. vocabulary C. pronunciation D. spelling

7. Stylistics is the study of style. It is concerned with the user's choices of linguistic elements in a particular ______ for special effects.A. situation B. context C. time D. place

8. Lexicography shares with lexicology the same problems: the form, meaning, origins and usages of words, but they have a ______ difference.A. spelling B. semantic C. pronunciation D. pragmatic

9. Semantics is the study of meanings of different ______ levels: lexis, syntax, utterance, discourse, etc.A. linguistic B. grammatical C. arbitrary D. semantic

10. ______ is traditionally used for the study of the origins and history of the form and meaning of words. Semantics is the study of the meaning of words.A. Semantics B. Linguistics C. Etymology D. Stylistics

11. There are generally two approaches to the study of words, namely synchronic and ______.A. chronic B. realistic C. specific D. diachronic

12. The \"wife\" now means \"a married woman\only preserved in \"midwife\\"housewife\etc. This is from a ______ point of view.A. diachronic B. synchronic C. prescriptive D. descriptive

13. According to semanticists, a word is a unit of ______.A. sounds B. meaning C. form D. function

14. A word is a ______ that stands for something else in the world.A. symbol B. system C. structure D. pattern

15. A word is ______ of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.A. a smallest form B. a minimal free form C. a constituent form D. a separate part

16. We consider that the written form of a natural language is the written record of the ______ form.A. written B. practical C. oral D. grammatical

17. The reason for that more and more differences occur between sound and form is that the English alphabet was adopted from the ______.A. Pacifics B. Germanics C. Celtics D. Romans

18. In different languages, the same concept can be represented by ______ and the same sound can show ______.A. different sounds; different meanings B. same sounds; different meanings C. different sounds; same meanings D. same sounds; same meanings

19. The differences between sound and form are due to the following EXCEPT ______.A. the fact of more phonemes than letters in English B. stabilization of spelling by printing C. influence of the work of scribes D. innovations made by linguists

20. In old English sound and form are ______.A. different B. not the same C. consistent greatly D. inconsistent greatly

21. The pronunciation has changed ______ spelling over the years.A. more slowly than B. as quickly as C. more rapidly than D. not

so quickly as

22. In spite of the differences, at least ______ percent of the English words fit consistent spelling patterns.A. sixty B. seventy C. eighty D. ninety

23. The general estimate of the present-day English vocabulary is over ______ words.A. one billion B. two million C. two billion D. one million

24. If we classify English words by use frequency, the two types of words are ______.A. the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary B. content words and functional words C. native words and borrowed words D. functional words and notional words

25. Words can be classified according to the following criteria except ______.A. notion B. use frequency C. foundation D. origin

26. Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.A. use frequency B. notion C. origin D. stability

27. Words of the basic word stock denote the **mon things and phenomena of the world around us. Which of the following words is related to the natural phenomena?A. Father. B. Fire. C. Evil. D. Old.

28. Which of the following is not one of the obvious characteristics of the basic word stock? ______A. Creativity. B. Stability. C. Duality. D. All national character.

29. Words of the basic word stock can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and affixes, e.g. foot is the father of football, footage and footprint. This demonstrates that one of the characteristics of the words of the basic stock is ______.A. productivity B. polysemy C. stability D. collocability

30. ______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and **municate among themselves.A. Slang B. Argot C. Jargon D. Archaism

31. Nonbasic vocabulary includes ______.A. argot and jargon B. archaisms and neologisms C. technical terms D. all the above

32. Which category do the following words fall into: photoscanning, trigonometry, sonata and audiovisual?A. Neologism. B. Jargon. C. Terminology. D. Slang.

33. ______ belong to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words.A. Terminology B. Jargon C. Slang D. Argot

34. ______ are words or forms that were once in common use but are now restricted only to specialized or limited use.A. Neologisms B. Archaisms C. Jargons D. Terminologies

35. The expression \"can-opener\which means all-purpose key, belongs to ______.A. slangs B. terminologies C. argots D. archaisms

36. Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions. Which of the following is not an example of neologisms?A. SARS. B. Can-opener. C. Futurology. D. Freak out.

37. ______ are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.A. Argots B. Slangs C. Jargons D. Dialectal words

38. ______ constitute the main body of the English vocabulary.A. Functional words B. Content words C. Numerals D. Pronouns

39. Which types of words belong to functional words?A. Adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions. B. Adjectives, nouns, articles. C. Articles, prepositions, conjunctions. D. Verbs, pronouns, prepositions.

40. Which of the following is not content word?A. Five. B. And. C. Earth. D. Never.

41. Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as ______ words.A. functional B. notional C. empty D. formal

42. There are ______ functional words in the following sentence. It is fun to play with children.A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

43. \"I'm sure that they **e today.\"

There are ______ content words in the above sentence.A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

44. Native words have ______ features.A. two B. seven C. five D. six

45. Which are the features of native words?A. All national characters. B. Neutral in style. C. Frequent in use. D. All the above.

46. The words borrowed from French or Latin are mostly ______.A. colloquial B. informal C. formal D. slangy

47. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute ______ percent of the modern English

vocabulary.A. 60 B. 70 C. 80 D. 90

48. ______ are loan words that have naturalized or assimilated in English.A. Denizens B. Semantic-loans C. Translation-loans D. Aliens

49. Which of the following isn't the denizen? A. Port. B. Cup. C. D. Skirt.

50. Which of the following isn't the alien? A. B. Bazaar. C. Shift. D. Emir.

51. Which of the following doesn't belong to the translation-loans?A. Mother tongue. B. Long time no see. C. Black humour. D. Status quo.

52. The word \"kowtow\" in English is called an alien word because ______.A. it is a newly-created word from another language B. it has been assimilated into the English language C. it has undergone a semantic change D. it has retained its original pronunciation

53. Which of the following belongs to the semantic-loans?A. Change. B. Pork. C. Dream. D. Tea.