2014年10月自考00832英语词汇学试题及答案含解析

英语词汇学年月真题

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1、【单选题】Ofallthecharacteristicslistedforthebasicwordstockthemost

importantis____.

allnationalcharacter

collocability

A:

stability

B:

productivity

C:

答D:案：A

2、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingwordsisNOToneofthealiens?

Kowtow.

Bazaar.

A:

Mothertongue.

B:

Statusquo.

C:

答D:案：C

3、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingstatementsisNOTtrue?

Awordisthesmallestformofalanguage.

Awordisasoundunity.

A:

Awordhasagivenmeaning.

B:

Awordcanbeusedfreelyinasentence.

C:

答D:案：A

4、【单选题】Thelanguageusedbetween1150and____iscalledMiddleEnglish.

1250

1500

A:

1850

B:

1700

C:

答D:案：B

5、【单选题】ThefiveRomancelanguages,namely,Portuguese,Spanish,French,

Italian,RoumanianallbelongtotheItalicthroughanintermediatelanguage

called____.

Latin

Greek

A:

Russian

B:

Spanish

C:

答D:案：A

解析：罗曼语族的五种语言：葡萄牙语，西班牙语，法语，意大利语和罗马尼亚语都通过

拉丁语这一中间语言转变为了意大利语族。

6、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingwordsdoesNOTbelongtothewordsofFrench

origin?

Skirt.

State.

A:

Roast.

B:

Crime.

C:

答D:案：A

7、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingwordsdoesNOThaveasuffix?

Northward.

Snowy.

A:

Happy.

B:

Worker.

C:

答D:案：C

8、【单选题】Derivationalaffixesareaffixesaddedtoothermorphemestocreate

newwords.WhichofthefollowingwordsdoesNOThaveaderivationalaffix?

Reread.

Prewar.

A:

Postwar.

B:

Postcard.

C:

答D:案：D

9、【单选题】Howmanyfreemorphemicwordsarethereinthefollowingwords:

wind,man,reddish,collection?

1

2

A:

3

B:

C:

4

答D:案：B

解析：根据定义“Freemorphemeshavecompletemeaningsinthemselvesandcanbe

usedasfreegrammaticalunitsinsentences.Theyareidenticalwith

rootwords.”，可知wind和man两个词属于freemorphemicword，而reddish和

collection均带有后缀。

10、【单选题】Whichofthefollowingwordscontainsanumberprefix?

Amoral.

Disunite.

A:

Antiwar.

B:

Bicycle.

C:

答D:案：D

解析：bi-就是numberprefix。

11、【单选题】Whichofthefollowingwordsisanexampleofblending?

Smog.

Sandwich.

A:

Quake.

B:

NATO.

C:

答D:案：A

解析：Smog为混合词汇。

12、【单选题】Theverbalphrase“falldown”canbeturnedintoanouncompound

as____.

fallingdown

downfall

A:

fall-down

B:

fallen-down

C:

答D:案：B

13、【单选题】ThefollowingwordsareonomatopoeticallymotivatedwordsEXCEPT

____.

bang

A:

miniskirt

quack

B:

hiss

C:

答D:案：B

14、【单选题】Theword“mother”isoftenassociatedwith“love”，“care”，

“tenderness”，“forgiving”，etc.Inthissense,theword“mother”conveys

____.

connotativemeaning

stylisticmeaning

A:

affectivemeaning

B:

collocativemeaning

C:

答D:案：A

解析：在这个句子里，mother是内涵意思，并不是表面的母亲的意思，而是代表了爱，宽

容与关心。

15、【单选题】Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?

Collocationcannotaffectthemeaningofwords.

Unlikeconceptualmeaning,associativemeaningisunstableandindeterminate.

A:

Affectivemeaningindicatesthelistener^attitudetowardsthepersonorthingin

B:

question.

C:

Grammaticalmeaningreferstothepartofspeech,tensesofverbsandstylistic

featuresofwords.

D:

答案：B

16、【单选题】Wordsare____symbolsandindependentidentitiessofarastheir

outerfacet—spellingandpronunciation,isconcerned.

arbitrary

clear

A:

traditional

B:

cultural

C:

答D:案：A

17、【单选题】Whenawordwascreated,itwasendowedwithonlyonemeaning,

whichiscalledtheprimarymeaning.Whichofthefollowingistheprimarymeaning

oftheword“face”？

Asurfaceofathing.

Thetopography(ofanarea).

A:

Thefrontofthehead.

B:

Outwardaspect.

C:

答D:案：C

解析：题干中提到一个概念，就是primarymeaning，它指的是一个词的第一个意思，这个

概念是在谈论一词多义的演变过程。Face有很多含义，最原始的意思是“脸”。

18、【单选题】“Comprehend”and“understand”aresynonyms,but“understand”

isusedinamuchmoreextendedsensethan“comprehend”.Theaboveexampleshows

thereisdifferencein____betweennear-synonyms.

denotation

connotation

A:

application

B:

implication

C:

答D:案：A

19、【单选题】Word-meaningchangesbythefollowingmodesEXCEPT____.

narrowing

broadening

A:

transfer

B:

elevation

C:

答D:案：B

解析：Word-meaningchangesbymodesofextension,narrowing,degradation,

elevation,andtransfer.词义变换通过词义扩大，缩小，降级，升级和转移的方式。词

义扩大是Extension,不是broadening。

20、【单选题】Theword“journal”originallymeantmere“dailypaper”，but

nowhascometoincludeany“periodical”.Theaboveexamplereflectsonetypeof

changesinwordmeaning,thatis，____.

extension

narrowing

A:

degradation

B:

elevation

C:

答D:案：A

21、【单选题】Whichofthefollowingisoneofthelinguisticfactorsthatcause

thechangeofmeaning?

Socialclasses.

Scientificdiscovery.

A:

Psychologicalmotives.

B:

Analogy.

C:

答D:案：D

解析：类比的使用能够改变词义。

22、【单选题】Themeaningofawordmaybeinfluencedbythestructureinwhich

itoccurs.Thisiswhatwecall____context.

lexical

grammatical

A:

structural

B:

non-linguistic

C:

答D:案：B

解析：引起词汇变化的因素包括词汇因素和词汇外因素。该题中的structure即语法。

23、【单选题】Ambiguityoftenarisesdueto____，asisshowninthesentence

“Heisahardbusinessman"，inwhich“hard”canmeanboth“hardworking”and

“difficult”.

polysemy

homonymy

A:

synonymy

B:

antonymy

C:

答D:案：A

解析：歧义有时因为一词多意导致。

24、【单选题】Thecontextclueusedin“It’sjustonemoreincredibleresult

ofthedevelopmentofmicroprocessors—thosetinypartsofacomputercommonly

knownas‘siliconchip’”is____.

definition

explanation

A:

example

B:

C:

relevantdetails

答D:案：B

解析：这段话通过“诠释”的方式提供了猜测含义的线索。

25、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingisNOTonetypeoffiguresofspeech?

Addition.

Personification.

A:

Euphemism.

B:

Metaphor.

C:

答D:案：A

解析：A选项是增词法，不属于修辞。

26、【单选题】Whichofthefollowingrhetoricalfeaturescanbeseeninthe

idiom“bagandbaggage”？

Rhyme.

Alliteration.

A:

Juxtaposition.

B:

Synecdoche.

C:

答D:案：B

27、【单选题】Thechangeintheidiom“takeshortviews”fromtheoriginal

form“takelongviews”is____.

dismembering

position-shifting

A:

replacement

B:

shortening

C:

答D:案：C

28、【单选题】WhichofthefollowingisNOToneofthethreegoodgeneral

dictionaries?

LongmanDictionaryofContemporaryEnglish.

Webster'sThirdNewInternationalDictionary.

A:

AChinese-EnglishDictionary.

B:

CollinsCOBUILDEnglishLanguageDictionary.

C:

D:

答案：B

解析：《新韦氏国际英语大辞典》第三版不属于三大词典。主要字词的名称该题目并不

难，但很大程度考察了考生的记忆能力。

29、【单选题】Readerswillusuallyfindthefollowingareasofinformationofa

wordinageneraldictionaryEXCEPT____.

differencewithitssynonyms

definition

A:

pronunciation

B:

usage

C:

答D:案：A

30、【单选题】Americandictionariesgenerallyuse____tomarkthepronunciation.

BritishPhoneticAlphabet

AmericanPhoneticAlphabet

A:

InternationalPhoneticAlphabet

B:

Webster’sPhoneticAlphabet

C:

答D:案：D

解析：美国字典通常根据韦式语音字母表标记发音。

31、【问答题】Whatarethethreemainsourcesofnewwordsinpresent-day

Englishvocabulary?Matchthefollowingexpressionswiththethreesources

asexamples.“greenrevolution”，“fastfood’’，“thefourthworld”，“Mao

jackets”，“openheartsurgery”

答案：Generally,therearethreemainsourcesofnewwords:Therapid

developmentofmodernscienceandtechnology,e.g.greenrevolutionopenheart

surgery.Social,economicandpoliticalchanges,e.g.fastfood,thefourth

world.Theinfluenceofothereulturesandlanguages,e.g.Maojackets.

32、【问答题】a)Theynoweatbetterfood,liveinbetterhouses,andwear

betterclothesthaneverbefore,b)Theyarenowbetterfed,betterhoused,and

betterclothedthaneverbefore.Comparetheabovetwosentencesandexplainthe

effectofusingnounsasverbs.

答案：Asisoftenthecase.anouncanbeconvertedtoaverbwithoutany

change.Theuseoftheverbconvertedisbotheconomicalandvivid.

33、【问答题】Explainwhatispolysemyfromthediachronicpointofview.

答案：Fromthediachronicpointofview,polysemyisassumedtobetheresult

ofgrowthanddevelopmentofthesemanticstructureofoneandsameword.

Whenthewordwascreated,itwasendowedwithonlyonemeaning,whichis

calledtheprimarymeaning.With,thedevelopmentoftimeandlanguage,iftook

onmoreandmoremeanings,whicharecalledderivedmeanings.

34、【问答题】Whatdoestheunderlinedwordmeaninthefollowingsentenceand

whatcontextualclueisused?“Doyouknowthearchitect?HedesignedSt.

Paul’sCathedral.”

答案：Architectmeansapersonwhosejobisdesigningbuildings,etc.The

contextclueusedisexample.

35、【问答题】IwanttobeTV’s【czar】ofscriptandgrammar.“【Czar】”

intheabovesentenceisusedtobeapropernoun.Explainitsmeaninginrelation

toitsorigin.

答案：Theword"czar"referstotheemperorsofRussia,butitoriginatesfrom

theRomanEmperorCaesar.Nowitisusedtodenote"anyonewithgreat

orunlimitedpower","authority".Sointheabovesentence,thespeakerwants

tohavethesamepowerandauthorityintherealmofTVscriptandgrammar

asCaesardidintheRomanEmpire,impiyinghisdomineeringpersonality

andambitionr.

36、【问答题】Commentonthefollowinggroupsofwordsintermsoftypesof

antonyms:contradictoryterms,contraryterms,relativeterms.“same-

different”，“hot-cold”，“parent-child”

答案：Antonymscanbedefinedaswordswhichareoppositeinmeaning.Theycan

beclassifiedintothreemajorgroups.Contradictoryterms:Theyareso

opposedtoeachotherthattheyaremutuallyexclusiveandadmitnopossibility

betweenthem,suchas"same-different".

37、【填空题】Asfarastheoriginsofthewordsareconcerned,Englishwords

canbeclassifiedinto____wordsandborrowedwords.

答案：native

38、【填空题】IfwesaythatOldEnglishwasalanguageoffullendings,Middle

Englishwasoneof____endings.

答案：leveled

39、【填空题】Themorphemeisthe____functioningunitinthecompositionof

words.

答案：smallest

40、【填空题】“Bad-mouth”usedasaverbcantakethepasttensemarkere.g.

“Hebad-mouthedme.”Thisexampleshowsacompoundtendstoplayasingle____

roleinasentence.

答案：grammatical

41、【填空题】Insynonymouspairssuchas"die—passaway",“ask—

question”,eachpairhasthesame____butdifferentsocio-culturalandstylistic

values.

答案：concept

42、【填空题】Synchronically,____isviewedasthecoexistenceofvarious

meaningsofthesamewordinacertainhistoricalperiodoftime,say,Modem

English.

答案：polysemy

43、【填空题】Theword“garage”originallysimplymeant“anysafeplace