2020年4月全国英语词汇学自考试题及答案解析

1、精品自学考试资料推荐全国 2019 年 4 月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题课程代码： 00832I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one thatwould best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)1. There are _ major classes of compounds.A. twoB. forC. threeD. five2. Which of the f

2、ollowing statements is NOT true?A. Connotative meaning refers to associations suggested by the conceptual meaning.B. Stylistic meaning accounts for the formality of the word concerned.C. Affective meaning is universal to all men alike.D. Denotative meaning can always be found in the dictionary.3. Af

3、ter the invading Germanic tribes settled down in Britain, their language almost totally blotted out _.A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Anglo-SaxonD. Celtic4. The idiom“ Jack of all trades” results from _.A. additionB. position-shiftingC. dismemberingD. shortening5. _ are those that cannot occur as

4、separate words without adding other morphemes.A. Free rootsB. Free morphemesC. Bound morphemesD. Meaningful units6. The major factors that promote the growth of modern English are _. A. the growth of science and technologyB. economic and political changesC. the influence of other cultures and langua

5、ges D. all the above7. Sincethe beginning of this century, _ has become even more important for the expansionof English vocabulary.A. word-formationB. borrowingC. semantic changeD. both B and C8. Which of the following characteristics of the basic word stock is the most important?A. StabilityB. Coll

6、ocability.C. Productivity.D. National character.1精品自学考试资料推荐9. The two major factors that cause changes in meaning are _. A. historical reason and class reasonB. historical reason and psychological reason C. class reason and psychological reason D. extra-linguistic factors and linguistic factors10. T

7、he fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is whether _. A. they come from the same sourceB. they are correlated with one central meaningC. they are listed under one headword in a dictionary D. all the above11. Degradation of meaning is the opposite of _.A. semantic transferB. semant

8、ic pejorationC. semantic elevationD. semantic narrowing12.An idiom consists of at least two words.Each has a single meaning and often functions as oneword. This is called _.A. semantic unityB. structural stabilityC. rhetorical functionD. none of the above13.Which of the following suffixes can be use

9、d to form both nouns and adjectives? _A. -ion.B. -ism.C. -ity.D. -ist.14.More often than not, functional words only have _.A. lexical meaningB. associative meaningC. collocative meaningD. grammatical meaning15.Linguistic context is also known as _ context.A. socialB. verbalC. lexicalD. physicalII. C

10、omplete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. (10%)16. In the course book, the idioms are classified according to _ functions.17. Linguistic context can be further divided into _ context and grammatical context.18. The _ languages made only a small c

11、ontribution to theEnglish vocabulary with afewplace names like Avon, kent, Themes.19. Morphemes which are identical with root words are considered to be _.20. According to semanticists, a word is a unit of _.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) styli

12、stic meanings; 2)language groups; 3)degrees of inflections and 4) onomatopoeic motivation. (10%)AB2精品自学考试资料推荐()21. apesA. colloquial()22. Old EnglishB. a language of full endings()23. IrishC. Italic()24. tinyD. very formal and official()25. FrenchE. yelp()26. cattleF. poetic()27. domicileG. Celtic()

13、28. abodeH. gibber()29. foxesI. a language of leveled endings()30. Middle EnglishJ. low . Study the following words and expressions and identify 1) types of affixes; 2) types ofmeaning and 3) types of motivation. (10%)31. mismanage()32. elephants-trumpet()girl33. pretty woman()flower34. forehead()35

14、. bossy()36. sun: a heavenly body which gives off light, heat()37. anti-establishment()38. subsea()39. a sea of troubles()40. harder() . Define the following terms. (10%)41. idiom42. functional words43. degradation44. bilingual dictionary45. conversion . Answer the following questions.Your answers s

15、hould be clear and short.Write youranswers in the space given below. (12%)46. What factors should one take into account when he chooses a dictionary?47. What are the features of compounds? Give examples.48. Cite ONE example to illustrate what grammatical meaning is. . Analyze and comment on the following.Write your answers in the space given below.3精品自学考试资料推荐(18%)49. Read the following extract and try to guess the meaning of the word in italics.Then explainwhat contextual clues help you work out the meaning. Get me an avocado, please,Janet said, smacking her lips, but her