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自考《英语词汇学》模拟试卷(1)

自考《英语词汇学》模拟试卷(1)



I. Complete the following statement or passage with proper
expressions. (每题1分,共10分)
1. Archaisms are words no longer in _________ use or _______ in
use.
2. A word whose meaning was borrowed from another language is
called _________.
3. The Indo - European language is made up of most of the
languages of _____; _______; _____.
4. A bound root is that part of the word that carries the _______
meaning just like a ________. In English, bound roots are either
_______ or _________.
5. Affixes are forms that are ________ to words or word elements
to modify meaning or function. We can put them into two groups:
________ and ________.
6. The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly
on ______. The most productive are _________, ________ and ________.
7. A compound is a unit consisting of more than one stem and
functioning both ________ and ______ as a single word.
8. When a word is first coined, it is always ______. But in the
course of development, the same symbol must be used to express more
meanings, the result is ________.
9. Synonyms can be defined as one of two or more words in the
English language which have the same or very nearly the same _______
meaning.
10. Synonyms can be classified into two major groups: ________ and
_________.
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
(每题1分,共10分)
1. Old English was a highly inflected language. ( )
2. Modern English is considered to be an analytic language. ( )
3. The most important mode of vocabulary development in present -
day English is creation of new words by means of word formation. ( )
4. Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words
but with little change in word endings. ( )
5. The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of the
stems. ( )
6. A compound functions as a single grammatical unit, so the
internal structure can not be changed. ( )
7. Such words as the poorer, the departed, a Republican are all
examples of partial conversion. ( )
8. Words mainly involved in conversion are nouns, verbs and
adverbs. ( )
9. Semantic unity and structural stability are general features of
idioms, but ther

e are many exceptions. ( )
10. Idioms are characterized by terseness, expressiveness and
vividness. ( )
III. Fill in each bland with a word contrary in meaning to the
word given in the bracket. (每题2分,共20分)
1. Beads and shells are ________ forms of money. (modern)
2. I have finished all the exercises, I am ______ done. (partly)
3. On a humid day, there is a lot of ________ in the air.
(dryness)
4. Mosquitoes won't bite just anyone. They look for someone
________. (ordinary)
5. If you want to drive, it is ______ to have a driver's license.
(unnecessary)
6. There is a great _____ in our political beliefs. We agree on
most things. (difference)
7. The man said, "I am ________. I didn't do it!" (guilty)
8. The soldier stood in a ______ position while the general walked
past him. (relaxed)
9. You will have to ______ the string in order to open the box.
(tighten)
10. No one lives in that ______ house. (inhabited)
IV. Explain the following terms: (每题5分,共20分)
1. word
2. affixes
3. concept
4. hyponymy
V. Fill in the blanks with the following verbal phrases in their
suitable forms: (每题1分,共20分)
take on; break into; bite into ; go about; let out; draw up; set
down; hold on to; bring up; make out; dry up; put out; live through;
set off; call for; tear apart; buy off; build in; count on; sink in
1. 1848 was a year of revolution in Europe; Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels published the Communist Manifesto, and political
demonstration ______ the great cities of Paris, Vienna, Naples and
Berlin.
2. With liberal doses of calomel, rhubarb and castor oil, he
slowly improved, and after three weeks, he ______ his trousers and
was eager to escape from his bed.
3. He travelled to foundling homes, prisons and lunatic asylums in
his search for people.
4. We ________ at top speed through the narrow streets of
Hiroshima.
5. I was just about to make my little bow of assent, when the
meaning of these last words _______, jolting me out of my sad
reverie.
6. No one talks about it any more, and no one wants to,
especially, the people who were born here or who ______

it.
7. During dinner Mr. Churchill said that a German attack on Russia
was now certain, and he thought that Hitler was ______ enlisting
capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U. S.
A.
8. My husband and I find strong smoke offensive. Would you kindly
_______ that _______?
9. Assuming the hotel man was ______, their only chance - a slim
one - lay in removing the car quickly.
10. When railroads began ______ the demand for steamboat pilots
and the Civil War halted commerce, Mark Twain left the country.
11. By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1500
people had _______ a circus.
12. Among them was John Butler, who had _______ the anti -
evolution law.
13. Then the court ______ a storm of applause that surpassed that
for Bryan.
14. The first - and essential - step in the study of any language
is observing and ______ precisely what happens when native speakers
speak it.
15. By 1976, the slump had begun to _______ the bulk - carrier
trade.
16. The key tactic behind its strategy of _______ the richest
slice of the trade has been to move up - market - to go where the
Third World cannot follow into high - technology investment.
17. Sailors and officers ______ their chores as usual on these
ships, amid piping and loudspeaker squawks.
18. Mr. Hopkins has _______ your name. He appears impressed, and
the President too, by your expertise on landing craft and so forth.
19. He _________ a Southern war whoop. In a flash, John, Mckean
and Franklin crowded around him.
20. Mr. Jefferson, I can't quite ________ what it is you're
talking about.
VI. Questions and answers: (每题10分,共20分)
1. What is extra - linguistic context?
2. What is back - formation?








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