文档介绍：全国2008年4月高等教育自学考试
英语词汇学试题
课程代码:00832
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that pletes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)
1. Words fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by ______. ( )
A. use frequency B. notion
C. productivity D. origin
2. Words like bear, nut, knocked out can be categorized as ______. ( )
A. terminology B. jargon
C. slang D. neologisms
3. Identify the word that is of Scandinavian origin among the following. ( )
A. Skirt B. Dress
C. Model D. Status
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ( )
A. Old English was a highly inflected language.
B. Reviving archaic or obsolete words also contribute to the growth of English vocabulary
C. The word cloak is of French origin.
D. Modern English is a synthetic language.
5. The root of the word “antecedent” is ______. ( )
A. ante- B. -ced-
C. -dent D. -ent
a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains is called ______. ( )
A. blending B. clipping
C. acronymy D. back-formation
7. Associative meaning of prises the following except ______. ( )
A. connotative meaning B. lexical meaning
C. affective meaning D. collocative meaning
8. What is mon feature peculiar to all natural languages? ( )
A. Suffixation. B. Polysemy.
C. Allomorph. D. Variation.
9. Which word that f