2002年7月广东自考英语词汇学真题00831

广东省2002年7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 would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.(30%)

1.  Linguistic dictionaries usually do NOT cover such areas as (     )

  A. definitions                    B. spelling

  C. usage                         D. sound

2. This 9-segment series focuses on economically viable small-scale U.S. farms that have adopted environmentally-innovative agricultural techniques.The underlined word is a (     ) word.

  A. nonce                         B. vogue

  C. fashionable                    D. coin

3. If two main constituents of an idiom share the last vowel,it is called (     )

  A. rime                          B. alliteration

  C. repetition                     D. reiteration

4. The rhetorical coloring of “as cool as cucumber” is (     )

  A. rime                          B. juxtaposition

  C. reiteration                    D. alliteration

5. The overwhelming majority of net terms are (     )

  A. adverbials                     B. nouns

  C. verbs                         D. adjectives

6. Sina in“Sina.com" is a (     )

  A. semantically                   B. etymologically

  C. onomatopoetically              D. morphologically

7. In the idiom “in low water",(     ) is used.

  A. metonymy                      B. synecdoche

  C. metaphor                      D. euphemism

8. “Cousin/sister" are (     ) antonyms.

  A. not                           B. contradictory

  C. contrary                       D. relative

9. “On line" is an idiom (     ) in nature.

  A. adverbial                      B. verbal

  C. nominal                       D. adjectival

10. American English began to be known in the (     )

  A. 17^th century                   B. 16 ^th century

  C. 18 ^th century                   D. Middle Ages

11. A key component of the US system is extension agents that serve as bridges from researchers to farmers by transferring new conservation technologies and techniques to farmers.There underlined word here is a/an (     )

  A. adverb                        B. noun

  C. verb                          D. adjective

12. Other meanings apart from the primary meaning of a word were acquired by (      )

  A. analogy                       B. extension

  C. narrowing                     D. all the above