2003年7月广东自考英语词汇学真题00831

广东省2003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 bracket.(30%)

1. At the United States Embassy on May 22^nd at 3:30pm, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Global Village of Beijing (GVB) will introduce their production of a 9 part agricultural video series to be broadcast on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) Summer 2002.

The underlined word here is a/an (      ).

 A. verb        B. adjective        C. noun        D. adverb

2. Roget's International Thesaurus is a (      ).

 A. notebook          B. text          C. words book           D. dictionary

3. “-tion”, “-ing”, and “-s” belong to (      ).

 A. affixes          B. suffixes           C. roots          D. stems

4. “Gay” is a synonym of (      ).

 A. joyful           B. joy          C. joyless          D. homosexual

5. Of the modes of wordmeaning changes, (      ) are the most common.

 A. elevation and transfer          B. extension and narrowing

C. degradation and transfer         D. narrowing and degradation

6. Holiday-making is a (      ) motivated word.

 A. semantically           B. etymologically          

 C. onomatopoetically          D. morphologically

7. In the idiom “all ears”, (      ) is used.

 A. metaphor          B. synecdoche          C. metonymy          D. euphemism

8. “East/west” are (      ) antonyms.

 A. not           B. contradictory          C. contrary           D. relative

9. “Look forward to” is an idiom (      ) in nature.

 A. adverbial           B. verbal          C. nominal          D. adjectival 

10. (      ) is used in particular discipline and academic areas.

 A. Slang           B. Jargon          C. Terminology          D. Argot

11. Extra-linguistic context excludes (      ).

 A. clauses           B. time          C. place           D. people

12. The main body of a dictionary is (      ) of words.

 A. spelling          B. pronunciation      C. usage        D. definition

13. They saw her duck. This sentence is ambiguous because “duck” is (      ).

 A. ambiguous           B. a noun