2010年4月广东自考英语词汇学真题00831

全国2010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 best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30%)

1. When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a ____ group of letters printed or written horizontally across a piece of paper. （     ）

 A. small   B. meaningful

 C. vocal D. large

2. ____ belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words. （     ）

 A. Terminology B. Jargon

 C. Slang D. Argot

3. “I'm sure that they will come today.”

 There are____content words in the above sentence. （     ）

 A. 2 B. 3

 C. 4 D. 5

4. Which of the following is one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （     ）

 A. Acronym. B. Blending.

 C. Elevation. D. Borrowing.

5. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT____. (     )

 A. kungfu B.TV dinner

 C. fast food D. Watergate

6. In modern times, ____is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. （     ）

 A. semantic change B. borrowing

 C, expansion D. creation

7. The plural morphme “-s” is realizd by/Iz/after the following sounds EXCEPT____.

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