2010年7月广东自考英语词汇学真题00831

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

1. As defined in terms of spoken language, a word is viewed as a sound or combination of sounds which are made voluntarily with human ______ equipment.(      )

A. visual                     B. vocal

C. physical                   D. mental

2. Words may fall into content words and functional words by ______.(      )

A. use frequency           B. notion

C. origin                 D. sound

3. ______ refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves. (      )

A. Terminology           B. Archaisms

C. Slang                D. Jargon

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? (      )

A. Creation.                            B. Semantic changes.

C. Clipping.                            D. Borrowing.

5. Rapid growth of science and technology breeds such new words as the following EXCEPT ______.(      )

A.TV dinner             B. earthrise

C. moon walk                  D. space shuttle

6. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into the Eastern set and the _______ set. (      )

A. Western             B. African

C. American           D. Northern

7. The plural morpheme "-s" is pronounced as/z/in the following words EXCEPT ______.(      )