全國2011年7月高等教育自學考試

　　英語詞匯學試題

　　課程代碼：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. Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can function in a sentence.

　　(　　)

　　A. small

　　B. large

　　C. fixed

　　D. free

　　2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should ________ that of the oral form. ( )

　　A. agree with

　　B. disagree with

　　C. be the same as

　　D. be different from

　　3. ____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. (　　)

　　A. Terminology

　　B. Jargon

　　C. Slang

　　D. Argot

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

　　A. fast food

　　B. TV dinner

　　C. Mao jackets

　　D. Watergate

　　5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “l(fā)oan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English. (　　)

　　A. own

　　B. let

　　C. rent

　　D. lend

　　6. If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings. (　　)

　　A. full

　　B. short

　　C. long

　　D. paralleled

　　7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT ______________. (　　)

　　A. bottles

　　B. eggs

　　C. zoos

　　D. maps

　　8. There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection. (　　)

　　A. l

　　B. 2

　　C. 3

　　D. 4

　　9. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________. (　　)

　　A. likes

　　B. dislike

　　C. liking

　　D. liked

　　10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _______________. (　　)

　　A. affixation

　　B. blending

　　C. compounding

　　D. conversion