浙江省2008年4月自学考试英语词汇学试题.doc

浙江省2008年4月自学考试英语词汇学试题 课程代码：10059 I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (15%, 1 point for each) 1．Which of the following is NOT true? ( ) A. Lexicology is theoretical in nature, but very practical, too. B. The study of the current state of the words of one period is synchronic whereas the inquiry of the historical development of words is diachronic. C. A good knowledge of vocabulary guarantees correct use of the language. D. Lexicology and lexicography have a lot in common because both deal with words. 2. The Indo-European Language Family accordingly fall into ________ principle groups, which can be grouped into an Eastern set and Western set. ( ) A. eight B. six C. five D. several 3. The Norman Conquest in 1066 started a continual flow of ________ words into the English vocabulary. ( ) A. Greek B. French C. Danish D. Latin 4. Conversion is a method ( ) A．of turning words of one part of speech to those of a different part of speech. B. of converting words of one meaning into different meaning. C. of deriving words through grammatical means. D. of changing words in morphological structure. 5. Nouns converted from adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as ( ) A．partial conversion B. full conversion C. functional shift D. grammatical shift 6. Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of ( ) A. prefixation B. suffixation C. acronymy D. conversion 7. The Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English.________ of them are still in use today.( ) A. 85% B. 56% C. 72% D. 75% 8. The derivational process, in which an item is converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix, is called ( ) A. full conversion B. partial conversion C. functional shift D. zero-derivation 9. Back-formation is the method of creating new words by ________ the so-c