全国2012年4月自学考试英语词汇学真题(word下载版) - 自考历年真题

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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. Words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us. Which of the following words is related to the natural phenomena? (　　　)

A. Father. B. Fire.

C. Evil. D. Old.

2. The differences between sound and form are due to the following EXCEPT ______. (　　　)

A. the fact of more phonemes than letters in English

B. stabilization of spelling by printing

C. influence of the work of scribes

D. innovations made by linguists

3. There are______ functional words in the following sentence: It is fun to play with children. (　　　)

A. 3 B. 4

C. 5 D. 6

4. The surviving languages fall into eight principal groups. Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Albanian belong to the set. (　　　)

A. Eastern B. Southern

C. Western D. Northern

5. With the growth of______, British tentacles began stretching out to every corner of the globe, thus enabling English to absorb words from all major languages of the world. (　　　)

A. civilization B. revolution

C. colonization D. industrialization

6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? (　　　)

A. English is more closely related to German than French.

B. Scandinavian languages refer to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

C. Old English vocabulary was in essence Germanic with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian.

D. Middle English absorbed a tremendous number of foreign words but with little change in word endings.

7. The word “recollection” comprises ______morpheme(s). (　　　)

A. 1 B. 2

C. 3 D. 4

8. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT______. (　　　)

A. happier B. worker