2004年7月浙江自考英语词汇学真题00831

浙江省2004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 would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.(30%)

1.An idiom is characterized by (      ).

A. semantic unity       B. structural stability

C. non-motivation      D. all the above

2. Which words belong to the functional words? (      )

A. prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions

B. articles, adjectives, pronouns

C. adverbs, conjunctions, nouns

D. prepositions, auxiliaries, articles

3. A word is a symbol that (      ).

A. is used by the same speech community

B. represents something else in the world

C. is both simple and complex in nature

D. shows different ideas in different sounds

4. “Phone”, “doc”, “sis” and “fridge” are examples of (      ) ?

A. abbreviation                   B. shortening

C. clipping                       D. analogy

5. Meaning is closely related to (      ).

A. concept                       B. contextualism

C. implicature                   D. symbolism

6. (      ) is a figure of speech containing an implied comparison in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another.

A. Simile                       B. Synecdoche

C. Overstatement                     D. Metaphor