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第一部分选择题I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A,B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(30%)1.“Woman”becomes “Frau”in German, “femme”in French and “fùnǔ”in Chinese. This example shows that in different languages the same concept can be represented by different ______.A. sounds B.formsC. unities D.meanings2.The following words of the basic word stock denote the most common things and phenomena of the world around us EXCEPT ______.A. fire B.hotC. photoscanning D.sister3.Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling. Which of the following words comes from Chinese?A. Bazaar. B.Kowtow.C. Rajah. D.Blitzkrieg.4.The Indo-European language family is made up of the languages of the following EXCEPT ______.A. Europe B.the Far EastC. India D.the Near East5. Which of the following is NOT one of the main sources of new words in the present-day English vocabulary?A. The rapid development of modern science and technology.B.Social, economic and political changes.C. The invasion of foreign countries.D.The influence of other cultures and languages.6. Modern English vocabulary develops through the following channels EXCEPT ______.A. creation B.borrowingC. semantic change D.lexical change7. How many monomorphemic words are there in the following words?cats boss work improper triedA.1.B.2.C.3.D.4.8. A mong the following words, “______” does NOT have inflectional affixes.A. liked B.children’sC. happier D.it’s9. Which of the following words does NOT have suffixes?A. Northward. B.Widen.C. Happy. D.Worker.10. Among the following words, “______ ” contains a negative prefix.A. amoral B.de-composeC. antiwar D.foretell11. From the viewpoint of word formation, the word “smog” is a ______.A. compound B.conversionC. clipping D.blending12. Which of the following is partially converted?A. A white. B.A drunk.C. The poor. D.Finals.13. One can figure out the meaning of “airmail” to be “mail by air” by its ______.A. onomatopoeic motivation B.morphological motivationC. semantic motivation D.etymological motivation14.When a reader comes across the word “home” in his reading, the word may remind him of his “family, friends, warmth, safety, etc. ” In this sense, the word “home” conveys ______.A. connotative meaning B.stylistic meaningC. affective meaning D.collocative meaning15. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Grammatical meaning refers to the part of speech, tenses of verbs and stylistic features ofwords.B.Unlike conceptual meaning, associative meaning is unstable and indeterminate.C. Affective meaning indicates the listener’s attitude towards the person or thing in question.D.Collocation cannot affect the meaning of words.16. Words that are identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning are called ______.A. perfect homonyms B.homographsC. homophones D.homonyms17. The differences between synonyms exist in the following areas EXCEPT ______.A. denotation B.connotationC. reference D.application18. “Apple, pear, peach, orange, lemon, etc.” make up the ______ of “fruit”.A. synonyms B.homonymsC. superordinate term D.semantic field19. ______ of meaning is a process by which a word that originally had a specialized meaninghas now become generalized.A. Degradation B.ElevationC. Extension D.Specilization20. Which of the following is NOT one of the extra-linguistic factors that cause changes in meaning?A. Cultural reason. B.Historical reason.C. Class reason. D.Psychological reason.21.The word “minister”originally meant“a servant”, but now has changed to“a head of a ministry”. This process of meaning change is called ______.A. extension B.elevationC. degradation D.specialization22. In grammatical context, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the ______in which it occurs.A. structure B.sentenceC. phrase D.clause23. There is an ambiguity in the sentence “He is a hard businessman” due to ______.A. polysemy B.homonymyC. synonymy D.antonymy24. Which of the following is NOT one of the context clues?A. Definition. B.Polysemy.C. Synonymy. D.Antonymy.25. Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms?A. The part of speech of each element in an idiom is very important.B.The constituents of idioms can’t be r eplaced.C. The word order in an idiom can’t be changed.D.An idiom functions as one word.26. Idioms nominal in nature have a(n) ______ as the key word in each and function as a noun in sentences.A. verb B.adjectiveC. preposition D.noun27.Lexical manipulation is one aspect of the rhetorical features of idioms. The following EXCEPT ______ belong to lexical manipulation.A. alliteration B.reiterationC. repetition D.juxtaposition28. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition (1980), is among the best-known British ______ dictionaries.A. unabridged B.deskC. pocket D.bilingual29. Generally, a dictionary covers the following contents EXCEPT ______.A. spelling B.pronunciationC. definition D.syntactical rules30. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987) has some unique features such as definition, extra column and ______.A. pronunciation B.grammar codesC. usage examples D.language codes非选择题部分注意事项:用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上,不能答在试题卷上。