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陕西理工学院成教院《英语词汇学》自测题 Self-Assessment Exx on English Lexicology 一.?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. 1.?Words?fall?into?the?basic?word?stock?and?nonbasic?vocabulary?by?______.?（??????）? A.?use?frequency? ?B.?notion? C.?productivity?? D.?origin? 2.?Words?like?bear,?nut,?knocked?out?can?be?categorized?as?______.?（??????）?A.?terminology?? ?B.?jargon ?C.?slang??? D.?neologisms? 3.?Identify?the?word?that?is?of?Scandinavian?origin?among?the?following.?（??????）?A.?Skirt ??B.?Dress ?C.?Model??? D.?Status? 4.?Which?of?the?following?statements?is?NOT?true??（??????）? A.?Old?English?was?a?highly?inflected?language.? B.?Reviving?archaic?or?obsolete?words?also?contribute?to?the?growth?of?English?vocabulary ?C.?The?word?cloak?is?of?French?origin. ?D.?Modern?English?is?a?synthetic?language.? 5.?The?root?of?the?word?“antecedent”?is?______.?（??????）?A.?ante-?? ?B.?-ced-? C.?-dent??? D.?-ent? 6.Shortening?a?longer?word?by?cutting?a?part?off?the?original?and?using?what?remains?is?called?____.（??????）?A.?blending?? ?B.?clipping ?C.?acronymy??? D.?back-formation? 7.?Associative?meaning?of?words?comprises?the?following?except?______.?（??????）?A.?connotative?meaning???B.?lexical?meaning?C.?affective?meaning??? D.?collocative?meaning? 8.?What?is?a?common?feature?peculiar?to?all?natural?languages??（??????）?A.?Suffixation.??? B.?Polysemy.? C.?Allomorph.??? D.?Variation.? 9.?Which?word ?that?formerly?meant?animal, ?and?later?animal?from?Latin?and?beast?from?French?found?their?way?into?English?（??????）?A.?Deer.??? B.?Cattle.? C.?Sheep.??? D.?Bird.? 10.?When?a?word?with?multiple?meanings?is?used?in?an?inadequate?context,? this?word?may?create?______.?（??????）?A.?semantic?motivation?? ?B.?degradation ?C.?ambiguity??? D.?extension? 11.?Without?______,?there?is?no?way?to?determine?the?very?sense?of?the?word?that?the?speaker?intended?to?convey.?（????