全国2012年4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 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.