《英语词汇学》自考真题试题及答案解析
- Washing the food down with water as a substitute ________ chewing is not a good habit
- He ________ his poor judgment ________ Jet Lag.
- Police are ________ the disappearance of two children.
- Each of us should _______ aside a few minutes to have a rest every day.
- We were told that the stone figure _______ back to the 16th century was of great value.
- Perseverance is a kind of quality and that is _______ it takes to do anything well.
- You should help them ________ when your friends quarrel with each other.
- We are interested in the weather because it _______ us so directly—what we wear, what we do and even how we feel.
- —David has made great progress recently. — _______，and _______.
- If you try to learn too many things at a time, you may get ________.
- Modern economics ________ the country ’s agricultural policies.
- A good worker in a key spot could, so _______ as he kept up production, take all the coffee breaks he wanted.
- We cannot leave this tough job to a person ________.
- To write up his novel, John is looking for an environment free ________ outside distraction.
- What he told us was more of a(n) ________ than a reality.
- It has been years ________ I returned home.
- It took a few seconds for her eyes to ________ to the darkness.
- He insured his car ________ he had an accident.
- Happiness doesn ’t alway s _______ money.
- Parents, teachers in schools and communicators in or using the mass media are all capable of ________ our potential interests.
- The professor worked for 7 hours at a ________.
- Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987) has some unique features such as definition, extra column and ______.
- Generally, a dictionary covers the following contents EXCEPT ______.
- Oxford Advanced Learner s Dictionary ’ , 3rd Edition (1980), is among the best-known British ______ dictionaries.
- Lexical manipulation is one aspect of the rhetorical features of idioms. The following EXCEPT ______ belong to lexical manipulation.
- Idioms nominal in nature have a(n) ______ as the key word in each and function as a noun in sentences.
- Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms?
- Which of the following is NOT one of the context clues?
- There is an ambiguity in the sentence “ He is a hard businessman ” due to ______.
- In grammatical context, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the ______in which it occurs.
- The word “minister” originally meant “a servant”, but now has changed to“a head of a ministry ”. This process of meaning change is called ______ .
- Which of the following is NOT one of the extra-linguistic factors that cause changes in meaning?
- ______ of meaning is a process by which a word that originally had a specialized meaning has now become generalized.
- “ Apple, pear, peach, orange, lemon, etc. ” make up the ______ of “ fruit ”.
- The differences between synonyms exist in the following areas EXCEPT ______.
- Words that are identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning are called ______.
- Which of the following statements is TRUE?
- 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 ______.
- One can figure out the meaning of “ airmail ” to be “ mail by air ” by its ______.
- Which of the following is partially converted?
