全国2012年4月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题

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. En