高等学历继续教育大学英语3 一、单选题（每题2分，共20道小题，总分40分） 1. Tom: You are playing guitar well. Can you read music? Charles: No, I don’t. I just listen to songs on the radio and then play them until they sound right. Tom: ______ Charles: No, really. - A. You’re lying. - B. You’re kidding. - C. You are boasting. - D. You’re chatting. 2. Customer: Excuse me, sir. Clerk: ______ Customer: I’d like to cash a check. Would you please tell me which window should I go to? Clerk: You can cash checks over there at window 6. - A. Yes, may I help you? - B. It doesn’t matter. - C. It’s all right. - D. What? Can I help you? 3. People generally refer to ______ as Old English. - A. Celtic - B. Breton - C. Anglo-Saxon - D. Romans 4. Connie: Are you doing pottery? It looks like fun! Frank: ______. Connie: Boy, would I? Thanks. - A. Would you like to try it? - B. Have you ever learned how to do it? - C. Would you please give me a hand? - D. Would you please not to bother me? 5. There ______ pepper, salt, mustard and sometimes vinegar on the table. - A. are - B. being - C. is - D. be 6. “Present” and “absent” form a pair of ______. - A. Conversive - B. gradable antonyms - C. complementary antonyms - D. marked antonyms 7. Salesgirl: Good morning, miss. Can I help you? Mary: Yes, I’d like half a kilo of oranges, please. Salesgirl: ______ Anything else? Mary: No, thank you. - A. Here are you - B. These oranges are for you - C. Give you the oranges - D. There you are 8. Tommy: Mommy, when will we have dinner? I’m starving. Mother: ______ We have to wait for daddy. - A. Soon, honey - B. Quickly, honey - C. O.K., honey - D. All right, honey 9. ______ ice cream in the world is more delicious than American ice cream. - A. Not - B. None - C. Neither - D. No 10. If I ______ your address, I would have visited you. - A. know - B. knew - C. have known - D. had known 11. The members of an extended family are ______ by blood or by marriage. - A. relative - B. relates - C. relate - D. related 12. The nuclear family ______ two parents (mother and father) and their children. - A. is consisted of - B. consists of - C. consist of - D. consists 13. Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping? - A. Dorm - B. motel - C. Gent - D. Zoo 14. Phone caller: Hello. Could I please speak to Helen? Helen: ______. - A. It’s me - B. Speaking - C. I am Helen - D. This is me 15. For some individuals financial security is still viewed ______ a dream that can never be achieved. - A. to - B. with - C. as - D. for 16. It was long supposed ______ the main difference between animals and plants was that animals could move about. - A. this - B. that - C. which - D. because 17. Rebecca: ______ Dora: Really? Well, personally, I think he wears the wrong colors. Actually light colors don’t really suit him. - A. I love the way Bob dresses. He always looks so smart. - B. I don’t think Bob has chosen the right suit. - C. How funny Bob looks in that jacket! - D. Bob’s new coat looks very expensive. 18. Which of the following words does NOT belong to terminology? ______ - A. penicillin - B. algebra - C. symphony - D. rifle 19. Michael: Hi, mom. I’d like you to meet my girlfriend, Susan Lee. Susan, this is my mother. Susan: How do you do, Mrs. Miller. Mother: How do you do, Susan. I’m glad you can join us. ______ - A. Please feel natural - B. Make yourself at home. - C. Feel all right here. - D. Take it easy. 20. My dream is ______ other alcoholics will find their success with the help of my book. - A. that - B. who - C. it - D. which 二、判断题（每题2分，共20道小题，总分40分） 1. “Fore-” in “forehead” and “fore-” in “foreknowledge” belong to two kinds of prefix. - 正确 - 错误 2. The smallest functioning unit in the composition of words is morpheme. - 正确 - 错误 3. Stem is a form to which affixes of any kind can be added. - 正确 - 错误 4. The marked term of each pair of antonyms covers the sense of the unmarked term. - 正确 - 错误 5. A word which has a synonym naturally has an antonym. - 正确 - 错误 6. Policeman, constable, bobby and cop are synonyms differing in intensity. - 正确 - 错误 7. Hyponymy deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion. - 正确 - 错误 8. The origins of the words are a key factor in distinguishing homonyms from polysemants. - 正确 - 错误 9. Base is what remains of a word after the removal of all affixes. - 正确 - 错误 10. “Can-opener” used as slang to mean “all-purpose key”. - 正确 - 错误 11. Word-building and word-formation are relative synonyms. - 正确 - 错误 12. Componential analysis is to break down the conceptual sense of a word into its minimal distinctive components. - 正确 - 错误 13. “Radiation” shows that the derived meanings of a polysemantic word are not directly related to the primary meaning. - 正确 - 错误 14. Grammatical meaning of a word includes part of speech, tense meaning, and stylistic coloring. - 正确 - 错误 15. The beginning of the Middle English Period was marked by the Norman Conquest which brought many Latin words into the English language. - 正确 - 错误

16. Parent—child and husband—wife are two pairs of converses. (2分) - 正确 - 错误 17. Homonyms come mainly from borrowing, changes in sound and spelling, and dialects. (2分) - 正确 - 错误 18. The Indo-European language family is made up of most languages of Europe, the Far East, and India. (2分) - 正确 - 错误 19. Words of the basic word stock are mostly root words or monosyllabic words, so they have strong productivity. (2分) - 正确 - 错误 20. Homonyms are descendants of different sources whereas a polysemant is a word of the same source which has acquired different meanings in the course of development. (2分) - 正确 - 错误 三、简答题（每题10分，共2道小题，总分值20分） 1. Why are prefixes and suffixes divided according to different criteria? (10分) 2. List different types of associative meaning and define them. (10分)