A) devotes its attention to the description of the characteristic peculiarities in the vocabulary of the given language

B) discusses the origin of various words, their change and development

C) deals with casual relations between the way the language works and develops and the facts of social life

D) deals with the vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of development

E) studies the correlation between the vocabularies of two or more languages

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

006 General Lexicology _______

A) studies the vocabulary irrespective of any particular language

B) devotes its attention to the description of the characteristic peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language

C) discusses the origin of various words, their change and development

D) deals with casual relations between the way the language works and develops and the facts of social life

E) studies the correlation between the vocabularies of two or more languages

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Семантика слова. Семантическая структура слова

007 By internal structure of the word we mean_______

A) the morphological structure of the word

B) the meaning of the word

C) the stylistic structure of the word

D) the emotional part of the word

E) the utterance of the word

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

008 By external structure of the word we mean_______

A) the morphological structure of the word

B) the meaning of the word

C) the stylistic structure of the word

D) the emotional part of the word

E) the utterance of the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

$$009 It is the smallest language unit which can stand alone as a complete utterance

A) a morpheme

B) an allomorph

C) a word

D) a phrase

E) an article

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

009 Every word has two aspects:

A) the outer and the inner

B) lexical and grammatical

C) notional and emotional

D) official and non-official

E) notional and functional

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

010 This type of meaning is defined as information conveyed from the speaker to A) the listener in the process of communication

B) analytical or referential

C) functional or contextual

D) operational or information-oriented

E) special or specialised

general or extended

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

011 The branch of the study of language concerned with the meaning of words is called ____

A) phraseology

B) lexicology

C) semasiology

D) stylistics

E) morphology

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

012 The essential feature of this approach to meaning is that it distinguishes between the three components closely connected with meaning: the sound-form, the concept and the referent. What approach do we mean

A) functional

B) synchronic

C) referentional

D) diachronic

E) grammatical

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

013 The part of Lexicology that studies the meaning of words is called

A) phraseology

B) lexicology

C) semasiology

D) stylistics

E) morphology

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

014 Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with

A) the study of word meaning

B) the phonemic shape of words

C) the grammatical function of words

D) a positional mobility of words within a sentence

E) differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

015 The true meaning of a word is to be found by observing what a man does with it not what he says about it .This is______ definition of meaning

A) functional or contextual

B) analytical or referential

C) operational

D) information – oriented

E) operational

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

016 ______ is a difference between two (or more) homogeneous units which is capable of fulfilling a semasiological function

A) context

B) paradigm

C) semantics

D) opposition

E) meaning

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

017 There are many problems of Lexicology, this is the central branch of Lexicology

A) phraseology

B) semasiology

C) lexicography

D) paradigma

E) semantic field

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

018 ______ is the semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all other containing identical morphemes

A) lexical

B) grammatical

C) stylistic

D) connotational

E) differential

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

Тема: Морфологическая структура слова

019 Morpheme is ________

A) ultimate constituent element which remains after the removal of all functional and derivational affixes

B) an autonomous unit of a language in which a particular meaning is associated with a particular sound complex

C) the word form in which the notion denoted is expressed in the most abstract way

D) the part of the word that remains unchanged throughout its paradigm

E) the smallest meaningful unit of form

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

020 Bound lexical morphemes are ____

A) roots

B) articles, conjunctions, prepositions

C) prefixes, suffixes

D) – s, - ed, - ing endings

E) blocked, unique

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

021 Simple words consist of ______

A) two or more root morphemes and inflexion

B) one root morpheme, one or several affixes and inflexion

C) one or more root morpheme and an inflexion

D) two or more root morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion

E) two or more root morphemes, an affix and an inflexion

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

022 Derived words consist of ______

A) two or more root morphemes and inflexion

B) one root morpheme, one or several affixes and inflexion

C) one or more root morpheme and an inflexion

D) two or more root morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion

E) two or more root morphemes, an affix and an inflexion

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

023 What does set expression “to pull smb’s legs” mean

A) to prevent smb from doing smth

B) to play a trick on smb

C) not to let smb do smth

D) to be jealous to smb

E) to make attempt to do smth

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

024 From the structural point of view morphemes may be classified into:

A) root-morphemes and affixational morphemes

B) non –roof morphemes and free morphemes

C) free morphemes, bound morphemes and semi – morphemes

D) prefixes and suffixes

E) infixis and affixes

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

025 From the semantic point of view morphemes may be classified into:

A) root-morphemes, non-root morphemes

B) free morphemes, bound morphemes and semi-free morphemes

C) non-root morphemes and free morphemes

D) prefixes and suffixes

E) infixes and affixes

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

026 “Teach” – in the word “teacher” is ______

A) non-root morpheme

B) root morpheme

C) prefix

D) suffix

E) infix

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

027 What is bound morpheme

A) a morpheme which coincides with the stem or a word form

B) a morpheme which occurs only as a constituent part of a word

C) a morpheme which functions as an affix and as a free morpheme

D) a morpheme which stand within the word lending themselves easily to isolation

E) a morpheme which seldom or never recurs in other words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

028 “Ness” in the word “readiness” is

A) free morpheme

B) bound morpheme

C) root-morpheme

D) semi-free morpheme

E) semi-bound morpheme

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

029 A morpheme is

A) the smallest invisible two-facet language unit

B) the basic unit of a language

C) a clichй

D) a collocation

E) an abbreviation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

030 The root of the word is

A) the semantic nucleus, the basic part of a word to which affixes are added

B) the basic unit of a language

C) a derivational affix

D) a grammatical paradigm

E) a derived stem

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

031 A stem is

A) a functional affix

B) a derivational affix

C) a prefix

D) a suffix

E) the part of the word that remains unchanged throughout its paradigm

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

032 The words: “pacifist, innocence, cordial” have

A) a free stem

B) a bound stem

C) a semi-bound stem

D) a semi-free stem

E) a compound stem

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

033 Identify the main function of the morphemes

A) to change the lexical meaning of some parts of speech

B) to form one part of speech from another

C) to form a new word

D) to find out the meaning of the word

E) to name the lexical units

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

034 Articles, conjunctions and prepositions are ….

A) lexical morphemes

B) bound lexical morphemes

C) bound grammatical morphemes

D) free grammatical morphemes

E) free lexical morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

035 Functional affixes

A) convey grammatical meaning

B) form different words

C) provide the structural completeness of a word-group

D) convey emotional components of meaning

E) form blendings

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

036 Derivational affixes are

A) to form different words

B) to build different forms

C) to form only neologisms

D) to connect parts of blendings

E) to form only synonyms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

037 What meaning do functional affixes serve to convey

A) lexical

B) lexico-grammatical

C) part-of-speech

D) grammatical.   

E) connotational

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

038 What is a derivational prefix

A) a morpheme following the root

B) a morpheme preceding the root

C) a morpheme concluding the word

D) a morpheme standing between the roots

E) a morpheme which can function independently

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

039 What is the difference between a derivational and a functional suffix

A) a derivational suffix precedes and a functional one follows the root

B) they both precede the root

C) both types of suffixes follow the root, a derivational suffix forms nouns, a functional one other parts of speech

D) a derivational suffix forms different new words, while a functional one form different grammatical forms of the same word

E) they are synonymous term

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

040 Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun

A) a monkey –to monkey

B) a peel- to peel

C) a help- to help

D) a tramp- to tramp

E) a jump-to jump

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

041 Which of these nouns are derived from the verbs

A) a pain, a tramp, a button

B) a pen, a weekend, a drink

C) a break, a catch, a jump

D) a cook, a button, a monkey

E) a fall, a windlass, an act

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

042 anse, - ense, -ment, -age are……

A) French affixes

B) German affixes

C) Latin affixes

D) Greek affixes

E) Scandinavian affixes

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Основные виды словообразования

043 Compound words consist of _______

A) two or more root morphemes

B) one root morpheme, one or several affixes and inflexion

C) one or more root morpheme and an inflexion

D) two or more root morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion

E) two or more root morphemes, an affix and an inflexion

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

044 Usually the leading component of the idiom is expressed by ……

A) a noun or an adverb

B) a verb or a noun

C) an adjective or a conjunction

D) a verb or an article

E) a preposition or an adverb

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

045 What is allomorph

A) an affix placed within a word

B) a positional variant of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment

C) an ultimate constituent of a word

D) an association of a given meaning with a given sound

E) a common element of words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

046 less, - ful, - ster, - ish, are the suffixes ___

A) added to adjective stems

B) added to verbal stems

C) added to noun stems

D) added to adverb stems

E) added to conjunction stems

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

047 A suffix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

048 An infix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

049 A variety of a language which prevails in a district with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation, phrase is called

A) a slang

B) jargonism

C) dialect

D) professionalism

E) artificial language

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

$$051 Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes

A) heroine, actress

B) booklet, hanky

C) poetic, picturesque

D) cloudy, girlish

E) funny, sunny

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

050 –er, -dom, -ness, -ation are _____

A) adjective forming suffixes

B) adverb forming suffixes

C) noun forming suffixes

D) verb forming suffixes

E) numeral forming suffixes

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

051 The same as words, they can be simple, derived , compound and compound–derived. What are they 

A) compound words

B) roots

C) phonemes

D) stems

E) conversions

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

052 The main function of suffixes in Modern English is ____

A) to change the lexical meaning of the words

B) to form one part of speech from another

C) to identify the ways of formation

D) to build some characteristics of the words

E) to classify the meaning of the words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

053 What are the main criteria used to distinguish between free word – groups and phraseological units

A) criteria of stability and lack of motivation

B) criteria of stability, lack of motivation, criterion of function, context

C) criterion of function, context

D) criterion of stability, context

E) criterion of non-motivated units

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

054 Which of these prefixes have the opposite meaning

A) bi-, co-, extra-

B) ultra-, sub-, pre-

C) anti-, counter-, non-

D) re-, co-, pre-

E) de-, un-, over-

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

055 Which of the following prefixes do denote repetition or reversal actions

A) pre-, over-, inter-, ex-

B) in-, non-, un-, im-

C) in-, pre-, dis-, ex-

D) de-, re-,dis-

E) inter-, re-, no-, im-

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

056 Which of the following prefixes do denote negative meaning

A) pre-, over-, inter-, ex-

B) in-, non-, un-, im-

C) in-, pre-, dis-, ex-

D) de-, re-,dis-

E) inter-, re-, no-, im-

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

057 Which of the following prefixes do denote time, space, degree relations

A) pre-, over-, inter-, ex-

B) in-, non-, un-, im-

C) in-, pre-, dis-, ex-

D) de-, re-,dis-

E) inter-, re-, no-, im-

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

058 A prefix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

059 Semantically prefixes fall into……

A) lexical and grammatical

B) denotational and connotational

C) reservative and privative

D) mono and polysemantic

E) prefixes of time and order

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

060 What is a productive affix

A) an affix which is frequently met

B) an affix that has a great number of words derived by means of it

C) an affix that has can not create new words at the given stage of the language

D) an affix that can create new words at the given stage of the language

E) an affix that can function both as an affix and as a word

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

061 Affixation is the formation of words

A) by adding derivational affixes to stems

B) by joining two or more stems together

C) by combining parts of two words

D) by reducing a word to one of its parts

E) by shortening a written word or phrase

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

062 What is the basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure

A) to point out the number of morphemes

B) to state the derivational pattern of the given word

C) to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem

D) to state the meaning of the word

E) to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

063 The most productive ways of word building are

A) conversion, back-formation, blends

B) shortening, component, derivation

C) suffixation, inversion, composition

D) conversion, affixation, composition

E) prefixation, composition, shortening

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

064 These are affixes which do not give any new coinages

A) productive

B) merging

C) non-productive

D) derived

E) reduplicative

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

065 What are hybrids

A) idiomatic compounds

B) removal of the functional and derivational elements

C) words which are made after existing patterns

D) words made up of elements derived from two or more different language

E) the smallest meaningful units

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

066 English word-formation is

A) the formation of words by adding derivational affixes to different types of basis

B) that branch of Lexicology which studies the derivative structure of words and the patterns on which the English language builds new words

C) making a new word from some existing word changing the category of part of speech

D) the derivation of new words by subtracting a red or supposed affix from existing words through misinterpretation of their structure

E) all the answers are correct

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

067 What are the main ways of word-building in modern English

A) sound interchange, sound imitation, back-formation

B) affixation, blends, morphemes

C) affixation, composition, conversion

D) grammatical, lexical, bound morphemes

E) words, meanings, notions, morpheme

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

068 Reduplicative compounds are

A) built on stems of the independently functioning words of the same part of speech

B) made by joining the phonically varited rhythmic twin forms

C) made up by the repetition of the same base

D) made up by components which are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance

E) made up by derived stems

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

069 Word-formation is the process of creating

A) root morphemes

B) affixational morphemes

C) grammatical forms of a word

D) new words

E) bound stems

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

070 Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

A) principal and productive ways of forming new words

B) non-productive ways of word-formation

C) minor types of word-building

D) morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words

E) word-building patterns

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

071 What are compound words

A) words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms

B) class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning

C) nouns denoting some feeling and state

D) derivational morphemes standing before the root

E) the smallest meaningful units

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

072 _____ is the way of word-building when a word is formed by joining two or more stems to form one word

A) loan words

B) conversion

C) contrastive method

D) composition

E) international word

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

073 Neutral compounds are_______

A) the compounds whose meanings do not correspond to the separate meanings of their constituent parts

B) the compounds which are realized without any linking elements by mere two stems

C) the compounds in which two compounding stems are combined by a linking vowel or consonant

D) the which keep articles, prepositions, adverbs in the structure

E) the compounds which are made only with the notional words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

074 Match the term with their classification types: compound-words

A) proper, morphological, syntactic

B) proper, homophones, homographs

C) ideographic, contextual, absolute

D) fusions, collocations, unities

E) absolute, derivational

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

075 What are derivational compounds

A) words whose main function is to provide the structural completeness of a word-group

B) derivational morphemes standing before the root

C) elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary

D) compound words that have affixes

E) words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

076 Which of the following words are derived compounds

A) boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower

B) well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered

C) overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds

D) refrigerators, appendicitis, violation

E) forget-me-not, information, disagreement

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

077 Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

A) by joining two or more stems together

B) by adding derivational affixes to stems

C) by means of changing the paradigm

D) by combining parts of two words

E) by clipping the beginning or the end of the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

078 The word “statesman” is the example of _____

A) neutral compounds

B) morphological compounds

C) syntactic compounds

D) contracted compounds

E) derivational compounds

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

079 The word “lady - killer” is

A) simple compound

B) morphological compound

C) contracted compound.            

D) derivational compound

E) syntactical compound

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

080 They are non – productive and also keep articles, prepositions, adverbs in their parts

A) simple neutral compounds

B) morphological compounds

C) syntactic compounds

D) contracted compounds

E) derivational compounds

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

081 The word “blackbird” is_______

A) contracted compound

B) derivational compound

C) morphological compound

D) simple neutral compound

E) syntactical compound

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

082 Which of the following compounds are non-transparent

A) bookcase, weekend, bottle-opener

B) wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull’s eye

C) stone-cold, care-free, knowledge-greedy

D) center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist

E) steamship, round-faced, swordfish

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

083 According to the order of the components compounds are divided into ____

A) coordinative and subordinative compounds

B) proper, derivational, compound-shortened

C) compounds with direct order and with indirect order

D) prepositions, numerals, nouns

E) neutral, syntactical and morpjological

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

084 Choose the line with asyntactic compounds

A) bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor

B) know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale

C) door-handle, day-time, time-table

D) a green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists

E) oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

085 Syntactic compounds are______

A) the compounds whose meanings do not correspond to the separate meanings of their constituent parts

B) the compounds which are realized without any linking elements by mere two stems

C) the compounds in which two compounding stems are combined by linking vowel or consonant

D) the compounds which keep articles, prepositions, adverbs in their structure

E) the compounds which one constituent part is idiomatic, but the second component is free

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

086 “Mother-in-law, Jack-of-all trades, forget-me-not” are the examples of___composition

A) neutral

B) morphological

C) simple

D) idiomatic

E) syntactical

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

087 According to the relations between the components compound words are subdivided into:

A) proper, derivational

B) parts–of–speech

C) neutral, syntactical

D) subordinative, coordinative

E) notional, verbal

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

088 According to the structure compounds are subdivided into:

A) neutral, syntactical

B) subordinative, coordinative

C) proper, derivational

D) direct, indirect order

E) prepositions, numerals

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

089 It is also called affixless derivation or zero – suffixation

A) word- composition

B) conversion

C) affixation

D) shortening

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

090 ____ are words belonging to the same part of speech, identical in style, expressing contrary or contradictory notions

A) antonyms

B) synonyms

C) homonyms

D) motivations

E) neologisms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

091 Two parts of speech especially affected by conversion are

A) nouns and verbs

B) adjectives and nouns

C) verbs and adverbs

D) nouns and prepositions

E) adverbs and articles

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

092 Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built

A) by means of changing the paradigm

B) by joining two or more stems together

C) by adding word-building affixes to stems

D) by combining parts of two words

E) by shortening a written word or phrase

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

093 Which word-building type is similar to conversion

A) adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization

B) blending, telescoping, reduplication

C) sound and stress imitation

D) initial and final clipping

E) lexical and graphical abbreviations

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

094 Find out the dominant synonym from the given list:

A) scent

B) perfume

C) smell

D) odour

E) aroma

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

Тема: Словообразования. Второстепенные виды словообразования

095 The word “fridge” is an example of ____

A) shortening

B) reduplication

C) sound-imitation

D) back-formation

E) motivation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

096 The word “OK” is an example of

A) sound imitation

B) shortening

C) reduplication

D) motivation

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

097 The word “BBC” is an example of _____

A) shortening

B) back-formation

C) reduplication

D) motivation

E) sound-imitation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

098 The word “phone” is an example of

A) sound – imitation

B) shortening

C) reduplication

D) conversion.     

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

099 What is clipping

A) the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts

B) the result of adding affixes to free stems

C) the result of merging parts of words into one new word

D) the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words

E) the result of shortening and compounding

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

100 Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

A) productive ways of word-building

B) minor types of word-making

C) principal ways of word-building

D) ways of making up phraselogical units

E) ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

101 What is shortening

A) a common element of words

B) a derived word

C) the smallest meaningful unit

D) a significant subtraction in which part of the original word is taken away

E) blending

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

102 According to the structure the words: “frig, pub, tec, USA, exam” are

A) simple

B) shortened

C) compound

D) D) derived

E) blendings

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

103 Check for the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar

A) lexicalization

B) blending

C) back- formation

D) shortening

E) sound imitation

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

104 Acronyms are ___

A) a part of a word which serves for the whole

B) items which are spoken as individual letters

C) initialisms which are pronounced as single words

D) items which contain two identical or very similar constituents

E) combinations of lexemes which is highly informal in tone

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

105 Initialisms are ____

A) a part of a word which serves for the whole

B) items which are spoken as individual letters

C) initialisms which are pronounced as single words

D) items which contain two identical or very similar constituents

E) combinations of lexemes which is highly informal in tone

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

106 Clipping is ____

A) a part of a word which serves for the whole

B) items which are spoken as individual letters

C) initialisms which are pronounced as single words

D) items which contain two identical or very similar constituents

E) combinations of lexemes which is highly informal in tone

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

107 Match the terms with their classification types: ideographic, contextual, absolute, stylistic

A) synonyms

B) antonyms

C) homonyms

D) compoundings

E) idioms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

108 Define the way the following words have been created: life- to live, blood- to bleed, hot- to heat, song- to sing

A) sound imitation

B) sound interchange

C) stress interchange

D) reduplication

E) back- formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

109 “Smog, chunnel, faction, medicare” are the examples of

A) blending

B) reduplication

C) back-formation

D) stress interchange.       

E) sound imitation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

110 Which of the following words are blendings

A) beggar, to burgle, to edit

B) hanky, nighty, radar

C) M.P., USA, BBC

D) ping-pong, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie

E) smog, brunch, clap

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

111 To clip the end of the first component and the beginning of the second component. What phenomenon is it

A) stress interchange

B) blends

C) sound imitation

D) back-formation

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

112 “Motel, brunch, smog, Oxbridge”are the examples of ___

A) blends

B) back-formation

C) imitation

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

113 “Girl – girlie - maiden” are examples of

A) ideographic synonyms

B) absolute synonyms

C) stylistic synonyms

D) lexical synonyms

E) paronyms

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

114 Define the way the following words have been created: ping-pong, chit-chat, rift-raft

A) by means of conversion

B) by means of shortening

C) by means of blending

D) by means of reduplication

E) by means of compounding

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

115 The word “bye-bye” is an example of

A) shortening

B) sound-imitation

C) reduplication

D) motivation

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

116 The word “rift -raft” is an example of

A) shortening

B) back-formation

C) reduplication

D) conversion

E) sound-imitation

{Правильный ответ}=C

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117 Which word-building ways are similar to compounding

A) affixation

B) sound imitation

C) conversion

D) back formation

E) blending and reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

118 “Din-don, walkie-talkie, ping-pong” are the examples of ___

A) blends

B) back-formation

C) imitation

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

119 ___ is the morphological process by which a morpheme is repeated, thereby creating a new word with a different word class

A) back-formation

B) reduplication

C) sound imitation

D) blending

E) stress interchange

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

120 Which of the following words were derived by means of back – formation

A) to burgle, to envy, to escape

B) to trust, to finger, to learn

C) to show, to chat, to lift

D) chortle, brunch, smog

E) to babysit, to beg, to cobble

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

121 “Televise, double-glaze, baby-sitter” are the examples of ___

A) blends

B) back-formation

C) imitation

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

122 It is the way of word-building when a word is formed by dropping the final morpheme to form a new word

A) blends

B) back- formation

C) shortening

D) reduplication

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

123 The word “cock – a – doodle - doo” is an example of

A) conversion

B) back-formation

C) shortening

D) sound-imitation

E) reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

124 It is the way of word-building when a word is formed by imitating different sounds

A) conversion

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) compound word

E) sound imitation

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

Тема: Значения слова. Виды значения слова

125 What are the main types of connotations

A) functional, referential, operational

B) dialect, slang, colloqualisms

C) stylistic, emotional, evaluative, expressive

D) formal, informal, functional.  

E) linguistic, non-linguistic, verbal

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

126 What are the main or basic types of meanings in Lexicology

A) grammatical

B) part-of-speech

C) lexical

D) connotational and denotational

E) lexical, grammatical and connotational

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

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127 The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit recurrent in all the forms of this word is ___

A) lexical meaning

B) grammatical meaning

C) part of speech meaning.          

D) denotational meaning

E) connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

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128 The meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions is_____

A) lexical meaning

B) grammatical meaning

C) part-of-speech meaning

D) denotational meaning

E) connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

129 The emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word is called

A) denotational meaning

B) grammatical meaning

C) part of speech meaning.          

D) stylistic meaning

E) connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

130 What types of connotations do you know

A) functional, referential, operational

B) dialect, slang, colloqualisms

C) stylistic, emotional, evaluative, expressive

D) formal, informal, functional.  

E) linguistic, non-linguistic, verbal

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

131 What is the lexical meaning

A) the meaning proper to sets of word-forms common to all words of a certain class

B) the component of meaning which makes communication possible

C) the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

D) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

E) the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

132 What is the denotational meaning

A) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

B) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

D) the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

E) the connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

133 What is the connotational meaning

A) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

B) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

D) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

E) the denotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

134 What is the grammatical meaning

A) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

B) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

D) the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

E) the connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

135 What is the differential meaning

A) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

B) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

D) the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

E) the connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

136 What is the distributional meaning

A) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

B) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

D) the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

E) the meaning of the order and arrangement of morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

137 The only existing classification system of synonyms was established by

A) I.V. Arnold

B) V.V. Vinogradov

C) G.B. Antrushina.         

D) R.S. Ginzburg.

E) A.V. Koonin

{Правильный ответ}=B                                     

 

138 The stem expresses_______ meaning

A) grammatical and part of speech

B) denotational and connotational

C) lexical and part of speech

D) distributional and differential

E) lexical and grammatical

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

139 The system of grammatical forms characteristic of a word is called:

A) a paradigm

B) inflection

C) formatives

D) valency

E) word formation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Мотивация. Виды мотивации

140 Motivation is _____

A) a connection between the structural pattern of the word and its graphic form

B) a connection between the structural pattern of the word and its sound form

C) a connection between the structural pattern of the word and the referent

D) a connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

E) a connection between the meaning of the word and concept

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

141 From the given definitions find correct definition of motivation

A) the way in which a given meaning is represented in the word

B) the way established the interdependence between words of the objects or phenomena they denote

C) the way that the meaning of a word is revealed by substituting different contexts

D) a variety of a language which prevails in a district with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation and phrase

E) the existence of only one meaning within words

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

142 A connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning is called:

A) semantic relations

B) motivation

C) paradigmatic relations

D) syntagmatic relations

E) semantic derivation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

143 There are 3 types of motivation. They are____

A) morphological, lexical, phonetic

B) morphological, phonetic, semantic

C) semantic, special, general

D) blending, shortening, clipping

E) bilingual, lingual, lexical

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

144 Semantic motivation implies …

A) a direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes, their arrangement and meaning

B) a direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning

C) a direct connection between the central and marginal meaning of the word

D) a direct connection between the stylistic and emotional vocabularies and meaning

E) a direct connection between the context and meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

145 Morphological motivation implies …

A) a direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes, their arrangement and meaning

B) a direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning

C) a direct connection between the central and marginal meaning of the word

D) a direct connection between the stylistic and emotional vocabularies and meaning

E) a direct connection between the context and meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

146 Phonetical motivation implies ….

A) a direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes, their arrangement and meaning

B) a direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning

C) a direct connection between the central and marginal meaning of the word

D) a direct connection between the stylistic and emotional vocabularies and meaning

E) a direct connection between the context and meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

147 Define the examples of phonetic motivation from the following variants

A) the foot of the mountains, the root of the word

B) rethink, retell, reproduce, faded

C) bang, cuckoo, burr, splash

D) baby-sitter, blood, mother country

E) dramedy, comedy, smog

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

148 Define the examples of morphological motivation from the following variants

A) the foot of the mountains, the root of the word

B) rethink, retell, reproduce, faded

C) bang, cuckoo, burr, splash

D) baby-sitter, blood, mother country

E) dramedy, comedy, smog

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

149 Define the examples of semantic motivation from the following variants

A) the foot of the mountains, the root of the word

B) rethink, retell, reproduce, faded

C) bang, cuckoo, burr, splash

D) baby-sitter, blood, mother country

E) dramedy, comedy, smog

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Изменения значения слова

150 The causes of semantic changes may be grouped under two main headings

They are ….

A) linguistic and extralinguistic

B) generalization and specialization

C) elevation and degradation

D) metaphor and metonymy

E) litote and hyperbole

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

151 Similarity of meanings or______ may be described as a semantic process of associating two referents

A) back-formation

B) sound interchange

C) metonymy

D) simile

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

152

From the connotational point of view the meaning of the words can change into:

A) pejoration, amelioration

B) blending, back-formation

C) functional, referential

D) generalization, specialization

E) metaphor, metonymy

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

153 What is the dominant synonym

A) it is the figurative meaning of the synonymic set

B) a central word whose meaning is equal to the denotation common to all the synonymic group

C) ready made, stable synonyms

D) connotational meaning is equal to denotational

E) indecent, rude, too direct meaning of synonymic group

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

154 Changes in the denotational meaning may result in the application of the word towards wider variety of referents. This is commonly described as _____

A) generalization of meaning

B) specialization of meaning

C) extension of meaning

D) pejorative development

E) ameliorative development

{Правильный ответ}=A

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155 What is pejoration of meaning

A) lowering of the meaning connected with the appearance of a derogatory

B) elevation of the meaning

C) widening of the meaning

D) the situation of words of mild or vague connotation for rough, unpleasant expressions

E) specialization of meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

156 It is a transfer of the meaning on the basis of comparison

A) metonymy

B) elevation

C) degradation

D) litote

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

157 These are words referring to smth unpleasant by using milder words and phrases so that a formerly unoffensive word receives a disagreeable meaning

A) litote

B) irony

C) euphemism

D) hyperbole

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

158 Transference based on resemblance is also referred to as___

A) metonymy

B) litote

C) metaphor

D) euphеmism

E) irony

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

159 Transference based on contiguity is also referred to as____

A) metonymy

B) litote

C) metaphor

D) euphemism

E) irony

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

160 From the denotational point of view the meaning of the words can change into:

A) pejoration, amelioration

B) blending, bane- formation

C) functional, referential

D) generalization, specialization

E) metaphor, metonymy

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

161 Find the synonyms of the verb “to die”

A) to create, to imagine, to fancy, to evoke

B) to have devil life, to have black night, to join the majority

C) to yield up the ghost, to go the way of all flesh, to go West, to check out

D) to be boiled, to close eyes, to delicate, to pay guest

E) to glaze, to stare, to peep, to peer

{Правильный ответ}=C

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162 Sometimes a word which represented a notion of a broader scope has come to render the notion of a narrower scope. This phenomenon is called_______

A) specialization

B) generalization

C) pejoration

D) amelioration

E) litote

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

163 It is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes better in the course of time

A) metaphor

B) elevation

C) hyperbole

D) metonymy

E) phraseology

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

164 It is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes worse in the course of time

A) metonymy

B) epithet

C) litote

D) degradation

E) hyperbole

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

165 It is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker uses exaggerations

A) blending

B) elevation

C) phraseology

D) chiasmus

E) hyperbole

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

166 It is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker expresses affirmative with the negative or vice versa

A) degradation

B) elevation

C) litote

D) reduplication

E) semantics

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

167 What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words: monolingual, monosyllable, monologue

A) one

B) many

C) all

D) every

E) each

{Правильный ответ}=A

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Тема: Полисемия. Омонимы. Синонимы. Антонимы

$$170 When the intermediate links fall out, some new meanings lose all connections with the rest of the structure and start a separate existence. The phenomenon is known _______

A) homonyms

B) antonyms

C) split of polysemy

D) synonymy

E) semantics

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

168 What is polysemy

A) the ability of words to coincide in their sound form

B) the existence of contrastive meanings within a word

C) the existence within one word of several connected meanings as the result of the D) development and changes of its original meaning

E) the existence of only one meaning within words

words with opposite meanings

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

169 Terminology, professionalisms, jargonism belong to _____ grouping of English Vocabulary

A) emotionally neutral and colored vocabulary

B) stylistically neutral and stylistically marked vocabulary

C) non – semantic grouping

D) lexico – grammatical grouping

E) thematic and ideographic grouping

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

170 What is monosemy

A) The ability of words to coincide in their sound-form but differ in their meaning

B) The existence of only one meaning within words

C) The existence of more than one meaning within words

D) The ability of words coincide in their sound form and meaning

E) The existence of contrastive meanings within words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

171 Intralinguistic relations of words are basically of two main types:

A) external and internal

B) syntagmatic and paradigmatic

C) related and non- related

D) prefixation and suffixation

E) compound and derived

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

172 What are the main types of linguistic contexts

A) linguistic, extralinguistic

B) paradigmatic, syntagmatic

C) related , non – related

D) official , non – official

E) part of speech and semantic

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

173 There are two processes of the semantic development of a word:

A) outer and inner

B) plural and singular

C) internal and external

D) radiation and concatenation

E) positive and negative

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

174 What is context

A) the structural patterns of phrases

B) the derivational patterns of words

C) the minimal stretch of speech determining each individual meaning of the word

D) a set of words united by the identity of the root

E) a group of non-motivated words

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

175 Context helps

A) find connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

B) the smallest meaningful unit of form

C) investigate word groups that cannot be made in the process of speech, they exist in the language as ready- made units

D) determine each individual meaning of the word

E) deal with the meaning of words

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

176 ____ is the key to find out meaning of the word under consideration

A) semantics

B) connotation

C) context

D) opposition

E) paradigmatic

{Правильный ответ}=C

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177 The relationship existing between elements of various levels is logically that of inclusion semantists call it

A) intensifiers

B) irony

C) hyponymy

D) evaluatory words

E) colloqualisms

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

178 Different causes by which homonymy may be brought about are divided into two main groups:

A) homonymy developed from borrowings and etymology

B) homonymy developed from semantic change and extralinguistic causes

C) homonymy through convergent sound development and developed from polysemy through divergent sense development

D) homonymy developed from conversion and compound-words

E) homonymy developed from pronunciation and lexemes

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

179 What are homonyms proper

A) are words identical in meaning but different in spelling

B) are words different in sound and in meaning but identical in spelling

C) are words identical in pronunciation and spelling but different meaning

D) are words of the same sound but of different spelling and meaning

E) are words of the same origin

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

180 Professor A.I. Smirnitsky classified homonyms into _____ classes

A) homonyms proper, homograph

B) homograph, borrowed homonymy

C) phonetic, grammar homonyms

D) homonems, dishomonyms

E) homonyms full, partial homonyms

{Правильный ответ}=E

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181 These are words which are the same in spelling but different in sound

A) homographs

B) homonyms proper

C) homophones

D) complete homonyms. 

E) partial homonyms

{Правильный ответ}=A

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182 What are homonyms

A) words with identical sound and graphic forms

B) words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form

C) words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning

D) words coinciding in some shades of meaning

E) words with opposite meaning

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

183 What are synonyms

A) words with identical sound and graphic forms

B) words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound form

C) words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning

D) words with contrastive meanings

E) words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings and interchangeable at least in some context

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

184 What are antonyms

A) words different in sound-form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning

B) words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings and interchangeable at least in some context

C) word a which are idiomatic and ready-made units

D) words identical found form, but different in meaning

E) words which are typical in grammar

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

185 Find the synonymic dominant in the following series of synonyms: shine, -flash , --blaze, -gleam, -glister

A) to shine

B) to flash

C) to blaze

D) to gleam

E) to glister

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

                        

 

Лексикология _01_ENG.doc

001 A morpheme is

A) the smallest meaningful unit of form

B) the basic unit of a language

C) a cliché

D) a collocation

E) an abbreviation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

002 Semantically morphemes are classified as

A) bound morphemes

B) free morphemes

C) semi-free morphemes

D) root and affixational morphemes

E) semi-bound morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

003 Structurally morphemes fall into

A) root morphemes

B) stem morphemes

C) prefixational morphemes

D) suffixational morphemes

E) free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

004 The root of the word is

A) a derivational affix

B) the basic unit of a language

C) the basic part of a word to which affixes are added

D) a grammatical paradigm

E) a derived stem

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

005 A stem is

A) a functional affix

B) a derivational affix

C) a prefix

D) a suffix

E) the part of the word that remains unchanged through its paradigm

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

006 A paradigm is

A) the system of the lexical meanings of a word

B) the system of the grammatical forms of a word

C) the system of the morphological changes of a word

D) the system of the semantic changes of a word

E) the system of the lexico-grammatical changes of a word

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

007 An allomorph is

A) a positional variant of a morpheme

B) an affix placed within a word

C) an ultimate constituent of a word

D) an association of a given meaning with a given sound

E) a common element of words

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

008 Proof in the word fireproof is

A) an infix

B) a semi-affix

C) an allomorph

D) a suffix

E) an inflection

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

009 Friend is a

A) bound morpheme

B) semi-free morpheme

C) semibound morpheme

D) free morpheme

E) morphol

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

010 Which of the following lines has diminutive suffixes

A) heroine, actress

B) booklet, girlie

C) poetic, picturesque

D) cloudy, girlish

E) funny, sunny

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

011 The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have

A) a free stem

B) a bound stem

C) a semi-bound stem

D) a semi-free stem

E) a compound stem

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

012 Isotope is a

A) historism

B) common colloquial word

C) neologism

D) jargonism

E) vulgarism

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

013 Which of the following lines have derived stems

A) story-teller, match-box, friendly

B) beautiful, girlish, activate

C) distance, experiment, sequence, police

D) ache, cup, look

E) chortle, goody-goody, UNO

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

014 Morphemes occur as

A) constituents of sentences

B) constituents of words

C) constituents of sounds

D) constituents of phrases

E) free forms

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

015 Words which consist of a root and an affix (or affixes) are

A) derived words

B) root words

C) compound words

D) curtailed words

E) blendings

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

016 Choose the line with root words

A) reread, mispronounce, unwell

B) V-day, lab, pram

C) room, work, book

D) workaholic, mother-in-law, update

E) singing, friendship, kingdom

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

017 A prefix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

018 A suffix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

019 An infix is

A) a derivationl morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

020 Functional affixes

A) convey grammatical meaning

B) form different words

C) provide the structural completeness of a word-group

D) convey emotional components of meaning

E) form blendings

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

021 Derivational affixes serve

A) to form different words

B) to convey grammatical meaning

C) to build different forms of one and the same word

D) to form only neologisms

E) to connect parts of blendings

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

022 Lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies

А) the history of a language

В) the grammatical system of a language

С) the phonemic shape of words

D) the vocabulary of a language

E) the relations between the language and social life

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

023 Derivatives include

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two free morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

024 The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in

A) lexicology

B) phonetics

C) phraseology

D) lexicography

E) grammar

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

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025 Word-formation is the process of creating

A) root morphemes

B) affixation morphemes

C) grammatical forms of a word

D) new words

E) bound stems

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

026 Affixation is the formation of words

A) by adding derivational affixes to stems

B) by joining two or more stems

C) by combining parts of two words

D) by reducing a word to one of its parts

E) by shortening a written word or phrase

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

027 Archer, phaeton are

A) historisms

B) common colloquial words

C) dialectical words

D) jargonisms

E) vulgarisms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

028 Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

A) by joining two or more stems

B) by adding derivational affixes to stems

C) by means of changing the paradigm

D) by combining parts of two words

E) by clipping the beginning or the end of the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

029 What is clipping

A) the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts

B) the result of adding affixes to free stems

C) the result of merging parts of words into one new word

D) the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words

E) the result of shortening and compounding

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

030 Which word-building ways are similar to compounding

A) affixation

B) sound imitation

C) conversion

D) back formation

E) blending and reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

031 What is blending

A) telescoping, reduplication

B) sound and stress interchange

C) back-formation

D) sound imitation

E) affixation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

032 Which word -building types are similar to conversion

A) adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization

B) blending, telescoping, reduplication

C) sound and stress imitation

D) initial and final clipping

E) lexical and graphical abbreviations

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

033 Coarse words that are not generally used in public are

A) slangs

B) common colloquial words

C) dialectical words

D) jargonisms

E) vulgarisms

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

034 Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

A) productive ways of word-building

B) minor types of word making

C) principal ways of word-building

D) ways of making up phraselogical units

E) ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

035 Shortening is

A) a common element of words

B) a derived word

C) the smallest meaningful unit

D) a significant subtraction of a word

E) blending

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

036 Compound words are

A) words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms

B) class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning

C) nouns denoting some feelings and state

D) derivational morphemes standing before the root

E) the smallest meaningful unit

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

037 Derivational compounds are

A) words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group

B) derivational morphemes standing before the root

C) elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary

D) compound words that have affixes

E) words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

038 Which of the following words are derived compounds

A) boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower

B) well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered

C) overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds

D) refrigerators, appendicitis, violation

E) forget-me-not, information, disagreement

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

039 According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

A) simple

B) shortened

C) compound

D) derived

E) blendings

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

040 Words jersey, pullover are

A) slang words

B) neologisms

C) obsolete words

D) terms

E) international words

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

041 The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is

A) to point out the number of morphemes

B) to state the derivational pattern of the given word

C) to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem

D) to state the meaning of the word

E) to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its

meaning

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

042 Wall newspaper is a

A) A) familiar quotation

B) saying

C) metaphor

D) metonymy

E) translation loan

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

043 Define the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar

A) lexicalization

B) blending

C) back formation

D) shortening

E) sound imitation

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

044 Which of the following words are blendings

A) beggar, to burgle, to edit

B) hanky, nighty, radar

C) M. P., USA, BBC

D) ping-pong. topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie

E) smoge, brunch, dramedy – smog, brunch, dramedy

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

045 Which of these nouns are derived from verbs

A) a pain, a tramp, a button

B) a pen , a weekend, a drink

C) a break, a catch, a jump

D) a cook, a button, a monkey

E) a fall, a windglass, an act

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

046 Choose the line with interjections

A) purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do

B) quack, moo, buzz

C) hiss, gibber, bray

D) bang!, hush!, pooh!

E) clash, crash, whip

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

047 Find the line with asyntactic compounds

A) bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor

B) know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale

C) door-handle, day-time, time-table

D) a green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists

E) oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

048 -er, -dom, -ness, -ation are

A) adjective -forming suffixes

B) adverb-forming suffixes

C) noun-forming suffixes

D) verb-forming suffixes

E) numeral-forming suffixes

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

049 The underlined words in the following sentences: "How often do you milk the cows", "Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs." "He began to nose about like an old bloodhound." are cases of

A) allusion

B) conversion

C) cliché

D) metaphor

E) euphemism

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

050 Derivatives contain

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two free morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

051 Compound words are maid of

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

052 An occasional word is

A) a word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object

B) a word which cannot be considered a permanent element of the word stock

C) a word of etymologically different origins

D) a word borrowed from another language

E) a word formed by combining stems

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

053 Form or functional words comprise

A) auxiliary verbs

B) prepositions

C) conjunctions

D) relative adverbs

E) all this group

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

054 Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are

A) derivatives

B) compounds

C) compound derivatives

D) simple words

E) synonyms

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

055 The word TV is a case of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) abbreviation

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

056 The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

A) shortening

B) conversion

C) reouplication

D) compounding

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

057 Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of coordinative compounds

A) ICs are semantically and structurally equally important

B) ICs are structurally equally important

C) ICs are semantically equally important

D) ICs are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance

E) they are made up only with the help of a linking element

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

058 A word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object or express a new concept is a

A) euphemism

B) homonym

C) hybrid

D) loan word

E) neologism

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

059 Which of the following lines contain cases of back formation

A) to envy, to escape, to lose

B) to trust, to finger, to learn

C) to show, to lift, to chat

D) chortle, brunch, smog

E) to baby-sit, to beg, to cobble

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

060 What is the difference between the derivational and functional suffixes

A) a derivational suffix precedes and a functional suffix follows the root

B) both of them precede the root

C) both types of suffixes follow the root, a derivational suffix forms nouns, a

 functional suffix forms other parts of speech

D) a derivational suffix forms various new words while a functional suffix forms

 various grammatical forms of the same word

E) they are synonymous terms

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

061 Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion

A) adjectives

B) adverbs

C) pronouns

D) verbs and nouns

E) numerals

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

062 How many semantic structures does a compound word possess

A) a single semantic structure

B) two semantic structures

C) three semantic structures

D) four semantic structures

E) five semantic structures

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

063 The word exam is a case of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) sound-interchange

E) onomatopoeia

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

064 The words lab and laboratory are different in

A) structure

B) stylistics

C) meaning

D) affixation

E) derivation

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

065 The words TV, T.B. are cases of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) abbreviation

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

066 Sound imitation is

A) the derivation of new words by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from

 existing words

B) the naming of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a sound

 association with it

C) opposition of words or word-forms.

D) lexical abbreviation

E) reduction of a word to one of its parts

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

067 Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation

A) word-composition

B) conversion

C) affixation

D) word-derivation

E) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

068 Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping

A) T-shirt, H-bomb, V-day

B) story, phone, cello

C) flu, fridge, tech

D) babble, chatter, giggle

E) beg, housekeep, butler

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

069 Connotational component is

A) the grammatical meaning of the word

B) the denotational meaning of the word

C) the emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word

D) the lexical meaning of the word

E) the sound form of the word

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

070 “Has been” in the following sentence "She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been" is the result of

A) word-composition

B) word derivation

C) conversion

D) polysemy

E) affixation

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

071 Adding derivational affixes to stem is called

A) affixation

B) acronym

C) abbreviation

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

072 What kind of clipping is the word “math”

A) final clipping

B) initial clipping

C) medial clipping

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

073 The following words hell, damn, shut up are

A) terms

B) dialectical words

C) slang

D) vulgarisms

E) synonyms

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

074 The word dogged is

A) root word

B) derivative

C) compound

D) compound derivative

E) morpheme word

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

075 Jargonisms are

A) words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic

 character

B) common colloquial words

C) professionalisms

D) vulgarisms

E) barbarisms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

076 The word “story”is an example of

A) final clipping

B) initial clipping

C) medial clipping

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

077 mis , dis are

A) infixes

B) prefixes

C) interfixes

D) suffixes

E) inflections

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

078 The word brunch( breakfast+lunch) was formed with the help of

A) sound-interchange

B) shortening

C) conversion

D) affixation

E) blending

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

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079 Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with

A) differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication

B) the phonemic shape of words

C) the grammatical function of words

D) a positional mobility of words within a sentence

E) the study of word meaning

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

080 A metaphor is

A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity

B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity

C) specialization of meaning

D) degradation of meaning

E) amelioration of meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

081 A metonymy is

A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity

B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity of meaning

C) specialization of meaning

D) degradation or of meaning

E) amelioration of meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

082 Euphemism is

A) the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones

B) a taboo

C) an irony

D) an ellipsis

E) litotes

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

083 The White House, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of

A) a metaphor

B) a metonymy

C) a euphemism

D) an irony

E) litotes

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

084 A Don Juan, the foot of the bed, bookworm, the head of the school are cases of

A) a metaphor

B) a metonymy

C) a euphemism

D) an irony

E) litotes

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

085 The words deer (O.E. 'wild beast'), meat (O.E. 'food') are cases of

A) widening of the meaning

B) pejoration of the meaning

C) amelioration of the meaning

D) specialization of meaning

E) generalization of the meaning

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

086 Choose the line with synonyms to the word to look

A) to see, to gaze, to blame

B) to peep, to stroll, to sob

C) to watch, to strive, to race

D) to gaze, to glance, to peep, to stare

E) to starve, to search, to wait

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

087 Which of the following words are homonyms proper

A) sea (n) - see (v)

B) wind (n) - wind (v)

C) tear (n) - tear (v)

D) bank (n) - bank (n)

E) knight (n) – night (n)

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

088 Head of a cabbage is

A) a metaphor

B) a metonymy

C) a saying

D) a euphemism.

E) a proverb

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

089 Metonymy is based on

A) narrowing of meaning

B) contiguity of meaning

C) pejoration of meaning

D) amelioration of meaning

E) extention of meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

090 Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

A) the association of similarity

B) contiguity of meaning

C) pejoration of meaning

D) amelioration of meaning

E) extension of meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

091 The word combinations a long distance, a long speech, a short path, a short time are cases of metaphor based upon

A) the analogy between duration of time and space

B) similarity of shape

C) similarity of behaviour

D) similarity of function

E) similarity in position

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

092 Meaning is

A) the relation between the object or notion named, and the name itself

B) stylistic coloring of the word

C) the lexical valency of the word

D) the syntactic valency

E) the sound form

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

093 Choose the line with total (complete or absolute) synonyms

A) pretty, handsome, beautiful

B) functional affix, inflection, flexion

C) to eat, to partake, to peck

D) capable , skillful, qualified

E) companion, friend, associate

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

094 Choose the line with the derivational antonyms

A) careful – careless

B) slow – fast

C) correct - incorrect – wrong

D) temporary-permanent

E) enemy – friend

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

095 Choose the letter with mixed antonyms

A) final – first

B) safety – danger

C) active - passive – inactive

D) temporary – permanent

E) slow – quick

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

096 Choose the line with synonyms to the word to hope

A) to expect, to look forward, to anticipate

B) to look forward, to sway, to puff

C) to wait, to plague, to anticipate

D) to appeal, to sway, to look forward

E) to controvert, to contradict, to glaze

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

097 Choose the line with the case of a hyperbole

A) the White House

B) thousand pardons

C) mother tongue

D) the leg of the table

E) grass green

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

098 Seeds of evil is

A) metonymy

B) simile

C) litotes

D) metaphor

E) epithet

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

099 Choose the letter with homophones

A) night (n) - knight (n)

B) tear (n) - tear (v)

C) lead (n) - lead (v)

D) wind (n) - wind (v)

E) new (adj) – old (adj)

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

100 Choose the line that has words belonging to terminology

A) lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome

B) a book, a shop, a suit, a street

C) telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor

D) to go to bed, to get up, to have breakfast, to clean

E) three, above, are, far, straight

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

101 Choose the line with homonyms proper

A) ball (n) - ball (n)

B) wind (n) - wind (v)

C) check (n) - cheque (n)

D) been (v)- bean (n)

E) bear (n) – bear (v)

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

102 Choose the line with the homographs in the following sets of words

A) new – knew

B) brake – break

C) by – buy

D) piece – peace

E) bow - bow

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

103 Choose the line with the case of a metaphor

A) the Pentagon

B) the bonnet of the car

C) to kick the bucket

D) at all

E) tick-tack

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

104 "I'll poet him!", "I'll orange your face!", "to girl the boat". Are the underlined verbs the cases of

A) traditional conversion

B) occasional conversion

C) metaphor

D) metonymy

E) humor

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

105 What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have

A) the lexical meaning

B) the grammatical meaning of plurality

C) the stylistic coloring

D) the denotational meaning

E) the connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

106 The words: swish, splash are

A) phonetically motivated

B) semantically motivated

C) morphologically motivated

D) non-motivated

E) graphically motivated

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

107 Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)

A) idiom

B) euphemism

C) hybrid

D) etymological doublet

E) metonymy

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

108 Set expression “tooth and nail” functions like a (an)

A) noun

B) verb

C) adjective

D) adverb

E) preposition

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

109 “I have told you 50 times” is an example of a

A) metonymy

B) metaphor

C) euphemism

D) hyperbole

E) litotes

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

110 Words to commence, to compute are

A) learned words

B) common colloquial words

C) dialectical words

D) jargonisms

E) vulgarisms

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

111 “Doctor, medical man”,and “scientist, scholar” are

A) ideographic synonyms

B) stylistic synonyms

C) antonyms

D) total synonyms

E) partial synonyms

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

112 Words, which are different in sound and in meaning, but identical in spelling are

A) homonyms proper

B) homophones

C) homographs

D) synonyms

E) antonyms

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

113 To err is human is a (an)

A) cliché

B) proverb.

C) idiom.

D) free phrase.

E) familiar quotation.

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

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114 Phraseology studies

A) lexical homonyms

B) graphical abbreviations

C) synonyms and anlonyms

D) free word-combinations and phraseological units

E) phrasal verbs

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

115 Lexical valency is the ability of a word

A) to appear in various word combinations

B) to lose its meanings

C) to appear in various grammatical structures

D) to acquire new meanings

E) to generalize its meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

116 Grammatical valency is the ability of a word

A) to appear in various word combinations

B) to lose its meanings

C) to appear in various grammatical structures

D) to acquire new meanings

E) to generalize its meaning

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

117 Choose the line with set expressions that function like interjections

A) in the pink

B) by heart

C) cat's paw

D) by hook or by crook

E) Oh Boy! My God!

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

118 Free word-groups are

A) words put together to form lexical units

B) stereotyped or unchangeable set expressions

C) phraselogical fusions

D) phraselogical collocations

E) phraseological unities

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

119 Choose the definition of a phraseological unit

A) words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units

B) any prepositional or postpositional phrases

C) the smallest two-facet language unit

D) functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups

E) the basic unit of a language

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

120 Phraseological units differ from free word-groups in

A) their reproducibility in speech, idiomaticity and structural stability

B) their reproducibility in speech and structural variability

C) their structural stability and usability in the direct sense

D) their ability to function as independent units of communication

E) their ability to function as word-equivalents

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

121 Vinogradov's classification of phraselogical units is based on

A) the criterion of function

B) the criterion of motivation

C) the criterion of idiomaticity

D) the criterion of fixed context

E) the theory of word equivalence

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

122 A proverb is

A) a saying expressing some well-known truth

B) a familiar quotation

C) a free word-group

D) a verb-adverb combination

E) a traditional compound

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

123 Choose the line describing the distinctive feature of proverbs

A) proverbs function as independent units of communication

B) proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement

C) proverbs are completely non-motivated

D) proverbs function as word-equivalents

E) proverbs function as word-groups

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

124 The last straw breaks the camel's back is

A) euphemism

B) taboo

C) free word-group

D) a cliché

E) a proverb

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

125 An idiom is

A) an expression or phrase the meaning of which is different from the literal

 meanings of its components

B) a free word-group

C) a proverb

D) a familiar quotation

E) a saying

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

126 According to the semantic classification word-groups fall into

A) motivated and non-motivated

B) movable

C) immovable

D) communicative

E) non-communicative

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

127 Classification of phraseological units cannot be based on

A) the degree of idiomaticity

B) contextual approach

C) functional approach

D) on a combination of the functional, semantic and structural features

E) only on the structural principle

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

128 Complete the following idiom of comparison as busy as

A) a bee

B) a mouse

C) a frog

D) a dove

E) an ant

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

129 Choose the line with the synonymous phraseological units

A) through thin and thin; by hook or by crook; for love or money

B) in the soup; in the pink; under a cloud

C) to show one's cards; to look through one's fingers; to show the white feather

D) to take the bull by the horns; to wear one's heart on one's sleeve; to kill the goose

 that laid the golden eggs

E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public; jack in the box; Jack of all trades

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

130 Which of these proverbs expresses best the idea of the following situation"Very soon after his father's death Mike's mother died and he became an orphan.”

A) never say die

B) it never rains but it pours

C) tastes differ

D) all is not good that glitters

E) nothing venture, nothing have

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

131 Choose one of the following lines with the sentence that has an idiom.

A) there are two possible explanations about the origin of this famous phrase

B) "why can't the mayor just cut all the red tape and let us have a parade without a

permit"

C) some idioms originated as colloquialisms or slang

D) some idioms were well-known proverbs and short sayings that express practical,

basic truth

E) it’s time to go to bed

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

132 (To be) like a bull in a china shop means

A) to be a cause of anger

B) to be an insensitive, crude person

C) to feel very proud and happy about something

D) to feel uncomfortable, ill at ease in one’s surroundings, situation

E) to be a careless, clumsy person who may cause damage through lack of skill or

care

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

133 A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a

A) cliché

B) proverb

C) eset-expression

D) phraseological unit

E) idiom

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

134 A term is

A) a peculiar type of word or word combination expressing a definite conception

B) a preposition

C) a proverb

D) a conjunction

E) slang

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

135 Complete the idiom "as like as two…" using one of the following words

A) peas

B) bears

C) twins

D) nuts

E) cucumbers

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

136 Which of the following lines contains only form words

A) dog-like, through, to help

B) lonesome, handful, are

C) terror, a computer, out of

D) from, oh!, am

E) went, come on, and

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

137 Complete the following idiom as sly as

A) a cat

B) a fox

C) a rock

D) an owl

E) a rose

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

138 Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological fusion

A) take a fancy

B) wash one's dirty linen in public

C) show one's teeth

D) to kick the bucket

E) to come into fashion

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

139 Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation

A) to come into fashion

B) to kick the bucket

C) to show one’s teeth

D) red tape

E) to bear malice

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

140 Which of the following phraseological units is not motivated

A) bear a grudge

B) bear malice

C) hot dog

D) take a liking

E) to show one’s teeth

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

141 A phraseological fusion is

A) a partially motivated word-group

B) a completely non-motivated word-group

C) a partially non-motivated word-group

D) a motivated word-group

E) a completely motivated word-group

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

142 To know the way the wind blows is

A) phraseological unity

B) phraseological fusion

C) phraseological combination

D) familiar quotation

E) proverb.

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

143 Red flower is a (an)

A) set phrase

B) idiom

C) phraseological unit

D) free word-group

E) word-equivalent

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

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144 Etymology investigates

A) Peculiarities of the English vocabulary

B) Different types of compounds

C) The origin and history of a word and its true meaning

D) Different kinds of dictionaries

E) General problems of the theory of the word

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

145 Hybrids are

A) idiomatic compounds

B) removal of all functional and derivational elements

C) words which are made after existing patterns

D) words made up of constsituents from two or more different languages

E) the smallest meaningful units

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

146 Words borrowed from one language into several other languages are called

A) borrowings

B) euphemisms

C) synonyms

D) international

E) toponyms

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

147 Which of the following words are native English

A) devoid, interrogate, stomach

B) vacuum, question, abdomen

C) empty, ask, belly

D) finish, complete, ascend

E) compare, cry, commence

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

148 What does lexical assimilation of borrowings comprise

A) change in sound form and stress

B) various changes in the semantic structure of the word and formation of derivatives

 from borrowed word-stems

C) different changes in sound -form and grammatical paradigms

D) changes in sound form

E) structural changes

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

149 What does the native element of the English vocabulary consist of

A) Latin and Celtic elements

B) Celtic, Germanic and Scandinavian elements

C) Indo-European and Germanic elements

D) Indo-European and Celtic elements

E) Celtic and Scandinavian elements

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

150 Barbarisms are

A) completely assimilated words

B) semantically assimilated words

C) partially assimilated words

D) words which are not assimilated

E) grammatically assimilated words

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

151 Which of the following words are of French origin

A) empty, ask, belly

B) afternoon, and, ask

C) beau, commence, chauffeur

D) hyena, home, husband

E) hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

152 The words ballet, buffet corps, bouquet, cliché are borrowings from

A) Latin

B) Indian

C) Spanish

D) French

E) Scandinavian

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

153 Choose the line with native English.

A) vacuum, exist, act

B) machine, parachute, valley

C) xylophone, epoch, chemist

D) confetti, macaroni, tobacco

E) summer, hope, life

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

154 The loan words husband, fellow, table, chair, figure are

A) partially assimilated words

B) neologisms

C) barbarisms

D) unassimilated words

E) completely assimilated words

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

155 The word unmistakable has constituents originated from

A) 4 languages

B) 2 languages

C) 3 languages

D) 1 language

E) 5 languages

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

 

156 Words: sari, sombrero

A) are not assimilated semantically

B) are not assimilated graphically

C) are not assimilated grammatically

D) are not assimilated phonetically

E) completely assimilated

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

157 The words “cheese, street, wall, wine” belong to the earliest layer of ______ borrowings

A) Indian

B) Latin

C) Greek

D) French

E) Japanese

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

158 The difference between the British and American English is noticeable in the field of

A) phonetics

B) grammar

C) vocabulary

D) rhythm and intonation of speech

E) in all the fields of the language system.

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

159 The following words pyjamas khaki, mango, bungalow which became international came from.

A) Australia;

B) New Zealand;

C)India

D) Canada;

E) The USA.

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

160 The words glamour, kilt, raid, came into English from

A) The Scottish dialects;

B) Cockney;

C) the Irish dialect ;

D) Australian English;

E) Canadian English

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

161 Choose the line where all the words have American spelling.

A) travelling, centre, colour, offence

B) jewellery, woolen, favour, metre

C) armour, although, fibre, monologue

D) humor, theater, program, thru

E) telegramme, center, picturesque, favour

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

162 The toponyms Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Utah are

A) Indian words (of Indian tribes)

B) Spanish words

C) German words

D) French words

E) Italian words

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

163 Concept is

A) a referent

B) an object

C) a sound-form

D) a meaning

E) a thought

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

164 Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin

A) –doom, -hood, -ly;

B) – able, -ible, -ant, -ous;

C) –age,-ful,-ence;

D) –ist, -ism, -ite;

E) –anti, -dom, -ful.

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

165 The following definition "coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat" is an entry from

A) an explanatory dictionary

B) a dictionary of word-frequency

C) a bilingual dictionary

D) a dictionary of pronunciation

E) an etymological dictionary

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

166 "Thesaurus" means

A) a collection of words put in groups together according to likeness in their

 meaning.

B) a dictionary of abbreviations

C) an etymological dictionary

D) a list of explanations of words, especially unusual ones at the end of a book

E) an alphabetical list of words used in a book or collection of books by one writer

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

167 Word frequency dictionary is

A) unilingual dictionary

B) multilingual dictionary

C) bilingual dictionary

D) thesaurus

E) concordance

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

168 Which dictionary gives information about extra-linguistic world

A) bilingual dictionaries

B) translation dictionaries

C) glossaries

D) thesaurus

E) encyclopedia

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

169 Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words are

A) general dictionaries

B) special dictionaries

C) glossaries

D) rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries

E) etymological dictionaries

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

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170 The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in

A) lexicology

B) phonetics

C) phraseology

D) lexicography

E) grammar

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

171 Glossaries are

A) unilingual books that give definitions of terms

B) thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors.

C) word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in

 another language.

D) dictionaries explaining origin of words

E) dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

172 Dictionaries of American English are

A) explanatory dictionaries

B) etymological dictionaries

C) general dictionaries

D) dictionaries of synonyms

E) specialized dictionaries

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

173 The main problems in lexicography are connected with

A) selection of lexical units and arrangement and setting of the entries

B) selection and arrangement of meaning and definition of the last

C) illustrative examples and choice of adequate equivalents

D) selection and arrangement of word-derivations within a word family

E) all the problems mentioned above

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

174 The main types of dictionaries are

A) general and etymological

B) general and special

C) special and multilingual

D) usage and slang dictionaries

E) general and ideographic

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

175 Lexicography deals with

A) the word-making process in English

B) classification of loan words

C) variants of the English language

D) the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries

E) the etymological background of the English word stock

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

176 A list of words in which the entry words are arranged in alphabetical order starting with their final letters are

A) pronouncing dictionaries

B) usage dictionaries

C) dictionaries of word frequency

D) dictionaries of slang

E) reverse dictionaries

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

177 Dictionaries of toponyms are

A) general

B) dictionaries of the most difficult words

C) specialized dictionaries

D) dictionaries of frequency

E) explanatory dictionaries

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

 

 

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