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Лексикология _01_ENG.doc
$$$001 A morpheme is
A) the smallest meaningful unit of form
B) the basic unit of a language
C) a cliché
D) a collocation
E) an abbreviation
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Ginzburg R.S. and others A Course in Modern English Lexicology
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$003 Structurally morphemes fall into
A) root morphemes
B) stem morphemes
C) prefixational morphemes
D) suffixational morphemes
E) free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$005 A stem is
A) a functional affix
B) a derivational affix
C) a prefix
D) a suffix
E) the part of the word that remains unchanged through its paradigm
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$007 An allomorph is
A) a positional variant of a morpheme
B) an affix placed within a word
C) an ultimate constituent of a word
D) an association of a given meaning with a given sound
E) a common element of words
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language
$$$009 Friend is a
A) bound morpheme
B) semi-free morpheme
C) semibound morpheme
D) free morpheme
E) morphol
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Ginzburg R.S. and others A Course in Modern English Lexicology
$$$011 The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have
A) a free stem
B) a bound stem
C) a semi-bound stem
D) a semi-free stem
E) a compound stem
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$012 Isotope is a
A) historism
B) common colloquial word
C) neologism
D) jargonism
E) vulgarism
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$013 Which of the following lines have derived stems
A) story-teller, match-box, friendly
B) beautiful, girlish, activate
C) distance, experiment, sequence, police
D) ache, cup, look
E) chortle, goody-goody, UNO
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$015 Words which consist of a root and an affix (or affixes) are
A) derived words
B) root words
C) compound words
D) curtailed words
E) blendings
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$017 A prefix is
A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root
B) a derivational morpheme following the stem
C) a common element of words within a word-family
D) an affix placed within the word
E) a combining form
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$019 An infix is
A) a derivationl morpheme preceding the root
B) a derivational morpheme following the stem
C) a common element of words within a word-family
D) an affix placed within the word
E) a combining form
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$021 Derivational affixes serve
A) to form different words
B) to convey grammatical meaning
C) to build different forms of one and the same word
D) to form only neologisms
E) to connect parts of blendings
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=01
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$023 Derivatives include
A) one free morpheme
B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
C) not less than two free morphemes
D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
E) a group of words
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=01
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
Лексикология_02_ ENG.doc
$$$025 Word-formation is the process of creating
A) root morphemes
B) affixation morphemes
C) grammatical forms of a word
D) new words
E) bound stems
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$027 Archer, phaeton are
A) historisms
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$029 What is clipping
A) the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts
B) the result of adding affixes to free stems
C) the result of merging parts of words into one new word
D) the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words
E) the result of shortening and compounding
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$031 What is blending
A) telescoping, reduplication
B) sound and stress interchange
C) back-formation
D) sound imitation
E) affixation
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$033 Coarse words that are not generally used in public are
A) slangs
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$035 Shortening is
A) a common element of words
B) a derived word
C) the smallest meaningful unit
D) a significant subtraction of a word
E) blending
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$037 Derivational compounds are
A) words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group
B) derivational morphemes standing before the root
C) elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary
D) compound words that have affixes
E) words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$039 According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are
A) simple
B) shortened
C) compound
D) derived
E) blendings
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Ginzburg R.S. and others A Course in Modern English Lexicology
$$$040 Words jersey, pullover are
A) slang words
B) neologisms
C) obsolete words
D) terms
E) international words
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$041 The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is
A) to point out the number of morphemes
B) to state the derivational pattern of the given word
C) to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem
D) to state the meaning of the word
E) to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its
meaning
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$042 Wall newspaper is a
A) familiar quotation
B) saying
C) metaphor
D) metonymy
E) translation loan
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$043 Define the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar
A) lexicalization
B) blending
C) back formation
D) shortening
E) sound imitation
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$045 Which of these nouns are derived from verbs
A) a pain, a tramp, a button
B) a pen , a weekend, a drink
C) a break, a catch, a jump
D) a cook, a button, a monkey
E) a fall, a windglass, an act
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$047 Find the line with asyntactic compounds
A) bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor
B) know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale
C) door-handle, day-time, time-table
D) a green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists
E) oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$049 The underlined words in the following sentences: "How often do you milk the cows", "Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs." "He began to nose about like an old bloodhound." are cases of
A) allusion
B) conversion
C) cliché
D) metaphor
E) euphemism
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$051 Compound words are maid of
A) one free morpheme
B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
C) not less than two morphemes
D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
E) a group of words
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$053 Form or functional words comprise
A) auxiliary verbs
B) prepositions
C) conjunctions
D) relative adverbs
E) all this group
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$054 Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are
A) derivatives
B) compounds
C) compound derivatives
D) simple words
E) synonyms
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$055 The word TV is a case of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) abbreviation
E) sound interchange
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$057 Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of coordinative compounds
A) ICs are semantically and structurally equally important
B) ICs are structurally equally important
C) ICs are semantically equally important
D) ICs are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance
E) they are made up only with the help of a linking element
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$059 Which of the following lines contain cases of back formation
A) to envy, to escape, to lose
B) to trust, to finger, to learn
C) to show, to lift, to chat
D) chortle, brunch, smog
E) to baby-sit, to beg, to cobble
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$061 Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion
A) adjectives
B) adverbs
C) pronouns
D) verbs and nouns
E) numerals
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$063 The word exam is a case of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) sound-interchange
E) onomatopoeia
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$064 The words lab and laboratory are different in
A) structure
B) stylistics
C) meaning
D) affixation
E) derivation
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$065 The words TV, T.B. are cases of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) abbreviation
E) sound interchange
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$067 Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation
A) word-composition
B) conversion
C) affixation
D) word-derivation
E) back-formation
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$069 Connotational component is
A) the grammatical meaning of the word
B) the denotational meaning of the word
C) the emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word
D) the lexical meaning of the word
E) the sound form of the word
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$071 Adding derivational affixes to stem is called
A) affixation
B) acronym
C) abbreviation
D) reduplication
E) sound interchange
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$073 The following words hell, damn, shut up are
A) terms
B) dialectical words
C) slang
D) vulgarisms
E) synonyms
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$074 The word dogged is
A) root word
B) derivative
C) compound
D) compound derivative
E) morpheme word
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$075 Jargonisms are
A) words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic
character
B) common colloquial words
C) professionalisms
D) vulgarisms
E) barbarisms
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$077 mis , dis are
A) infixes
B) prefixes
C) interfixes
D) suffixes
E) inflections
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
Лексикология_03_ENG.doc
$$$079 Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with
A) differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication
B) the phonemic shape of words
C) the grammatical function of words
D) a positional mobility of words within a sentence
E) the study of word meaning
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$081 A metonymy is
A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity
B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity of meaning
C) specialization of meaning
D) degradation or of meaning
E) amelioration of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$083 The White House, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a euphemism
D) an irony
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$085 The words deer (O.E. 'wild beast'), meat (O.E. 'food') are cases of
A) widening of the meaning
B) pejoration of the meaning
C) amelioration of the meaning
D) specialization of meaning
E) generalization of the meaning
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$087 Which of the following words are homonyms proper
A) sea (n) - see (v)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) tear (n) - tear (v)
D) bank (n) - bank (n)
E) knight (n) –night (n)
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$088 Head of a cabbage is
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a saying
D) a euphemism.
E) a proverb
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$089 Metonymy is based on
A) narrowing of meaning
B) contiguity of meaning
C) pejoration of meaning
D) amelioration of meaning
E) extention of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$091 The word combinations a long distance, a long speech, a short path, a short time are cases of metaphor based upon
A) the analogy between duration of time and space
B) similarity of shape
C) similarity of behaviour
D) similarity of function
E) similarity in position
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$093 Choose the line with total (complete or absolute) synonyms
A) pretty, handsome, beautiful
B) functional affix, inflection, flexion
C) to eat, to partake, to peck
D) capable , skillful, qualified
E) companion, friend, associate
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$095 Choose the letter with mixed antonyms
A) final –first
B) safety –danger
C) active - passive –inactive
D) temporary –permanent
E) slow –quick
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$097 Choose the line with the case of a hyperbole
A) the White House
B) thousand pardons
C) mother tongue
D) the leg of the table
E) grass green
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$098 Seeds of evil is
A) metonymy
B) simile
C) litotes
D) metaphor
E) epithet
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$099 Choose the letter with homophones
A) night (n) - knight (n)
B) tear (n) - tear (v)
C) lead (n) - lead (v)
D) wind (n) - wind (v)
E) new (adj) –old (adj)
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$101 Choose the line with homonyms proper
A) ball (n) - ball (n)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) check (n) - cheque (n)
D) been (v)- bean (n)
E) bear (n) –bear (v)
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$103 Choose the line with the case of a metaphor
A) the Pentagon
B) the bonnet of the car
C) to kick the bucket
D) at all
E) tick-tack
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$105 What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have
A) the lexical meaning
B) the grammatical meaning of plurality
C) the stylistic coloring
D) the denotational meaning
E) the connotational meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$106 The words: swish, splash are
A) phonetically motivated
B) semantically motivated
C) morphologically motivated
D) non-motivated
E) graphically motivated
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$107 Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)
A) idiom
B) euphemism
C) hybrid
D) etymological doublet
E) metonymy
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$108 Set expression “tooth and nail” functions like a (an)
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
E) preposition
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$109 “I have told you 50 times” is an example of a
A) metonymy
B) metaphor
C) euphemism
D) hyperbole
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$110 Words to commence, to compute are
A) learned words
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$111 “Doctor, medical man”,and “scientist, scholar” are
A) ideographic synonyms
B) stylistic synonyms
C) antonyms
D) total synonyms
E) partial synonyms
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$113 To err is human is a (an)
A) cliché
B) proverb.
C) idiom.
D) free phrase.
E) familiar quotation.
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
Лексикология_04_ENG.doc
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=English Lexicology Антрушина Г. Б. и др.
$$$115 Lexical valency is the ability of a word
A) to appear in various word combinations
B) to lose its meanings
C) to appear in various grammatical structures
D) to acquire new meanings
E) to generalize its meaning
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$117 Choose the line with set expressions that function like interjections
A) in the pink
B) by heart
C) cat's paw
D) by hook or by crook
E) Oh Boy! My God!
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$119 Choose the definition of a phraseological unit
A) words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units
B) any prepositional or postpositional phrases
C) the smallest two-facet language unit
D) functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups
E) the basic unit of a language
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$121 Vinogradov's classification of phraselogical units is based on
A) the criterion of function
B) the criterion of motivation
C) the criterion of idiomaticity
D) the criterion of fixed context
E) the theory of word equivalence
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$123 Choose the line describing the distinctive feature of proverbs
A) proverbs function as independent units of communication
B) proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement
C) proverbs are completely non-motivated
D) proverbs function as word-equivalents
E) proverbs function as word-groups
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$125 An idiom is
A) an expression or phrase the meaning of which is different from the literal
meanings of its components
B) a free word-group
C) a proverb
D) a familiar quotation
E) a saying
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$127 Classification of phraseological units cannot be based on
A) the degree of idiomaticity
B) contextual approach
C) functional approach
D) on a combination of the functional, semantic and structural features
E) only on the structural principle
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$129 Choose the line with the synonymous phraseological units
A) through thin and thin; by hook or by crook; for love or money
B) in the soup; in the pink; under a cloud
C) to show one's cards; to look through one's fingers; to show the white feather
D) to take the bull by the horns; to wear one's heart on one's sleeve; to kill the goose
that laid the golden eggs
E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public; jack in the box; Jack of all trades
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$131 Choose one of the following lines with the sentence that has an idiom.
A) there are two possible explanations about the origin of this famous phrase
B) "why can't the mayor just cut all the red tape and let us have a parade without a
permit"
C) some idioms originated as colloquialisms or slang
D) some idioms were well-known proverbs and short sayings that express practical,
basic truth
E) it’s time to go to bed
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$133 A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a
A) cliché
B) proverb
C) eset-expression
D) phraseological unit
E) idiom
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$135 Complete the idiom "as like as two…" using one of the following words
A) peas
B) bears
C) twins
D) nuts
E) cucumbers
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$137 Complete the following idiom as sly as
A) a cat
B) a fox
C) a rock
D) an owl
E) a rose
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Ginzburg R.S. and others A Course in Modern English Lexicology
$$$139 Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation
A) to come into fashion
B) to kick the bucket
C) to show one’s teeth
D) red tape
E) to bear malice
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$141 A phraseological fusion is
A) a partially motivated word-group
B) a completely non-motivated word-group
C) a partially non-motivated word-group
D) a motivated word-group
E) a completely motivated word-group
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$143 Red flower is a (an)
A) set phrase
B) idiom
C) phraseological unit
D) free word-group
E) word-equivalent
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=04
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
Лексикология_05_ENG.doc
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$145 Hybrids are
A) idiomatic compounds
B) removal of all functional and derivational elements
C) words which are made after existing patterns
D) words made up of constsituents from two or more different languages
E) the smallest meaningful units
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Ginzburg R.S. and others A Course in Modern English Lexicology
$$$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
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$147 Which of the following words are native English
A) devoid, interrogate, stomach
B) vacuum, question, abdomen
C) empty, ask, belly
D) finish, complete, ascend
E) compare, cry, commence
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$149 What does the native element of the English vocabulary consist of
A) Latin and Celtic elements
B) Celtic, Germanic and Scandinavian elements
C) Indo-European and Germanic elements
D) Indo-European and Celtic elements
E) Celtic and Scandinavian elements
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$151 Which of the following words are of French origin
A) empty, ask, belly
B) afternoon, and, ask
C) beau, commence, chauffeur
D) hyena, home, husband
E) hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$152 The words ballet, buffet corps, bouquet, cliché are borrowings from
A) Latin
B) Indian
C) Spanish
D) French
E) Scandinavian
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$153 Choose the line with native English.
A) vacuum, exist, act
B) machine, parachute, valley
C) xylophone, epoch, chemist
D) confetti, macaroni, tobacco
E) summer, hope, life
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$155 The word unmistakable has constituents originated from
A) 4 languages
B) 2 languages
C) 3 languages
D) 1 language
E) 5 languages
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$157 The words “cheese, street, wall, wine” belong to the earliest layer of ______ borrowings
A) Indian
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) French
E) Japanese
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=07
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$159 The following words pyjamas khaki, mango, bungalow which became international came from.
A) Australia;
B) New Zealand;
C)India
D) Canada;
E) The USA.
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$161 Choose the line where all the words have American spelling.
A) travelling, centre, colour, offence
B) jewellery, woolen, favour, metre
C) armour, although, fibre, monologue
D) humor, theater, program, thru
E) telegramme, center, picturesque, favour
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=07
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=05
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$163 Concept is
A) a referent
B) an object
C) a sound-form
D) a meaning
E) a thought
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=2
{Тема}=03
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=3
{Тема}=02
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$165 The following definition "coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat" is an entry from
A) an explanatory dictionary
B) a dictionary of word-frequency
C) a bilingual dictionary
D) a dictionary of pronunciation
E) an etymological dictionary
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$167 Word frequency dictionary is
A) unilingual dictionary
B) multilingual dictionary
C) bilingual dictionary
D) thesaurus
E) concordance
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$168 Which dictionary gives information about extra-linguistic world
A) bilingual dictionaries
B) translation dictionaries
C) glossaries
D) thesaurus
E) encyclopedia
{Правильный ответ}=E
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$169 Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words are
A) general dictionaries
B) special dictionaries
C) glossaries
D) rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries
E) etymological dictionaries
{Правильный ответ}=B
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
Лексикология_06_ENG.doc
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$171 Glossaries are
A) unilingual books that give definitions of terms
B) thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors.
C) word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in
another language.
D) dictionaries explaining origin of words
E) dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge
{Правильный ответ}=A
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$173 The main problems in lexicography are connected with
A) selection of lexical units and arrangement and setting of the entries
B) selection and arrangement of meaning and definition of the last
C) illustrative examples and choice of adequate equivalents
D) selection and arrangement of word-derivations within a word family
E) all the problems mentioned above
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$175 Lexicography deals with
A) the word-making process in English
B) classification of loan words
C) variants of the English language
D) the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
E) the etymological background of the English word stock
{Правильный ответ}=D
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language
$$$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
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
$$$177 Dictionaries of toponyms are
A) general
B) dictionaries of the most difficult words
C) specialized dictionaries
D) dictionaries of frequency
E) explanatory dictionaries
{Правильный ответ}=C
{Сложность}=1
{Тема}=06
{Код специальности}=050119
{Учебник}=Arnold I.V. The English Word
КАЗАХСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ И МИРОВЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ
ТЕСТОВЫЕ ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ДИСЦИПЛИНЕ
“Лексикология английского языка”
для специальности 050119- “Иностранный язык: два иностранных языка”
Составитель:
к.ф.н .доцент Булатова С.М.
Алматы, 2007
Лексикология _01_ENG.doc
001 A morpheme is
A) the smallest meaningful unit of form
B) the basic unit of a language
C) a cliché
D) a collocation
E) an abbreviation
$$$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
$$$003 Structurally morphemes fall into
A) root morphemes
B) stem morphemes
C) prefixational morphemes
D) suffixational morphemes
E) free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes
$$$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
$$$005 A stem is
A) a functional affix
B) a derivational affix
C) a prefix
D) a suffix
E) the part of the word that remains unchanged through its paradigm
$$$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
$$$007 An allomorph is
A) a positional variant of a morpheme
B) an affix placed within a word
C) an ultimate constituent of a word
D) an association of a given meaning with a given sound
E) a common element of words
$$$008 Proof in the word fireproof is
A) an infix
B) a semi-affix
C) an allomorph
D) a suffix
E) an inflection
$$$009 Friend is a
A) bound morpheme
B) semi-free morpheme
C) semibound morpheme
D) free morpheme
E) morphol
$$$010 Which of the following lines has diminutive suffixes
A) heroine, actress
B) booklet, girlie
C) poetic, picturesque
D) cloudy, girlish
E) funny, sunny
$$$011 The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have
A) a free stem
B) a bound stem
C) a semi-bound stem
D) a semi-free stem
E) a compound stem
$$$012 Isotope is a
A) historism
B) common colloquial word
C) neologism
D) jargonism
E) vulgarism
$$$013 Which of the following lines have derived stems
A) story-teller, match-box, friendly
B) beautiful, girlish, activate
C) distance, experiment, sequence, police
D) ache, cup, look
E) chortle, goody-goody, UNO
$$$014 Morphemes occur as
A) constituents of sentences
B) constituents of words
C) constituents of sounds
D) constituents of phrases
E) free forms
$$$015 Words which consist of a root and an affix (or affixes) are
A) derived words
B) root words
C) compound words
D) curtailed words
E) blendings
$$$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
$$$017 A prefix is
A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root
B) a derivational morpheme following the stem
C) a common element of words within a word-family
D) an affix placed within the word
E) a combining form
$$$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
$$$019 An infix is
A) a derivationl morpheme preceding the root
B) a derivational morpheme following the stem
C) a common element of words within a word-family
D) an affix placed within the word
E) a combining form
$$$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
$$$021 Derivational affixes serve
A) to form different words
B) to convey grammatical meaning
C) to build different forms of one and the same word
D) to form only neologisms
E) to connect parts of blendings
$$$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
$$$023 Derivatives include
A) one free morpheme
B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
C) not less than two free morphemes
D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
E) a group of words
$$$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
Лексикология_02_ ENG.doc
$$$025 Word-formation is the process of creating
A) root morphemes
B) affixation morphemes
C) grammatical forms of a word
D) new words
E) bound stems
$$$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
$$$027 Archer, phaeton are
A) historisms
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
$$$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
$$$029 What is clipping
A) the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts
B) the result of adding affixes to free stems
C) the result of merging parts of words into one new word
D) the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words
E) the result of shortening and compounding
$$$030 Which word-building ways are similar to compounding
A) affixation
B) sound imitation
C) conversion
D) back formation
E) blending and reduplication
$$$031 What is blending
A) telescoping, reduplication
B) sound and stress interchange
C) back-formation
D) sound imitation
E) affixation
$$$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
$$$033 Coarse words that are not generally used in public are
A) slangs
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
$$$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
$$$035 Shortening is
A) a common element of words
B) a derived word
C) the smallest meaningful unit
D) a significant subtraction of a word
E) blending
$$$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
$$$037 Derivational compounds are
A) words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group
B) derivational morphemes standing before the root
C) elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary
D) compound words that have affixes
E) words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages
$$$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
$$$039 According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are
A) simple
B) shortened
C) compound
D) derived
E) blendings
$$$040 Words jersey, pullover are
A) slang words
B) neologisms
C) obsolete words
D) terms
E) international words
$$$041 The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is
A) to point out the number of morphemes
B) to state the derivational pattern of the given word
C) to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem
D) to state the meaning of the word
E) to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its
meaning
$$$042 Wall newspaper is a
A) familiar quotation
B) saying
C) metaphor
D) metonymy
E) translation loan
$$$043 Define the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar
A) lexicalization
B) blending
C) back formation
D) shortening
E) sound imitation
$$$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
$$$045 Which of these nouns are derived from verbs
A) a pain, a tramp, a button
B) a pen , a weekend, a drink
C) a break, a catch, a jump
D) a cook, a button, a monkey
E) a fall, a windglass, an act
$$$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
$$$047 Find the line with asyntactic compounds
A) bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor
B) know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale
C) door-handle, day-time, time-table
D) a green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists
E) oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown
$$$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
$$$049 The underlined words in the following sentences: "How often do you milk the cows", "Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs." "He began to nose about like an old bloodhound." are cases of
A) allusion
B) conversion
C) cliché
D) metaphor
E) euphemism
$$$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
$$$051 Compound words are maid of
A) one free morpheme
B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
C) not less than two morphemes
D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
E) a group of words
$$$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
$$$053 Form or functional words comprise
A) auxiliary verbs
B) prepositions
C) conjunctions
D) relative adverbs
E) all this group
$$$054 Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are
A) derivatives
B) compounds
C) compound derivatives
D) simple words
E) synonyms
$$$055 The word TV is a case of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) abbreviation
E) sound interchange
$$$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
$$$057 Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of coordinative compounds
A) ICs are semantically and structurally equally important
B) ICs are structurally equally important
C) ICs are semantically equally important
D) ICs are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance
E) they are made up only with the help of a linking element
$$$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
$$$059 Which of the following lines contain cases of back formation
A) to envy, to escape, to lose
B) to trust, to finger, to learn
C) to show, to lift, to chat
D) chortle, brunch, smog
E) to baby-sit, to beg, to cobble
$$$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
$$$061 Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion
A) adjectives
B) adverbs
C) pronouns
D) verbs and nouns
E) numerals
$$$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
$$$063 The word exam is a case of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) sound-interchange
E) onomatopoeia
$$$064 The words lab and laboratory are different in
A) structure
B) stylistics
C) meaning
D) affixation
E) derivation
$$$065 The words TV, T.B. are cases of
A) clipping
B) blending
C) back-formation
D) abbreviation
E) sound interchange
$$$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
$$$067 Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation
A) word-composition
B) conversion
C) affixation
D) word-derivation
E) back-formation
$$$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
$$$069 Connotational component is
A) the grammatical meaning of the word
B) the denotational meaning of the word
C) the emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word
D) the lexical meaning of the word
E) the sound form of the word
$$$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
$$$071 Adding derivational affixes to stem is called
A) affixation
B) acronym
C) abbreviation
D) reduplication
E) sound interchange
$$$072 What kind of clipping is the word “math”
A) final clipping
B) initial clipping
C) medial clipping
D) reduplication
E) sound interchange
$$$073 The following words hell, damn, shut up are
A) terms
B) dialectical words
C) slang
D) vulgarisms
E) synonyms
$$$074 The word dogged is
A) root word
B) derivative
C) compound
D) compound derivative
E) morpheme word
$$$075 Jargonisms are
A) words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic
character
B) common colloquial words
C) professionalisms
D) vulgarisms
E) barbarisms
$$$076 The word “story” is an example of
A) final clipping
B) initial clipping
C) medial clipping
D) reduplication
E) sound interchange
$$$077 mis , dis are
A) infixes
B) prefixes
C) interfixes
D) suffixes
E) inflections
$$$078 The word brunch( breakfast+lunch) was formed with the help of
A) sound-interchange
B) shortening
C) conversion
D) affixation
E) blending
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$$$079 Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with
A) differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication
B) the phonemic shape of words
C) the grammatical function of words
D) a positional mobility of words within a sentence
E) the study of word meaning
$$$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
$$$081 A metonymy is
A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity
B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity of meaning
C) specialization of meaning
D) degradation or of meaning
E) amelioration of meaning
$$$082 Euphemism is
A) the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones
B) a taboo
C) an irony
D) an ellipsis
E) litotes
$$$083 The White House, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a euphemism
D) an irony
E) litotes
$$$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
$$$085 The words deer (O.E. 'wild beast'), meat (O.E. 'food') are cases of
A) widening of the meaning
B) pejoration of the meaning
C) amelioration of the meaning
D) specialization of meaning
E) generalization of the meaning
$$$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
$$$087 Which of the following words are homonyms proper
A) sea (n) - see (v)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) tear (n) - tear (v)
D) bank (n) - bank (n)
E) knight (n) –night (n)
$$$088 Head of a cabbage is
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a saying
D) a euphemism.
E) a proverb
$$$089 Metonymy is based on
A) narrowing of meaning
B) contiguity of meaning
C) pejoration of meaning
D) amelioration of meaning
E) extention of meaning
$$$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
$$$091 The word combinations a long distance, a long speech, a short path, a short time are cases of metaphor based upon
A) the analogy between duration of time and space
B) similarity of shape
C) similarity of behaviour
D) similarity of function
E) similarity in position
$$$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
$$$093 Choose the line with total (complete or absolute) synonyms
A) pretty, handsome, beautiful
B) functional affix, inflection, flexion
C) to eat, to partake, to peck
D) capable , skillful, qualified
E) companion, friend, associate
$$$094 Choose the line with the derivational antonyms
A) careful –careless
B) slow –fast
C) correct - incorrect –wrong
D) temporary-permanent
E) enemy –friend
$$$095 Choose the letter with mixed antonyms
A) final –first
B) safety –danger
C) active - passive –inactive
D) temporary –permanent
E) slow –quick
$$$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
$$$097 Choose the line with the case of a hyperbole
A) the White House
B) thousand pardons
C) mother tongue
D) the leg of the table
E) grass green
$$$098 Seeds of evil is
A) metonymy
B) simile
C) litotes
D) metaphor
E) epithet
$$$099 Choose the letter with homophones
A) night (n) - knight (n)
B) tear (n) - tear (v)
C) lead (n) - lead (v)
D) wind (n) - wind (v)
E) new (adj) –old (adj)
$$$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
$$$101 Choose the line with homonyms proper
A) ball (n) - ball (n)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) check (n) - cheque (n)
D) been (v)- bean (n)
E) bear (n) –bear (v)
$$$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
$$$103 Choose the line with the case of a metaphor
A) the Pentagon
B) the bonnet of the car
C) to kick the bucket
D) at all
E) tick-tack
$$$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
$$$105 What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have
A) the lexical meaning
B) the grammatical meaning of plurality
C) the stylistic coloring
D) the denotational meaning
E) the connotational meaning
$$$106 The words: swish, splash are
A) phonetically motivated
B) semantically motivated
C) morphologically motivated
D) non-motivated
E) graphically motivated
$$$107 Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)
A) idiom
B) euphemism
C) hybrid
D) etymological doublet
E) metonymy
$$$108 Set expression “tooth and nail” functions like a (an)
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
E) preposition
$$$109 “I have told you 50 times” is an example of a
A) metonymy
B) metaphor
C) euphemism
D) hyperbole
E) litotes
$$$110 Words to commence, to compute are
A) learned words
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
$$$111 “Doctor, medical man”,and “scientist, scholar” are
A) ideographic synonyms
B) stylistic synonyms
C) antonyms
D) total synonyms
E) partial synonyms
$$$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
$$$113 To err is human is a (an)
A) cliché
B) proverb.
C) idiom.
D) free phrase.
E) familiar quotation.
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$$$114 Phraseology studies
A) lexical homonyms
B) graphical abbreviations
C) synonyms and anlonyms
D) free word-combinations and phraseological units
E) phrasal verbs
$$$115 Lexical valency is the ability of a word
A) to appear in various word combinations
B) to lose its meanings
C) to appear in various grammatical structures
D) to acquire new meanings
E) to generalize its meaning
$$$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
$$$117 Choose the line with set expressions that function like interjections
A) in the pink
B) by heart
C) cat's paw
D) by hook or by crook
E) Oh Boy! My God!
$$$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
$$$119 Choose the definition of a phraseological unit
A) words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units
B) any prepositional or postpositional phrases
C) the smallest two-facet language unit
D) functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups
E) the basic unit of a language
$$$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
$$$121 Vinogradov's classification of phraselogical units is based on
A) the criterion of function
B) the criterion of motivation
C) the criterion of idiomaticity
D) the criterion of fixed context
E) the theory of word equivalence
$$$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
$$$123 Choose the line describing the distinctive feature of proverbs
A) proverbs function as independent units of communication
B) proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement
C) proverbs are completely non-motivated
D) proverbs function as word-equivalents
E) proverbs function as word-groups
$$$124 The last straw breaks the camel's back is
A) euphemism
B) taboo
C) free word-group
D) a cliché
E) a proverb
$$$125 An idiom is
A) an expression or phrase the meaning of which is different from the literal
meanings of its components
B) a free word-group
C) a proverb
D) a familiar quotation
E) a saying
$$$126 According to the semantic classification word-groups fall into
A) motivated and non-motivated
B) movable
C) immovable
D) communicative
E) non-communicative
$$$127 Classification of phraseological units cannot be based on
A) the degree of idiomaticity
B) contextual approach
C) functional approach
D) on a combination of the functional, semantic and structural features
E) only on the structural principle
$$$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
$$$129 Choose the line with the synonymous phraseological units
A) through thin and thin; by hook or by crook; for love or money
B) in the soup; in the pink; under a cloud
C) to show one's cards; to look through one's fingers; to show the white feather
D) to take the bull by the horns; to wear one's heart on one's sleeve; to kill the goose
that laid the golden eggs
E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public; jack in the box; Jack of all trades
$$$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
$$$131 Choose one of the following lines with the sentence that has an idiom.
A) there are two possible explanations about the origin of this famous phrase
B) "why can't the mayor just cut all the red tape and let us have a parade without a
permit"
C) some idioms originated as colloquialisms or slang
D) some idioms were well-known proverbs and short sayings that express practical,
basic truth
E) it’s time to go to bed
$$$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
$$$133 A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a
A) cliché
B) proverb
C) eset-expression
D) phraseological unit
E) idiom
$$$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
$$$135 Complete the idiom "as like as two…" using one of the following words
A) peas
B) bears
C) twins
D) nuts
E) cucumbers
$$$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
$$$137 Complete the following idiom as sly as
A) a cat
B) a fox
C) a rock
D) an owl
E) a rose
$$$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
$$$139 Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation
A) to come into fashion
B) to kick the bucket
C) to show one’s teeth
D) red tape
E) to bear malice
$$$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
$$$141 A phraseological fusion is
A) a partially motivated word-group
B) a completely non-motivated word-group
C) a partially non-motivated word-group
D) a motivated word-group
E) a completely motivated word-group
$$$142 To know the way the wind blows is
A) phraseological unity
B) phraseological fusion
C) phraseological combination
D) familiar quotation
E) proverb.
$$$143 Red flower is a (an)
A) set phrase
B) idiom
C) phraseological unit
D) free word-group
E) word-equivalent
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$$$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
$$$145 Hybrids are
A) idiomatic compounds
B) removal of all functional and derivational elements
C) words which are made after existing patterns
D) words made up of constsituents from two or more different languages
E) the smallest meaningful units
$$$146 Words borrowed from one language into several other languages are called
A) borrowings
B) euphemisms
C) synonyms
D) international
E) toponyms
$$$147 Which of the following words are native English
A) devoid, interrogate, stomach
B) vacuum, question, abdomen
C) empty, ask, belly
D) finish, complete, ascend
E) compare, cry, commence
$$$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
$$$149 What does the native element of the English vocabulary consist of
A) Latin and Celtic elements
B) Celtic, Germanic and Scandinavian elements
C) Indo-European and Germanic elements
D) Indo-European and Celtic elements
E) Celtic and Scandinavian elements
$$$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
$$$151 Which of the following words are of French origin
A) empty, ask, belly
B) afternoon, and, ask
C) beau, commence, chauffeur
D) hyena, home, husband
E) hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan
$$$152 The words ballet, buffet corps, bouquet, cliché are borrowings from
A) Latin
B) Indian
C) Spanish
D) French
E) Scandinavian
$$$153 Choose the line with native English.
A) vacuum, exist, act
B) machine, parachute, valley
C) xylophone, epoch, chemist
D) confetti, macaroni, tobacco
E) summer, hope, life
$$$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
$$$155 The word unmistakable has constituents originated from
A) 4 languages
B) 2 languages
C) 3 languages
D) 1 language
E) 5 languages
$$$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
$$$157 The words “cheese, street, wall, wine” belong to the earliest layer of ______ borrowings
A) Indian
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) French
E) Japanese
$$$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.
$$$159 The following words pyjamas khaki, mango, bungalow which became international came from.
A) Australia;
B) New Zealand;
C)India
D) Canada;
E) The USA.
$$$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
$$$161 Choose the line where all the words have American spelling.
A) travelling, centre, colour, offence
B) jewellery, woolen, favour, metre
C) armour, although, fibre, monologue
D) humor, theater, program, thru
E) telegramme, center, picturesque, favour
$$$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
$$$163 Concept is
A) a referent
B) an object
C) a sound-form
D) a meaning
E) a thought
$$$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.
$$$165 The following definition "coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat" is an entry from
A) an explanatory dictionary
B) a dictionary of word-frequency
C) a bilingual dictionary
D) a dictionary of pronunciation
E) an etymological dictionary
$$$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
$$$167 Word frequency dictionary is
A) unilingual dictionary
B) multilingual dictionary
C) bilingual dictionary
D) thesaurus
E) concordance
$$$168 Which dictionary gives information about extra-linguistic world
A) bilingual dictionaries
B) translation dictionaries
C) glossaries
D) thesaurus
E) encyclopedia
$$$169 Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words are
A) general dictionaries
B) special dictionaries
C) glossaries
D) rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries
E) etymological dictionaries
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$$$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
$$$171 Glossaries are
A) unilingual books that give definitions of terms
B) thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors.
C) word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in
another language.
D) dictionaries explaining origin of words
E) dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge
$$$172 Dictionaries of American English are
A) explanatory dictionaries
B) etymological dictionaries
C) general dictionaries
D) dictionaries of synonyms
E) specialized dictionaries
$$$173 The main problems in lexicography are connected with
A) selection of lexical units and arrangement and setting of the entries
B) selection and arrangement of meaning and definition of the last
C) illustrative examples and choice of adequate equivalents
D) selection and arrangement of word-derivations within a word family
E) all the problems mentioned above
$$$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
$$$175 Lexicography deals with
A) the word-making process in English
B) classification of loan words
C) variants of the English language
D) the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
E) the etymological background of the English word stock
$$$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
$$$177 Dictionaries of toponyms are
A) general
B) dictionaries of the most difficult words
C) specialized dictionaries
D) dictionaries of frequency
E) explanatory dictionaries