6.2.3 Образцы тестовых заданий (с ключами)

Тест 1

1. Answer the following question: What parts of speech function as head words in a phrase?

A infinitives, nouns, adverbs

B prepositions, verbs, nouns

C adjectives, conjunctions, participles

2. According to what criterion are sentences divided into simple, complex and compound?

A the number of words in the sentence

B the purpose of utterance

C the number of predicative lines

3. What syntactic process is realized on a phrase-level?

A contamination

B modification

C complication

4. To what part of speech does the word ‘just’ may be assigned in the following sentence:

He has just come to see if the experiment is finished or not.

A adjective

B particle

C adverb

5. What part of speech is ‘since’ in the following question:

Since when haven’t you seen your parents?

A conjunction

B preposition

C adverb

6. To what part of speech does the word ‘open’ belong to in the sentence: At this moment the back door flung open?

A verb

B stative

C adjective

7. What part of speech is ‘up’ in the following sentence: They rolled up the carpet.

A postpositional adverb

B preposition

C postlog

8. What is the role interaction not connected with?

A the character of objective relations between the objects of reality

B the category of verb voices

C the noun cases

9. Injunctive pragmatic type expresses one’s

A request

B directions

C order

10. What syntactic process is expressed in the following sentence:

The true adventurer watched a fascinating scene there.

A complication

B modification

C elimination

11. What method of linguistic analysis is presented in the following sentence:

The ׀׀ lecturer ׀ used ׀׀ a ׀׀׀׀ lot ׀׀׀ of ׀׀׀׀ scientific ׀׀׀׀ terms.

A oppositional

B IC-analysis

C distributional

12. Identify the type of genitive in “a man’s voice”

A the genitive of dispensed qualification

B the genitive of received qualification

C the genitive of agent

13. The indirect meaning of the sentence includes:

A inference

B explicitness

C a phrase

14. Transitional types of sentences include:

A sentences with complexes of secondary predication

B sentences with indendent subordinate clauses

C sentences with mutually subordinated clauses

15. The process of substitution is presented in English by substantivization and representation:

A yes

B no

16. Which of the following is considered on the level of a phrase, not a sentence:

A an adverb

B an attribute

C an apposition

17. What morphemes are distinguished on the basis of self-dependence?

A overt and covert

B free and bound

C form-building and word-building

18. To which of the following types does the phrase ‘a shivering girl’ belong?

A equipotent

B coordinate

C dominational

19. Potential ability of linguistic elements to pattern with one another is called

A sequence

B valency

C government

20. According to the theory of Bloomfield the phrase ‘irregular features’ belongs to

A exocentric

B endocentric

C progressive

21. Retrospectively connected sentences are characterized by

A epiphoric

B cataphoric

C anaphoric cohesion

22. The opposite for ‘adjectivization’ is

A nominalization

B substantivization

C representation

23. The it-subject in the sentence: ‘What a cold winter it was!’ is:

A emphatic

B impersonal

C anticipatory

24. The type of the phrase ‘definitely alike’ is:

A adverbial

B stative

C adjectival

25. What kind of grammatical category is presented in the following opposition:

has lived :: had been living?

A tense

B temporal correlation

C aspect

26. Comment on the categorical nature of the following opposition:

the man’s umbrella vs a man’s umbrella

A the category of number

B the category of case

C the category of determination

27. What verb categories are not observed in non-finite forms of the verb?

A person

B mood

C tense

6.2.2.1 Ключи к тесту 1

KEYS to TEST 1

1 – A	10 – B	19 – B
2 – C	11 – B	20 – B
3 – B	12 – A	21 – C
4 – B,C	13 - A	22 – B
5 – B	14 – A	23 – B, A
6 – C	15 – B	24 – B
7 – A,B,C	16 – B	25 – A,C
8 – C	17 – B	26 – C
9 – C	18 – C	27 – A,B,C

Тест 2

Section 1

Which of the variants doesn’t suit the given description:

1. The menacive pragmatic type of sentence is characterized by:

А the future-time reference