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Sound imitation is:

The naming of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a sound association with it.

The derivation of new words by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from existing words.

Opposition of words or word-forms.

Lexical abbreviation.

Reduction of a word to one of its parts.

A phraseological fusion is:

A completely non-motivated word-group.

A partially motivated word-group.

A partially non-motivated word-group.

A motivated word-group.

A free word-group.

Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation?:

Back-formation.

Word-composition.

Conversion.

Affixation.

Word-derivation.

Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping?:

Story, phone, cello.

T-shirt, H-bomb, V-day.

Flu, fridge, tech.

Babble, chatter, giggle.

Beg, housekeep, butler.

Which of the following sound-imitative words are interjections?:

Bang!, hush!, pooh!

Purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do.

Quack, moo, buzz.

Hiss, gibber, bray.

Clash, crash, whip.

"Thesaurus" means:

A collection of words put in groups together according to likeness in their meaning.

A dictionary of abbreviations.

An etymological dictionary.

A list of explanations of words, especially unusual ones at the end of a book.

An alphabetical list of words used in a book or collection of books by one writer.

Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin?:

-ist, -ism, -ite.

-dom, -hood,-ly.

-able, -ible, -ant-ous.

-age, -ful, -ence.

-anti, -dom, -ful.

Barbarisms are:

Partially assimilated words.

Completely assimilated words.

Semantically assimilated words.

Words which are not assimilated.

Grammatically assimilated words.

Which of the following words are of French origin?:

Beau, commence, chauffeur.

Empty, ask, belly.

Afternoon, and, ask.

Hyena, home, husband.

Hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan.

The words chase, chieftain, chortles are borrowings from:

Parisian French.

Latin.

Indian

Spanish.

Scandinavian.

Which of the following words are native English?:

Summer, hope, life.

Vacuum, exist, act.

Machine, parachute, valley.

Xylophone, epoch, chemist.

Confetti, macaroni, tobacco .

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

Completely assimilated words.

Partially assimilated words.

Barbarisms.

Unassimilated words.

Neologisms.

Which of thew given words stand for the American variant of the word flat?:

Apartment.

Mansion.

Hut.

Room.

Cabin.

Which of the following words is the British variant of the American “fall”?:

Autumn.

Spring.

Winter.

Summer.

Season.

According to which word-formation way the Americanisms electronic, automaniac, Gerrymander were created?:

Blending or telescoping.

Shortening.

Reduplication.

Compounding.

Back-formation.

What is the meaning of-scribe in the words transcribe, subscribe, describe, inscribe?:

Write.

Read.

Spell.

QSay.

Print.

The morphemic analysis applies the method of:

UC's.

ICs.

Statistical analysis.

Structural analysis.

Etymological analysis.

Which of the following words is the case of a metaphor?:

The bonnet of the car.

The Pentagon.

То kick the bucket.

At all.

Tick-tack.

Semantic motivation is:

A direct connection between the central and marginal meanings of the word.

The relationship between the morphemic structure and meaning of the word.

A direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning;

A connection between the root and affixational morphemes.

A connection between the components of the word.

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

Occasional conversion.

Traditional conversion.

Metaphor.

Metonymy.

Humor.

(3) Which part of Lexicology studies the evolution of vocabulary?

Historical lexicology.

General lexicology.

Special lexicology.

Descriptive lexicology.

Specialized lexicology.

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

Blending.

Sound-interchange.

Shortening.

Conversion.

Affixation.

(5) To err is human is a (an)

Cliche.

Proverb.

Idiom.

Free phrase.

Familiar quotation.

To know the way the wind blows is

Familiar quotation.

Phraseological unity.

Phraseological fusion.

Phraseological combination.

Proverb.

Which dictionary gives information about extra-linguistic world?

Encyclopedia.

Bilingual dictionaries.

Translation dictionaries.

Glossaries.

Thesaurus.

Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words are

Special dictionaries.

General dictionaries.

Glossaries.

Rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries.

Etymological dictionaries.

Frequency dictionary is

Unilingual dictionary.

Multilingual dictionary.

Bilingual dictionary.

Thesaurus.

Concordance.

The Barnhart Dictionary of New English covers words, phrases which came into the vocabulary of English language during the period of

1963-1972.

1983-1990.

1990-1995.

1990-2000.

1985-1997.

What is polyglot?

Multilingual dictionary.

Glossary.

Specialized dictionary.

Encyclopedia.

Bilingual dictionary.

Explanatory dictionary can also be called

Encyclopedia.

Bilingual dictionary.

Translation dictionary.

Glossary.

Unilingual dictionary.

How many semantic structures does a compound word possess

A single semantic structure.

Two semantic structures.

Three semantic structures.

Four semantic structures.

Five semantic structures.

Dead and alive are

Contradictories.

Contraries.

Incompatibles.

Etymological doublets.

Hybrids.

Words swish, splash are.

Phonetically motivated.

Semantically motivated.

Morphologically motivated.

Non-motivated.

Graphically motivated.

Archer, phaeton are

Historicisms

Common colloquial words

Dialectical words

Jargonisms

Vulgarisms

What are substitutes which people use for “offensive”, impolite or rude word:

euphemisms

metaphors

formal words

archaisms

What way of word-forming does the word “extra – territorial” belong to

derivation

compounding

conversion

word-composition

Translate the phraseological unit “to kick the bucket”:

сыграть в ящик

забить гол

дать тумака

добить

Find noun-forming affixes:

– ance, - ness, - age, - dom, - hood, - er

– ness, - less, - age, - hood, - ous, - dom

– dom, - ance, - ese, - ing, - hood, - nees

– er, - ness, - less, - age, - hood, - ire

Find prefixes of negative meaning:

un-, in-dis-,ir-

un-,dis-,pre-,re-

re-,un-,in-,dis-

re-,super-,in-,dis-

The process of adopting words from other languages is called:

borrowing

loan-translation

adoption

compounding

Words different in sound form but similar in their denotational meaning are:

synonyms

homographs

antonyms

homonyms

Etymology studies:

word-origin

word-forming

etiquette

word-collocability

Find homonyms of the word “right”:

write

left

correct

night

What does semasiology study?

word-meaning

word-formation

phraseological units

etymology

How many dialects did OE consist of?

4

2

7

6

5

How many classes are the strong verbs in OE divided into?

7

2

10

5

12

How many classes are the weak verbs in OE divided into?

3

14

2

7

9

The category of Tense in OE consisted of the following sets of forms:

Present &Past

Present & Future

Future &Past

Past Perfect &Present Perfect

Present Perfect & Future

The history of the English language is customary divided into … periods:

3

4

14

8

2

What settlement of Britain can be regarded as the beginning of English?

the Germanic settlement

the Celtic settlement

the Roman settlement

the Danes settlement

the Danish settlement

England was christianized in

597 A.D

283 A.D.

600 A.D.

998 A.D.

1200

What was the number of runes in the OE runic alphabet?

28

44

36

24

30

Out of the 23 Latin letters British scribes employed … .

19 letters

20 letters

15

7

10

What was the greatest poem of the time, an epic of the 7^th or 8^th century?

Beowulf

The Wanderer

The Traveller’s Song

The Seafarer

Widsith

What direction of the changes of OE vowels is referred to is palatalization?

a> ?

a > 0

0>a

e>a

ō> ?

Gender was represented by the following distinct groups of nouns:

Masculine, Feminine & Neuter

Neuter & Feminine

Feminine

Masculine & Neuter

Masculine

The category of case was represented by …..cases:

4

6

2

8

3

The declensions of nouns known as the strong declensions comprised:

a-stems, o-stems, u-stems, i-stems

a-stems, n-stems

i-stems

r-stems, nd-stems

o- stems, wo-stems

How many endings were employed in the noun paradigms?

8

6

13

3

9

The category of mood was constituted by:

the Imperative, Indicative, Subjunctive

the Indicative

the Indicative & the Subjunctive

the Subjunctive

the Imperative

How many non-finite forms were there in the OE verb system?

2

3

5

7

1

The majority of verbs in Germanic languages fell under ……large groups:

7

2

10

3

5

Class 1 of OE strong verbs is called:

i-class

n-class

u-class

h- class

a-class

Class 2 of OE weak verbs is known as:

a-stems

i-stems

n-stems

o-stems

nd-stems

In OE there were ……preterit-presents:

4

25

12

11

16

All Germanic languages, old and new, are divided into the following subgroups:

West and South

East and West

North and West

North, East and West

North, West and South

The modern languages of the West Germanic Subgroup are:

Swedish, Danish, Flemish

Danish, Dutch, English

Flemish, Faroese

Yiddish, Frisian, Afrikaans

English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Flemish, the Low German dialects.

OE period lasts till:

the 10^th century

the 5^th century

the 2d c

the 15th century

the 8^th cent\

The means of form- building employed were as follows:

suffixes, sound alternations, prefixes, suppletive formations

prefixes, suppletive formations

grammatical endings

sound alternations, prefixes

grammatical endings, suppletive formations