Тесты по "Лексикологии"

 

193. Barbarisms are

1. words which are not assimilated
2. completely assimilated words
3. semantically assimilated words
4. partially assimilated words
5. grammatically assimilated words

 

194. Functional suffixes can be called

1. endings
2. prefixes
3. infixes
4. suffix
5. interfixes

 

195. The word dogged is

1. derivative
2. root word
3. compound
4. compound derivative
5. morpheme word

196. Which of the following dictionaries are general ones

1. unilingual and bilingual dictionaries
2. dictionaries of derivation, antonyms, borrowings
3. dictionaries of slang
4. dictionaries of American English dialect
5. dictionaries of toponymy

197. Suffixes –able, -ible are of

1. of Latin origin
2. French origin
3. Scandinavian origin
4. native suffixes
5. of German origin

 

198. The specific feature of Cockney is

1. rhyming slang
2. shortening
3. sound-interchange
4. reduplication
5. blending

 

199. The system of the grammatical forms of a word is

1. a paradigm
2. a root
3. a stem
4. grammatical
5. a syntax

 

200.            What kind of clipping in the word “math”

1. final clipping
2. media clipping
3. initial clipping
4. reduplication
5. sound interchange

 

201.            Metonymy is based on

1. contiguity of meaning
2. harrowing of meaning
3. pejoration of meaning
4. amelioration of meaning
5. extention of meaning

 

202.            Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following

1. thousand pardons
2. the White House
3. mother tongue
4. the leg of the table
5. grass green

 

203.    Dictionaries of toponyms are

1. special dictionaries
2. general
3. dictionaries of the most difficult words
4. dictionaries of frequency 
5. explanatory dictionaries

 

204.            Which of the following line has words belonging to terminology

1. telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor
2. lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome
3. a book, a shop, a suite, a street
4. to go to bed, to get up, to have breakfast, to clean
5. three, above, are, far, straight

 

205.            A proverb is

1. a saying expressing some well-known truth
2. a familiar quotation
3. a free word-group
4. a verb-adverb combination
5. a traditional compound

 

206.             Complete the following idiom as sly as

1. a fox
2. a cat
3. a cock
4. a mouse
5. an owl

 

207.           Hybrids are

1. words made up of affixes from two or more different languages
2. idiomatic compounds
3. removal of all functional and derivational elements
4. words which are made after existing patterns
5. the  smallest meaningful units

 

208.           Lass, Kirk are examples of

1. vulgarism
2. slang
3. common colloquial words
4. dialectical words
5. jargonism

 

209.             Structurally morphemes fall into

1. free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound, morphemes
2. root morphemes
3. stem morphemes
4. prefixational morphemes
5. suffixational morphemes

 

210.            Home is a

1. free morpheme
2. bound morpheme
3. semi-free morpheme
4. semi-bound morpheme
5. affix

 

211.             Sound imitation is

1. onomatopeia
2. the derivation of new words by subtraction of real or supposed affix from existing words
3. opposition of words or word-forms
4. lexical abbreviations
5. reduction of a word to one of its parts  

 

212.               Euphemism is

1. the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones

B0 metaphor

2. an irony
3. an ellipsis
4. litotes

 

213.              Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

1. the association of similarity
2. contiguity of meaning
3. pejoration of meaning
4. amelioration of meaning
5. extention of meaning

 

214.                Jargonisms are

1. words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character
2. common colloquial words
3. professionalisms
4. vulgarisms
5. barbarisms

 

215. “Strong-willed” and “warm-hearted” are…

1. Compound-derivatives
2. Root words
3. Derived words
4. Compound words.
5. All answers are correct

 

216. “The FBI” is an example of …

1. Abbreviation
2. clipping
3. Blending
4. Conversion
5. Slang

217. “Truth” and “lie” are…

1. Absolute antonyms
2. Derivational antonyms
3. Relative antonyms
4. Never used as antonyms
5. Synonyms

218. The interjections “Wow!”, “Gee!” have…

1. No meaning at all
2. Only a grammatical meaning
3. Only a denotational meaning
4. Only a connotational meaning
5. Only phonetical meaning

 

219. The words “circle”, “to encircle”, “circular” represent …

1. different parts of speech 
2. synonyms
3. hyponyms
4. compounds
5. synonyms

 

220. “All that glitters is not gold” is…

1. A proverb
2. Ordinary sentence
3. A word combination
4. A free phrase
5. A set phrase

 

221. To make, to fabricate are

1. Synonyms
2. Homonyms
3. Historisms
4. Hyponyms
5. Antonyms

 

222.The pattern of the expression “by hook or by crook” is…translated as

1. adverb
2. adjective
3. noun
4. verb
5. subject

 

223.”Skin”, “sky”, “skate” are of … origin.

1. Scandinavian
2. Latin
3. Celtic
4. Native
5. German

224.Military terms were borrowed from …

1. Latin
2. Spanish 
3. French
4. Italian
5. Russian

 

225.”Skin-deep” and “true-blue” are…

1. Compound words
2. Derived words
3. Compound derivatives
4. Root words
5. All answers are correct

 

226.Sound interchange is…

1. A non-productive type of word-formation
2. A highly productive type of word-formation
3. Widely-spread in English
4. Never used in word-formation
5. All answers are correct

 

 

227.               Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of proverbs

1. proverbs function as independent units of communication
2. proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement
3. proverbs are completely non-motivated
4. proverbs function as word-equivalents
5. proverbs function as word-groups

 

228.              The words “pipe of peace”, “pale face” were borrowed from

1. Indian language
2. Latin language
3. Greek language
4. French language
5. Japanese language

 

229.               The words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international come from

1. India
2. New Zealand
3. Australia
4. Canada
5. the USA

 

230.            What is polyglot?

1. multilingual dictionary
2. glossary
3. specialized dictionary
4. encyclopedia
5. bilingual dictionary

 

231.            The root of the word is

1. the basic part of a word  to which affixes are added
2. the basic unit of a language
3. a derivational affix
4. a grammatical paradigm
5. a derived stem

 

232.             Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

1. principle and productive ways of forming new words
2. non-productive ways of word-formation
3. minor types of word-building
4. morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words
5. inner stracture

 

233.             Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation

1. back-formation
2. word-composition
3. conversion
4. affixation
5. word-derivation

 

234.            What is the connotational meaning

1. the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

2. the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes
3. the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words
4. the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words
5. the denotational meaning

 

235.            The Ak Orda, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of

1. a metonymy
2. a metaphor
3. a euphemism
4. an irony
5. litotes

 

236.           Which of the following words are homophones

1. night (n) – knight (n)
2. tear (n) – tear (v)
3. lead (n) – lead (v)
4. wind (n) – wind (v)
5. new (adj) – old (adj)

 

237.            What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have

1. the grammatical meaning of plurality
2. the lexical meaning
3. the stylistic coloring
4. the denotational meaning
5. the connotational meaning

 

238.           “I have told you 10 times” is an example of a

1. hyperbole
2. metonymy
3. metaphor
4. euphemism
5. litotes

 

239.            The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problem in

1. lexicography
2. lexicology
3. phonetics
4. phraseology
5. grammar

 

240.            Which of the following words are of French origin

1. beau, commence, chauffeur
2. empty, ask, belly
3. afternoon, and, ask
4. hyena, home, husband
5. hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan

 

241.            Which of the following words are native English

1. summer, hope, life
2. vacuum, exist, act
3. machine, parachute, valley
4. xylophone, epoch, chemist
5. confetti, macaroni, life

 

242.            A stem is

1. an unchanged part of the word
2. a functional affix
3. a derivational affix
4. a prefix
5. a suffix

 

243.             Suffix  -er is

1. productive and active
2. non-productive and active
3. active
4. productive
5. productive and non-active

 

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

1. by means of changing the category of parts of speech
2. by joining two or more stems together

3. by adding word-building affixes to stems

4. by combining parts of two words
5. by shortening a written word or phrase

 

245.            Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

1. minor types of word making
2. productive ways of word-building
3. principal ways of word-building
4. ways of making up phraseological units
5. ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

 

246.Define borrowing not completely assimilated phonetically

1. Rajah
2. Shah
3. Cheese
4. Face
5. Animal

 

247.Define antonym to the word “below”

1. Under
2. Over
3. Up
4. Middle
5. Left

 

248.Define the synonym to the word “sunny”

1. Solar
2. Urban
3. Rural
4. Fraternal
5. Paternal