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What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words: monolingual, monosyllable, monologue
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A) One.
B) Many.
C) All.
D) Every.
E) Each.
39. Check for the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar
A) Lexicalization.
B) Blending.
C) Back formation.
D) Shortening.
E) Sound imitation.
40. 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) Smoke, brunch, clap.
41. 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 windlass, an act.
42. Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes?:
A) Heroine, actress.
B) Booklet, hanky.
C) Poetic, picturesque.
D) Cloudy, girlish.
E) Funny, sunny.
43. Which of the following compounds are non-transparent?:
A) Bookcase, weekend, bottle-opener.
B) Wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull's-eye.
C) Stone-cold, care-free, knowledge-greedy.
D) Center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist.
E) Steamship, round-faced, sword-fish.
44. The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have:
A) A free stem.
B) A bound stem.
C) Asemi-bound stem.
D) A semi-free stem.
E) A compound stem.
45. Check for 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.
46. -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.
47. What is motivation?:
A) The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning.
B) The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its sound-form.
C) The connection between the structural pattern of the word and the referent.
D) The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its graphical form.
E) The connection between the meaning of the word and referent.
48. What is the lexical meaning?:
A) The meaning proper to sets of word-forms common to all words of a certain class.
B) The component of meaning which makes communication possible.
C) The meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions.
D) The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes.
E) The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words.
49. What is the denotational meaning?:
A) The component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words.
B) The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes.
C) The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words.
D) The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible.
E) The connotational meaning.
50. What is the connotational meaning?:
A) The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes.
B) The component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words.
C) The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words.
D) The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words.
E) The denotational meaning.
51. What is context?:
A) The structural patterns of phrases.
B) The derivational patterns of words.
C) The minimal stretch of speech determining each individual meaning of the word.
D) A set of words united by the identity of the root.
E) A group of non-motivated words.
52. What is polysemy?:
A) The ability of words to coincide in their sound forms.
B) The existence of contrastive meanings within a word.
C) The existence within one word of several connected meanings.
D) The existence of only one meaning within words.
E) Words with opposite meanings.
53. What are homonyms?:
A) Words with identical sound and graphic forms.
B) Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form.
C) Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
D) Words coinciding in some shades of meaning.
E) Words with opposite meanings.
54. What are synonyms?:
A) Words with identical sound and graphic forms.
B) Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form.
C) Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
D) Words with contrastive meanings.
E) Words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings.
55. What are antonyms?:
A) Words different in sound and graphic form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning.
B) Words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings.
C) Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
D) Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form.
E) Words with identical sound and different in their graphic forms.
56. Stylistic synonyms are:
A) Two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation.
B) Words which differ in shades of meaning.
C) Words which differ in connotations;.
D) Words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
E) Words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form.
57. Ideographic synonyms are:
A) Words conveying the same notion but differing in shades of meaning.
B) Words which differ in connotations.
C) Words which differ in all kinds of emotional, expressive and evaluative overtones.
D) Words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form.
E) Words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
58. Absolute (or complete) synonyms are:
A) Words coinciding in all their shades of meaning and in all their stylistic characteristics.
B) Words conveying the same notion but differing in shades of meaning.
C) Words which differ in connotations.
D Words conveying the same notion but differing in shades of meaning.
E) Words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning.
59. Sources of synonyms are:
A) Native and borrowed words.
B) Shortening.
C) Conversion.
D) Euphemisms.
E) All the above mentioned cases.
60. Homographs are:
A) Words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning.
B) Words identical in sound-form but different both in spelling and in meaning.
C) Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning.
D) Words identical in meaning but different in spelling.
E) Words identical in spelling and sound-form meaning but different in meaning.
61. Homophones are:
A) Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning.
B) Words identical in meaning but different in spelling.
C) Words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning.
D) Words identical in sound-form but different both in spelling and in meaning.
E) Words identical in spelling and sound-form meaning but different in meaning..
62. Perfect homophones are:
A) Words identical in spelling and sound-form but different in meaning.
B) Words identical in sound-form but different both in spelling and in meaning.
C) Words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning.
D) Words identical in meaning but different in spelling.
E) Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning.
63. Grammatical meaning is:
A) The meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions.
B) The meaning proper to sets of word-forms common to all words of a certain class.
C) The component of the lexical meaning that makes communication possible.
D) The connotational meaning.
E) The denotational meaning.
64. A metaphor is:
A) A transfer of name based on the association of similarity.
B) A transfer based upon the association of contiguity.
C) A shift of names between things that are known to be in some way or other connected in reality.
D) Degradation of meaning.
E) Amelioration of meaning.
65. A metonymy is:
A) A transfer of name based on the association of similarity.
B) A transfer based upon the association of contiguity.
C) A shift of names between things that are known to be in some way or other connected in reality.
D) Degradation or of meaning.
E) Amelioration of meaning.
66. Euphemism is:
A) the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones.
B) A taboo.
C) An irony.
D) An ellipsis.
E) Litotes.
67.The White House, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of:
A) A metaphor.
B) A metonymy.
C) A euphemism.
D) An irony.
E) Litotes.
68.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.
69. 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.
70. Check for 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.
71. 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).
72. Head of a cabbage is:
A) A metaphor.
B) A metonymy.
C) A saying.
D) A euphemism.
E) A proverb.
73. Metonymy is based on:
A) Harrowing of meaning.
B) Contiguity of meaning.
C) Pejoration of meaning.
D) Amelioration of meaning.
E) Extention of meaning.
74. 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.
75. 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.
76. Lexical valency is the aptness 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.
77. Grammatical valency is the aptness 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.
78. Which of the following set expressions function like interjections?:
A) As mad as a hatte.
B) By heart.
C) Cat's paw.
D) By hook or by crook
E) Oh Boy! My God!
79. 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.
80. What is 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.
81. 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.
82. 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.
83. A proverb is:
A) A short familiar saying expressing some well-known truth.
B) A familiar quotation.
C) A free word-group.
D) A verb-adverb combination.
E) Traditional phrases.
84. Which of the following statements is 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.
85. The last straw breaks the camel's back is:
A) Euphemism
B) Taboo.
C) Free word-group.
D) A cliché.
E) A proverb.
86. 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 cliché.
E) A saying.
87. According to the semantic classification word-groups fall into:
A) Motivated and non-motivated.
B) Movable.
C) Immovable.
D) Communicative.
E) Non-communicative.
88. 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.
89. Complete the following idiom of comparison as busy as …:
A) As busy as a bee.
B) As busy as a mouse.
C) As busy as a frog.
D) As busy as a dove.
E) As busy as an ant.
90. Which of the following phraseological units are synonymous?:
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; mad as a hatter; Jack of all trades.
91. 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) Аusion.
B) Сonversion.
C) Cliché.
D) Metaphor.
E) Euphemism.
92. The stem of root or morpheme words contains:
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.
93. 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.
94. Compound words contain:
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.
95. Compound 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.
96. Form or functional words comprise:
A) Auxiliary verbs.
B) Prepositions.
C) Conjunctions.
D) Relative adverbs.
E) All this group.
97. Which of the following line 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.
98. 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.
99. Which of the following line 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.
100. 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.
101. Meaning is:
A) The relation between the object or notion named, and the name itself.
B) Stylistic coloring of the word.
C) An expression in speech of relationship between words based on contrastive features of arrangements in which they occur.
D) The syntactic valency.
E) The sound form.
102. Which of the following synonymic groups belong to total (complete or absolute) synonymy?:
A) Pretty, handsome, beautiful.
B) Functional affix, inflection, flexion.
C) To eat, to partake, to peck
D) Capable, skillful, qualified.
E) Companion, friend, associate.
103. Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are:
A) Derivatives.
B) Compounds.
C) Compound derivatives.
D) Simple words.
E) Synonyms.
104. Which of the following sentences 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.
105. Which of the following antonyms are derivational?:
A) Careful – careless.
B) Slow – fast.
C) correct - incorrect – wrong.
D) Temporary-permanent.
E) Enemy – friend.
106. Which of the following antonyms are mixed antonyms?:
A) Final – first.
B) Safety – danger.
C) Active - passive – inactive.
D) Temporary – permanent.
E) Slow – quick
107. 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.
108. The following words hell, damn, shut up are:
A) Terms.
B) Dialectical words.
C) Slang.
D) Vulgarisms.
E) Synonyms.
109. Connotational component is:
A) The grammatical meaning of the word.
B) 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.
110. 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.
111. (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.
112. 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.
113. 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) Вictionaries explaining origin of words;.
E) Dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge.
114. Dictionaries of American English are:
A) Explanatory dictionaries.
B) Etymological dictionaries.
C) General dictionaries.
D) Dictionaries of synonyms.
E) Specialized dictionaries.
115. 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.
116. 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.
117.Dictionaries of American English, dialect and slang dictionaries are:
A) Bilingual.
B) Unilingual.
C) Multilingual.
D) Encyclopedic.
E) Glossaries.
118. 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 sictionaries.
C) Dictionaries of word frequency.
D) Dictionaries of slang.
E) Reverse dictionaries.
119. Dictionaries of toponyms are:
A) General dictionaries.
B) Dictionaries of the most difficult words.
C) Special dictionaries.
D) Dictionaries of frequency.
E) Explanatory dictionaries.
120. 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.
121. The following definition " coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat" is an entry from:
A) A descriptive dictionary.
B) A pronunciation dictionary.
C) A bilingual dictionary.
D) A dictionary of pronunciation.
E) An etymological dictionary.
122.Explanatory dictionaries provide information about:
A) The semantic features of lexical units.
B) The grammatical features of lexical units.
C) The stylistic features of lexical units.
D) The etymological features of lexical units.
E) All the above mentioned features of lexical units.
123. The encyclopedic dictionaries are:
A) Thin-books that give information about the extra-linguistic world.
B) Unilingual books that give definitions of terms.
C) Dictionaries explaining the origin of words.
D) Word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in another language.
E) Multilingual dictionaries.
124. American English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English are:
A) Dialects.
B) Separate languages.
C) Variants of English, its regional or territorial variety having neither grammar nor vocabulary of its own.
D) Artificial languages.
E) Variants of English, its regional or territorial variety having its own grammar and vocabulary.
125. What is Cockney?:
A) The British Standard English.
B) One of the best known southern dialects (the regional dialect of London).
C) The Scottish variant of English.
D) An artificial language.
E) The Irish dialect.
126. The words TV is a case of:
A) Clipping.
B) Blending.
C) Back-formation.
D) Abbreviation.
E) Sound interchang.
127. Varieties of the English language peculiar to some districts and having no normalized literary form are:
A) Local dialects.
B) Variants of English.
C) Separate languages.
D) Dialectisms.
E) Artificial language.
128. Which of the following words are international?:
A) Coffee, mango, sputnik, radio.
B) Farm, video, friend, man.
C) Bungalow, blitz, masterpiece, money.
D) Radio, wonder-child, country, pen.
E) Escalator, car, park, television.
129. 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 fields of the language system.
130. Nothern, Midland, Eastern, Western and Southern as dialects exist in:
A) New Zealand.
B) Australia.
C) The USA.
D) Great Britain.
E) Canada.
131. The words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international come from:
A) India.
B) New Zealand.
C) Australia.
D) Canada.
E) The USA.
132. Words borrowed from one language into several other languages are called:
A) Borrowings.
B) Euphemisms.
C) Synonyms.
D) International.
E) Toponyms.
133. The words glamour, kilt, raid came into English from:
A) The Scottish dialect.
B) Cockney.
C) The Irish dialect.
D) Australian English.
E) Canadian English.
134. The specific feature of Cockney is:
A) Rhyming slang.
B) Shortening.
C) Sound-interchange.
D) Reduplication.
E) Blending.
135. Check for 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.
136..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.
137. The following words dormitory, fall, elevator, apartment are typical for:
A) Standard English.
B) American English.
C) Cockney.
D) Canadian English.
E) Slang.
138. 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.
139. The system of the grammatical forms of a word is:
A) A stem.
B) A root.
C) Grammatical.
D) A paradigm.
E) A syntax.
140. A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a:
A) Cliché.
B) Proverb.
C) Set-expression.
D) Phraseological unit.
E) Idiom.
141. The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is:
A) Shortening.
B) Conversion.
C) Blending.
D) Compounding.
E) Back-formation.
142. 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.
143. 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.
144. Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin?
A) -dom, -hood, -ly.
B) -able, -ible, -ant, -ous.
C) -age, -ful, -ence.
D) -ist, -ism, -ite.
E) –anti, -dom, -ful.
145. Red tape, mare's nest are:
A) Phraseological fusions.
B) Phraseological unities.
C) Phraseological combinations.
D) Proverbs.
E) Familiar quotations.
146. 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.
147.Which of the following words are syntactic compounds?:
A) Shoeblack, bluebottle, red-hot, whitehot.
B) Seashore, hardball, whitehead, black shirt.
C) Blue pencil, babysitting, slow coach.
D) Heartbreaking, shipbuilding, whitehot.
E) Whitehead, heartburning, shilly-shally.
148. Which of the following words are case of back formation?:
A) To burgle, to envy, to escape.
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.
149. Complete the idiom " like as …" using one of the following words:
A) Peas.
B) Bears;
C) Twins;
D) Nuts;
E) Cucumbers.
150. What is the difference between the derivational and functional suffix?:
A) A derivational suffix precedes and a functional suffix follows the root.
B) Both of them precede the root.
C) Both type 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.
151. Omission of a word or words considered for grammatical completeness but not for the conveyance of the intended lexical meaning is called:
A) Ellipsis.
B) Blend.
C) Portmanteau word.
D) Shortening.
E) Acronym.
152. Which of the following dictionaries are general ones?:
A) Dictionaries of derivations, antonyms, borrowings.
B) Etymological, frequency, phonetical, rhyming dictionaries.
C) Dictionaries of slang.
D) Dictionaries of American English dialect.
E) Dictionaries of toponymy.
153. Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes?
A) Mini-car, mini-skirt, mini-crisis.
B) Auntie, nightie, manikin.
C) Drunkard, gangster, underling.
D) Poetic, picturesque.
E) Lowly, sunny, wonderful.
154. What is the similarity between a set-expression and a word?:
A) Both words and set-expressions possess figurative meanings.
B) Both words and set-expressions possess semantic unity.
C) They have no similarity at all.
D) They both are grammatically variable.
E) They are completely similar.
155. Proof in the word fireproof is:
A) An infix.
B) A semi-affix.
C) An allomorph.
D) A suffix.
E) An inflection.
156. Which of the following words have derived stems?:
A) Story-teller, match-box, friendly.
B) Beautiful, girlish, activate.
C) Distance, experiment, sequence, police.
D) Take, cup, look.
E) Chortle, goody-goody, UNO.
157. An exaggerated statement not meant to be understood literally but expressing an intensely emotional attitude of the speaker to what he is speaking about is called:
A) Hyperbole.
B) Exaggeration.
C) Irony.
D) Metaphor.
E) Litotes.
158. Synonyms for the word to hope is:
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.
159. Ideographic dictionaries are designed for:
A) English speaking writers, orators, seeking to express their ideas.
B) Those who look for improving pronunciation.
C) Those who are interested in phraseological units.
D) Children.
E) Language learners.
160. Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following:
A) The White House.
B) Thousand pardons.
C) Mother tongue.
D) The leg of the table.
E) Grass green.
161. Complete the following idiom as sly as…:
A) A cat.
B) A fox.
C) A rock.
D) An owl.
E) A rose.
162. Seeds of evil is:
A) Metonymy.
B) Simile.
C) Litotes.
D) Metaphor.
E) Epithet.
163. 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.
164. 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.
165. Which of the following words are 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.
166. Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion?:
A) Adjectives.
B) Adverbs.
C) Pronouns.
D) Verbs and nouns.
E) numerals.
167. Grammatical meaning is the component of meaning proper to:
A) Words.
B) Parts of the sentence.
C) Parts of speech.
D) Sets of word-forms.
E) Affixes.
168. 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) Red tape.
E) To come into fashion.
169. How many semantic sructures 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.
170. Concept is:
A) A thought.
B) An object.
C) A sound-form.
D) A meaning.
E) A referent.
171. Which of the following words are 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.
172. The word exam is a case of:
A) Clipping.
B) Blending.
C Back-formation.
D) Sound-interchange.
E) Onomatopoeia.
173. 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.
174. 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.
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