L. T. Kilevaya Doctor of Philological Sciences, Docent

№17. Which words are associated with the printed page?

1. 
   Slang
   
2. 
   All answers are correct
   
3. 
   Colloquialisms
   
4. 
   Dialectisms
   
5. 
   Learned
   

№18. Define the word with American English spelling.

1. 
   encyclopaedia
   
2. 
   specialty, cozy
   
3. 
   centre, theatre
   
4. 
   favourite
   
5. 
   honour, colour
   

№19. Complete the simile “as gentle as a ...”

1. 
   feather
   
2. 
   wolf
   
3. 
   fox
   
4. 
   lamb
   
5. 
   bee
   

№20. A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a…

1. 
   cliché
   
2. 
   proverb
   
3. 
   set-expression
   
4. 
   phraseological unit
   
5. 
   idiom
   

№21. Phraseology studies …

1. 
   lexical homonyms
   
2. 
   graphical abbreviations
   
3. 
   synonyms and antonyms
   
4. 
   free word-combinations and phraseological units
   
5. 
   phrasal verbs
   

№22. The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in …

1. 
   Phonetics
   
2. 
   Lexicography
   
3. 
   Phraseology
   
4. 
   Lexicology
   
5. 
   Grammar
   

№23. Lexical valency is the ability of a word

1. 
   to appear in various word combinations
   
2. 
   to lose its meanings
   
3. 
   to appear in various grammatical structures
   
4. 
   to acquire new meanings
   
5. 
   to generalize its meaning
   

№24. The system of grammatical forms characteristic of a word is called…

1. 
   a paradigm
   
2. 
   an inflection
   
3. 
   formatives
   
4. 
   valency
   
5. 
   a word formation
   

№25. As brave as a …

1. 
   Dog
   
2. 
   Tiger
   
3. 
   Cow
   
4. 
   Bull
   
5. 
   Lion
   

№26. Actions speak louder than …

1. 
   Phrases
   
2. 
   Proverbs
   
3. 
   Words
   
4. 
   Sentences
   
5. 
   Texts
   

№27. Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation?

1. 
   to come into fashion
   
2. 
   to kick the bucket
   
3. 
   to show one’s teeth
   
4. 
   red tape
   
5. 
   to bear malice
   

№28. Choose the line with set expressions that function like interjections

1. 
   in the pink
   
2. 
   by heart
   
3. 
   cat's paw
   
4. 
   by hook or by crook
   
5. 
   Oh Boy! My God!
   

№29. Local variation of Standard English

1. 
   Colloquial
   
2. 
   Dialect
   
3. 
   Slang
   
4. 
   Term
   
5. 
   Euphemism
   

№30. Frequency dictionary is a

1. 
   Concordance
   
2. 
   General dictionary
   
3. 
   Special dictionary
   
4. 
   Thesaurus
   
5. 
   Multilingual dictionary
   

№31. Define the language from what the word “Blitzkrieg” is borrowed …

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

№32. Pronouncing dictionaries record only …

1. 
   Semantic features of words
   
2. 
   Neologisms
   
3. 
   Pronunciation
   
4. 
   Origin of words
   
5. 
   Historical development of words
   

№33. The toponyms: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Utah are…

1. 
   Indian words (of Indian tribes)
   
2. 
   Spanish words
   
3. 
   German words
   
4. 
   French words
   
5. 
   Italian words
   

34. Dictionaries with the explanation in another language are…

    1. 
       Multilingual
       
    2. 
       Glossaries
       
    3. 
       Bilingual
       
    4. 
       Polylingual
       
    5. 
       Monolingual
       

№35. Choose the definition of a phraseological unit

1. 
   words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units
   
2. 
   any prepositional or postpositional phrases
   
3. 
   the smallest two-facet language unit
   
4. 
   functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups
   
5. 
   the basic unit of a language
   

№36. Dictionaries of American English are …

1. 
   general dictionaries
   
2. 
   etymological dictionaries
   
3. 
   special dictionaries
   
4. 
   dictionaries of synonyms
   
5. 
   explanatory dictionaries
   

№37. A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a …

1. 
   cliché
   
2. 
   proverb
   
3. 
   set-expression
   
4. 
   phraseological unit
   
5. 
   idiom
   

№38. Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms are …

1. 
   Glossaries
   
2. 
   special dictionaries
   
3. 
   general dictionaries
   
4. 
   rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries
   
5. 
   etymological dictionaries
   

№39. The words glamour, kilt, raid, came into English from…

1. 
   The Scottish dialects;
   
2. 
   Cockney;
   
3. 
   The Irish dialect ;
   
4. 
   Australian English;
   
5. 
   Canadian English
   

№40. Point out the informal style of speech.

1. 
   professional terminology
   
2. 
   official letter
   
3. 
   colloquial words
   
4. 
   learned words
   
5. 
   literary
   

№41. What is a slang word?

1. 
   a man
   
2. 
   kid
   
3. 
   pound
   
4. 
   a child
   
5. 
   good
   

№42. Define the total idiomatic compound word

1. 
   highway
   
2. 
   flower-bed
   
3. 
   money-box
   
4. 
   butter-finger
   
5. 
   blacklist
   

№43. Word-groups with a completely changed meaning, they are not motivated the meaning cannot be deduced from the meanings of the constituent parts are called…

1. 
   praseological word-groups
   
2. 
   praseological unities
   
3. 
   praseological fusions
   
4. 
   praseological units
   
5. 
   praseological combinations
   

№44. Glossaries are …

1. 
   thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors
   
2. 
   unilingual books that give definitions of terms
   
3. 
   word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in another language
   
4. 
   dictionaries explaining origin of words
   
5. 
   dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge
   

№45. Choose the line describing the distinctive feature of proverbs

1. 
   proverbs function as word-equivalents
   
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 independent units of communication
   
5. 
   proverbs function as word-groups
   

№46. Choose the line with the synonymous phraseological units

1. 
   through thin and thin; by hook or by crook; for love or money
   
2. 
   in the soup; in the pink; under a cloud
   
3. 
   to show one's cards; to look through one's fingers; to show the white feather
   
4. 
   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
   

Е. to wash one’s dirty linen in public; jack in the box; Jack of all trades

№47. What is the dominant synonym?

1. 
   it is the figurative meaning of the synonymic set
   
2. 
   indecent, rude, too direct meaning of synonymic group
   
3. 
   a ready-made, stable synonyms
   
4. 
   when the connotational meaning is equal to denotational
   
5. 
   a central word which meaning is equal and common to all the synonymic group
   

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