№17. Which words are associated with the printed page?
Slang
All answers are correct
Colloquialisms
Dialectisms
Learned
№18. Define the word with American English spelling.
encyclopaedia
specialty, cozy
centre, theatre
favourite
honour, colour
№19. Complete the simile “as gentle as a ...”
feather
wolf
fox
lamb
bee
№20. A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a…
cliché
proverb
set-expression
phraseological unit
idiom
№21. Phraseology studies …
lexical homonyms
graphical abbreviations
synonyms and antonyms
free word-combinations and phraseological units
phrasal verbs
№22. The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in …
Phonetics
Lexicography
Phraseology
Lexicology
Grammar
№23. Lexical valency is the ability of a word
to appear in various word combinations
to lose its meanings
to appear in various grammatical structures
to acquire new meanings
to generalize its meaning
№24. The system of grammatical forms characteristic of a word is called…
a paradigm
an inflection
formatives
valency
a word formation
№25. As brave as a …
Dog
Tiger
Cow
Bull
Lion
№26. Actions speak louder than …
Phrases
Proverbs
Words
Sentences
Texts
№27. Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation?
to come into fashion
to kick the bucket
to show one’s teeth
red tape
to bear malice
№28. Choose the line with set expressions that function like interjections
in the pink
by heart
cat's paw
by hook or by crook
Oh Boy! My God!
№29. Local variation of Standard English
Colloquial
Dialect
Slang
Term
Euphemism
№30. Frequency dictionary is a
Concordance
General dictionary
Special dictionary
Thesaurus
Multilingual dictionary
№31. Define the language from what the word “Blitzkrieg” is borrowed …
French
Italian
Russian
German
Latin
№32. Pronouncing dictionaries record only …
Semantic features of words
Neologisms
Pronunciation
Origin of words
Historical development of words
№33. The toponyms: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Utah are…
Indian words (of Indian tribes)
Spanish words
German words
French words
Italian words
Dictionaries with the explanation in another language are…
Multilingual
Glossaries
Bilingual
Polylingual
Monolingual
№35. Choose the definition of a phraseological unit
words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units
any prepositional or postpositional phrases
the smallest two-facet language unit
functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups
the basic unit of a language
№36. Dictionaries of American English are …
general dictionaries
etymological dictionaries
special dictionaries
dictionaries of synonyms
explanatory dictionaries
№37. A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a …
cliché
proverb
set-expression
phraseological unit
idiom
№38. Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms are …
Glossaries
special dictionaries
general dictionaries
rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries
etymological dictionaries
№39. The words glamour, kilt, raid, came into English from…
The Scottish dialects;
Cockney;
The Irish dialect ;
Australian English;
Canadian English
№40. Point out the informal style of speech.
professional terminology
official letter
colloquial words
learned words
literary
№41. What is a slang word?
a man
kid
pound
a child
good
№42. Define the total idiomatic compound word
highway
flower-bed
money-box
butter-finger
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…
praseological word-groups
praseological unities
praseological fusions
praseological units
praseological combinations
№44. Glossaries are …
thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors
unilingual books that give definitions of terms
word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in another language
dictionaries explaining origin of words
dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge
№45. Choose the line describing the distinctive feature of proverbs
proverbs function as word-equivalents
proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement
proverbs are completely non-motivated
proverbs function as independent units of communication
proverbs function as word-groups
№46. Choose the line with the synonymous phraseological units
through thin and thin; by hook or by crook; for love or money
in the soup; in the pink; under a cloud
to show one's cards; to look through one's fingers; to show the white feather
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?
it is the figurative meaning of the synonymic set
indecent, rude, too direct meaning of synonymic group
a ready-made, stable synonyms
when the connotational meaning is equal to denotational
a central word which meaning is equal and common to all the synonymic group
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