L. T. Kilevaya Doctor of Philological Sciences, Docent

UDK 811.111 BBK 81.2Анг.

ISBN 978-601-04-0044-3
© Dzharasova T.T., Rskeldieva D.B., 2020
© KazNU al-Farabi, 2020

TESTS

Midterm control №1

1^st variant

№1. Lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies …

1. 
   the grammatical system of a language
   
2. 
   the vocabulary of a language
   
3. 
   the phonemic shape of words
   
4. 
   the history of a language
   
5. 
   the relations between the language and social life.
   

№2. The root of the word is …

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

№3. The evolution of vocabulary forms is the object of …

1. 
   historical lexicology
   
2. 
   descriptive lexicology
   
3. 
   special lexicology
   
4. 
   general lexicology
   
5. 
   specialized lexicology
   

№4. Word-formation is the process of creating …

1. 
   lexical homonyms
   
2. 
   affixal phonemes
   
3. 
   different kind of dictionaries
   
4. 
   new words
   
5. 
   root-morphemes
   

№5. A prefix is …

1. 
   a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative
   
2. 
   an internal structure.
   
3. 
   a derivational morpheme preceding the root
   
4. 
   a common element of words within a word–family
   
5. 
   an affix placed within the word