Note: for some questions you must choose more than one variant!

NOTE: FOR SOME QUESTIONS YOU MUST CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE VARIANT!
1. According to G. B. Antrushina, the word can be defined as a unit of
A) lexicology B) language and speech
C) communication and lexicology D) speech and communication
2. Choose the morphemes which constitute the external structure of the word POSTIMPRESSIONISTS
A) all of them B) ion, ist C) pre, im D) s, ion E) s, ist
3. On the paradigmatic level, the word is studied in its relationships with other words in the ...
A) syntagmatic level B) speech flow C) vocabulary system D) morphemic structure
4. Words which consist of a root and an affix (or several affixes) are called ............
A) derived words B) compound words C) root words D) complicated words
5. From the etymological point of view affixes are classified into the same two groups which called....
A) native and derived B) archaic and borrowed
C) native and borrowed D) suffix, prefix, infix
6. Find the homonymic word in the given senctence.
"A tailor guarantees to give each of his customers a perfect fit."
A) fit B) tailor C) give D) customer E) perfect
7. Homographs are ...
A) the same spelling but different in sound B) the same in sound but different in spelling.
C) the same in meaning different in spelling D) the same spelling and sound different in meaning
8. Professor A. I. Smirnitsky classified homonyms into
A) three: homonyms proper, native homonyms, borrowed homonyms C) two: homophones, homographs
B) three: homonyms proper, homophones, homographs D) two: full homonyms, partial homonyms
9. Choose the connotation meaning of the word GAZE
A) by stealth B) in surprise, curiosity
C) in anger, rage, fury D) in tenderness, admiration, wonder
10. Academician V. V. Vinogradov defined ideographic synonyms as ...
A) which he defined as words conveying the same concept but differing in shades of meaning
B) differing in stylistic characteristics
C) coinciding in all their shades of meaning and in all their stylistic characteristics
D) which can be changeable only in context according to the idea they possess and serve to other constituent parts in the speech flow
11. Choose the dominant synonym. (Antrushina’s examples)
A) to shout B) to yell
C) to bellow D) to roar
12. Choose the dominant synonym. (Antrushina’s examples)
A) to tremble B) to shiver
C) to shudder D) to shake
13. Choose the dominant synonym. (Antrushina’s examples)
A) horror B) terror C) fear
14. Choose the correct idiom. to rudely ignore somebody; to pretend not to know or recognise him"
A) To drop a brick B) cut somebody dead C) bark up the wrong tree D) To carry coals
15. ______________________ relations define the meaning the word possesses when it is used in combination with other words in the flow of speech.
A) contextual B) paradigmatic C) syntagmatic D) transformational
16. Phraseological unities are
A) motivated but they are made up of words possessing specific lexical valency which accounts for a certain degree of stability in such wordgroups.
B) completely nonmotivated wordgroups
C) partially nonmotivated as their meaning can usually be perceived through the metaphoric meaning of the whole phraseological unit.
17. Choose correct examples of phraseological fusions given in Ginzburg R. S.
A) heavy father B) kick the bucket C) to show one’s teeth D) bear malice
E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public F) bear a grudge G) take a likin H) take hatred
18. Choose correct examples of phraseological collocations given in Ginzburg R. S.
A) heavy father B) kick the bucket C) to show one’s teeth D) bear malice
E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public F) bear a grudge G) take a liking H) take hatred
19. Choose correct examples of French borrowings according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) air B) place C) true D) gay E) drop F) brave
20. Choose correct examples of written borrowings according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) inch B) belleslettres C) street D) communiqué E) mill F) naïveté
21. Find the synonym of Celtic origin word “colleen”
A) girl B) boy C) colleague D) collection
22. Aphaeresis is
A) Word that have been shortened at the end
B) Word that have been shortened at the beginning
C) Word in which some syllables or sounds have been omitted from the middle
D) Word that have been clipped both at the beginning and at the end
23. Choose the correct examples of apocope according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) ad (from advertisement) B) lab (from laboratory) C) mike (from microphone)
D) car (from motorcar) E) phone (from telephone) F) copter (from helicopter)
G) maths (from mathematics) H) pants (from pantaloons) I) specs (from spectacles)
J) fridge (from refrigerator)
24. How many volumes does the encyclopedia The Encyclopaedia Britannica have?
A) 24 B) 30 C) 15 D) 12
25. How many volumes does the encyclopedia The Chamber’s Encyclopedia have?
A) 24 B) 30 C) 15 D) 12
26. Choose the encyclopedia intended for students and school teachers
A) The Encyclopaedia Britannica B) The Encyclopedia Americana
C) Collier’s Encyclopedia D) Chamber’s Encyclopaedia
E) Everyman’s Encyclopaedia
27. Choose the encyclopedia designed for allround use
A) The Encyclopaedia Britannica B) The Encyclopedia Americana C) Collier’s Encyclopedia
D) Chamber’s Encyclopaedia E) Everyman’s Encyclopaedia
28. _________________designed for English speaking writers, orators or translators seeking to express their ideas adequately contain words grouped by the concepts expressed.
A) Ideographic dictionaries B) Etymological dictionaries
C) Pronouncing dictionaries D) reversed dictionaries
29. what types are there in classification system for synonyms according to Russian scholar, Academician V. V. Vinogradov ?
A) ideographic, stylistic, absolute B) ideographic, total, interchangeable
C) total, absolute, contextual D) absolute, contextual, stylistic
30. Choose the dominant synonym. (Antrushina’s examples)
A) to astound B) to astonish C) to amaze D) to surprise
31. Choose the dominant synonym. (Antrushina’s examples)
A) angry B) furious C) enraged
32. ….. is a stable wordgroup characterised by a completely or partially transferred meaning definition given by Professor A. V. Koonin.
A) phraseological unit B) idiom C) free word group D) connotation
33. Phraseological fusions are
A) motivated but they are made up of words possessing specific lexical valency which accounts for a certain degree of stability in such wordgroups.
B) partially nonmotivated as their meaning can usually be perceived through the metaphoric meaning of the whole phraseological unit.
C) completely nonmotivated wordgroups
34. Phraseological collocations are
A) partially nonmotivated as their meaning can usually be perceived through the metaphoric meaning of the whole phraseological unit.
B) motivated but they are made up of words possessing specific lexical valency which accounts for a certain degree of stability in such wordgroups.
C) completely nonmotivated wordgroups
35. Choose correct examples of phraseological unities given in Ginzburg R. S.
A) heavy father B) kick the bucket C) to show one’s teeth D) bear malice
E) to wash one’s dirty linen in public F) bear a grudge G) take a liking H) take hatred
36. Translation loans are
A) words and expressions formed from the material available in the language after the patterns characteristic of the given language, but under the influence of some foreign
words and expressions
B) immediate source of borrowing is naturally of greater importance for language students because it reveals the extralinguistic factors responsible for the act of borrowing, and also because the borrowed words bear, as a rule, the imprint of the sound and graphic form, the morphological and semantic structure characteristic of the language they were borrowed from
C) contend that due to the large additions to its vocabulary from different languages
D) great number of compound and derived words in modern English, the diversity of their patterns, the stability and productivity of the patterns and the appearance of new ones testify to the contrary
37. Choose correct examples of oral borrowings according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) naïveté B) mill C) communiqué D) street E) belleslettres F) inch
38. Apocope is
A) Word that have been shortened at the end
B) Word that have been shortened at the beginning
C) Word in which some syllables or sounds have been omitted from the middle
D) Word that have been clipped both at the beginning and at the end
39. Syncope is
A) Word that have been shortened at the end
B) Word that have been shortened at the beginning
C) Word in which some syllables or sounds have been omitted from the middle
D) Word that have been clipped both at the beginning and at the end
40. Choose the correct examples of aphaeresis according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) ad (from advertisement) B) lab (from laboratory) C) mike (from microphone) D) car (from motorcar) E) phone (from telephone) F) copter (from helicopter)
G) maths (from mathematics) H) pants (from pantaloons) I) specs (from spectacles)
J) fridge (from refrigerator)
41. Choose the correct examples of syncope according to Ginzburg R. S.
A) ad (from advertisement) B) lab (from laboratory) C) mike (from microphone)
D) car (from motorcar) E) phone (from telephone) F) copter (from helicopter)
G) maths (from mathematics) H) pants (from pantaloons) I) specs (from spectacles)
J) fridge (from refrigerator)
42. How many volumes does the encyclopedia The Encyclopedia Americana have?
A) 24 B) 30 C) 15 D) 12
43. How many volumes does the encyclopedia The Everyman’s Encyclopedia have?
A) 24 B) 30 C) 15 D) 12
44. Choose the family type reference book
A) The Encyclopaedia Britannica B) The Encyclopedia Americana C) Collier’s Encyclopedia D) Chamber’s Encyclopaedia E) Everyman’s Encyclopaedia
45. Choose dictionary of neologisms written in 1953?
A) Berg P. A Dictionary of New Words in English B) Reifer M. Dictionary of New Words
C) The Barnhart Dictionary of New English D) The RussianEnglish Dictionary
46. Terrorist is borrowed from
A) Latin B) Scandinavian C) German D) Romanian E) Old Norse F) French
47. The branch of lexicology specialising in wordgroups which are characterised by stability of structure and transferred meaning is called .....
A) phraseology B) word building C) onomasiology D) semasiology
48. All morphemes are subdivided into two large classes:
A) roots and affixes B) affixes and suffixes
C) morphemes and phonemes D) paradigmatics and syntagmatics
49. ..... is part of the word consisting of root and affix
A) stem B) base C) compound words D) complicated words
50. What makes a new word from some existing word by changing the category of a part of speech, the morphemic shape of the original word remaining unchanged?
A) conversion B) shortening C) derivation D) compounding

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