Тест по дисциплине: «Theory of the English Language» (Теория языка)

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«Theory of the English Language» (Теория языка)

<question>The English language belongs to the … family of languages.

<variant>Germanic

<variant>Romance

<variant>Turkic

<variant>Slavonic

<variant>German

<question>The development of the English language began in the … century AD.

<variant>5^th

<variant>11^th

<variant>3^rd

<variant>10^th

<variant>1066

<question>Britain was invaded by three Germanic tribes:

<variant>the Jutes, the Angles, the Saxons

<variant>the Celts, the Romans, the Jutes

<variant>the Angles, the Goths, the Vandals

<variant>the Teutons, the Saxons, the Franks

<variant>the Saxons, the Franks, the Vindils

<question>The Norman Conquest took place in …

<variant>1066

<variant>5^th c.

<variant>7^th c.

<variant>1477

<variant>1476

<question>Printing was introduced into England by…

<variant>William Caxton

<variant>William the Conqueror

<variant>William Shakespeare

<variant>Edward the Confessor

<variant>Johann Guttenberg

<question>Julius Caesar tried to invade Britain in …

<variant>55 BC

<variant>1066

<variant>5^th c. AD

<variant>43 AD

<variant>499 AD

<question>Say which word among the given below is Middle English.

<variant>Zephyrus

<variant>hūs

<variant>cīld

<variant>macian

<variant>norÞ

<question>The noun in OE had the categories of …

<variant>gender, number and case

<variant>tense and time

<variant>aspect and voice

<variant>grammar and semantics

<variant>adverbial modifiers

<question>Words, having more than one meaning, are called…

<variant>polysemantic

<variant>homonyms

<variant>synonyms

<variant>antonyms

<variant>etymological doublets

<question>Words originating from the same etymological source, but different in phonetic form and in meaning are called:

<variant>etymological doublets

<variant>synonyms

<variant>palindromes

<variant>antonyms

<variant>polysemantic words

<question>Dictionaries containing words and expressions of the native language and their foreign equivalents or vice-versa are called:

<variant>bilingual

<variant>unilingual

<variant>etymological

<variant>dictionaries of synonyms

<variant>spelling dictionaries

<question>Words different in sound form and spelling but similar in meaning are traditionally

called…

<variant>synonyms

<variant>antonyms

<variant>homonyms

<variant>etymological doublets

<variant>acronyms

<question>In the following sentence: ‘The picture is nailed to the wall’ the word nailed (to nail) is

built by means of …

<variant>conversion

<variant>back-formation

<variant>affixation

<variant>word-composition

<variant>stress-interchange

<question>Find a pair of homophones:

<variant>to meet - meat

<variant>to lead – lead (свинец)

<variant>to lead – lid

<variant>height – hide

<variant>peak – pike

<question>Find a pair of perfect homonyms:

<variant>bank – bank

<variant>to lead – lead

<variant>to hide – hid

<variant>been – bean

<variant>to be – bee

<question>Say what phrase among the given below is a free-word combination:

<variant>red tapes

<variant>to fly into a passion

<variant>to take a fancy to somebody

<variant>to rise with the lark

<variant>black sheep (in a family)

<question>Lexicology is…

<variant>the part of linguistics dealing with the vocabulary of a language and the

properties of words as the main units of a language

<variant>the branch of linguistics investigating the hearing process

<variant>the science of compiling dictionaries

<variant>the part of linguistics dealing with the syntax and morphology of a given

language

<variant>the science studying the origin of words

<question>What are the two principal approaches in linguistics to the study of language material?

<variant>synchronic and diachronic

<variant>descriptive and prescriptive

<variant>general and special

<variant>lexicological and historic

<variant>descriptive and historical

<question>Free morphemes …

<variant>coincide with word-forms of independently functioning words

<variant>do not coincide with separate word-forms

<variant>carry only grammatical meaning and are used for the formation only of word-

forms

<variant>are derivational morphemes

<variant>are compound words

<question>. . . is an important branch of applied linguistics dealing with the theory and practice of

compiling dictionaries.

<variant>Lexicography

<variant>Lexicology

<variant>Phonostylistics

<variant>Theoretical grammar

<variant>Etymology

<question>Say which word among the given below is formed by means of reduplication:

<variant>chin-chin

<variant>baby-sitter

<variant>speedometer

<variant>smog

<variant>radar

<question>State the type of the idiom ‘to kick the bucket’ according to V.Vinogradov’s classification:

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>literary coinage

<question>The category of tense in OE consisted of …

<variant>2 forms

<variant>3 forms

<variant>5 forms

<variant>7 forms

<variant>16 forms

<question>OE strong verbs are usually divided into … classes.

<variant>7

<variant>3

<variant>4

<variant>5

<variant>6

<question>Say which word is of the French origin:

<variant>army

<variant>Sophie

<variant>wine

<variant>samovar

<variant>budget

<question>. . .  are words of the same part of speech, opposite in meaning

<variant>antonyms

<variant>acronyms

<variant>synonyms

<variant>homonyms

<variant>abbreviations

<question>Completely non-motivated word-groups such as ‘a pretty kettle of fish’ are called …

<variant>phraseological fusions

<variant>phraseological unities

<variant>phraseological collocations

<variant>phraseological units

<variant>free-word combinations

<question>Partially non-motivated word-groups; their meaning can usually be understood through the metaphoric meaning of the whole phraseological unit. These are …

<variant>phraseological unities

<variant>phraseological fusions

<variant>phraseological collocations

<variant>phraseological units

<variant>free-word combinations

<question>Old English weak verbs correspond to Modern English . . .

<variant>regular verbs

<variant>modal verbs

<variant>irregular verbs

<variant>auxiliary

<variant>Participle II

<question>Who was the leader of the Norman conquerors?

<variant>William the Conqueror

<variant>William Caxton

<variant>King Edward

<variant>Jeffrey Chaucer

<variant>William Shakespeare

<question>What language did the Norman conquerors speak?

<variant>French

<variant>Swedish

<variant>German

<variant>Russian

<variant>Norwegian

<question>The OE vocabulary consisted mostly of . . .

<variant>native words

<variant>Latin borrowings

<variant>Russian borrowings

<variant>Scandinavian borrowings

<variant>French borrowings

<question>Which of the following words is built by means of reduplication?

<variant>goody-goody

<variant>to face

<variant>to hiss

<variant>cold-blooded

<variant>motel

<question>Name the components of the basic triangle (referential approach to the meaning of a word).

<variant>concept, referent, sound form

<variant>emotive charge, stylistic reference, local coloring

<variant>synchronic, diachronic, referential

<variant>literary, colloquial, neutral

<variant>Old English, Middle English, Modern English

<question>State the type of the idiom ‘red tape’ according to V.Vinogradov’s classification:

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>literary coinage

<question>The example of homophones is:

<variant>to die – to dye    

<variant>to bear – beer 

<variant>mass – mass

<variant>hair – heir

<variant>lie - lay

<question>The words to baby-sit, to cobble, to burgle are formed by means of:

<variant>back-formation

<variant>shortening 

<variant>suffixation

<variant>affixation

<variant>conversion

<question>The words goody-goody , ping-pong, dilly-dally are formed by means of:

<variant>reduplication

<variant>shortening

<variant>back-formation

<variant>blending

<variant>sound imitation

<question>The words general, lieutenant, colonel are of … origin.

<variant>French 

<variant>Germanic  

<variant>Slavonic  

<variant>Latin  

<variant>Scandinavian

<question>Which of the following words is of the Russian origin:

<variant>matryoshka

<variant>altar  

<variant>beret   

<variant>drama

<variant>mackintosh

<question>How many morphemes are there in the word ‘disappearance’?

<variant>3

<variant>1    

<variant>2   

<variant>9  

<variant>5

<question>Say which words are of Scandinavian origin.

<variant>sky, skin, skill

<variant>ship, fish, shine

<variant>lieutenant, sergeant, soldier

<variant>saint, sermon, service

<variant>Manchester, Lancaster, Winchester

<question>Say which word is OE.

<variant>helpan

<variant>zeal  

<variant>kissen  

<variant>kessen  

<variant>kiss

<question>English in America is . . .

<variant>a regional variety of English  

<variant>a dialect

<variant>a separate language

<variant>the same as English in Australia

<variant>almost the same as in Britain but for its phonetics

<question>Choose the word formed by means of conversion:

<variant>to milk   

<variant>friendship   

<variant>BBC  

<variant>motel

<variant>doer

<question>Find the word built by means lexicalization:

<variant>customs (таможня)  

<variant>to burgle (from burglar)  

<variant>UN   

<variant>to finger

<variant>forget-me-not

<question>Find a free-word group among the following combinations:

<variant>fall from the fifth floor

<variant>a pretty kettle of fish 

<variant>to sleep like a log 

<variant>to show the white feather 

<variant>as cold as cucumber

<question>Give a homophone to the word ‘high’:

<variant>hi

<variant>tall  

<variant>short  

<variant>height

<variant>this word has no homophones

<question>Define the type of antonyms - ‘man – boy’:

<variant>contraries

<variant>contradictories  

<variant>incompatibles 

<variant>absolute

<variant>derivational

<question>State the origin of the word ‘rheumatism’:

<variant>Greek  

<variant>Latin  

<variant>Russian 

<variant>Celtic

<variant>French

<question>Define the type of the following sentence (according to the purpose of the utterance): We must go to meet the bus.

<variant>declarative   

<variant>interrogative  

<variant>imperative   

<variant>exclamatory

<variant>mixed type

<question>Define the type of the following sentence (according to the purpose of the utterance): Who said that?

<variant>interrogative   

<variant>declarative

<variant>imperative   

<variant>exclamatory

<variant>mixed type

<question>Define the type of the following sentence (according to the purpose of the utterance): It’s out of the question!

<variant>exclamatory

<variant>interrogative  

<variant>imperative   

<variant>elliptical   

<variant>one-member

<question>Define the type of the following sentences (according to the structure of the utterance): Freedom! The clear sky! The wonderful twitter of birds!

<variant>one-member sentences                   

<variant>two-member sentences, complete   

<variant>two-member sentences, elliptical   

<variant>compound sentences

<variant>subordinate clauses

<question>Define the type of the underlined sentence (according to the structure of the utterance): “Where are you going now?” “To the library”

<variant>two-member sentence, elliptical                       

<variant>two-member sentence, complete   

<variant>one-member sentence

<variant>compound sentence

<variant>subordinate clause

<question>The origin of the words duke, duchess, prince is…

<variant>French

<variant>Latin  

<variant>Greek  

<variant>Scandinavian   

<variant>Celtic

<question>Say which word from the given below is Russian.

<variant>tsar

<variant>regime    

<variant>clan  

<variant>garage  

<variant>zebra

<question>Say what type of word-formation is used for the creation of the word crocogator (crocodile + alligator).

<variant>blending

<variant>composition  

<variant>affixation   

<variant>conversion

<variant>syntactical word building

<question>Define the origin of the words: take off, die, guess, get, they.

<variant>Scandinavian

<variant>French    

<variant>Spanish  

<variant>Celtic

<variant>Latin

<question>Britain was converted to Christianity in …

<variant>the 6^th –7^th centuries

<variant>55 BC    

<variant>1066     

<variant>499     

<variant>1476

<question>Define the type of syntactical connection in the following sentence:

They were sure that he would turn up.

<variant>syndetical connection

<variant>asyndetical connection    

<variant>syntactical connection     

<variant>analytical connection

<variant>the clauses are not connected

<question>Define the type of clause in the sentence: The question was how to make him keep quiet.

<variant>predicative clause 

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>attributive clause

<variant>adverbial clause

<variant>object clause

<question>Define the type of the adverbial clause in the sentence: I told her all the truth, though at first I hesitated to.

<variant>adverbial clause of concession

<variant>adverbial clause of time      

<variant>adverbial clause of place

<variant>adverbial clause of cause    

<variant>adverbial clause of condition

<question>Define the type of coordination in the sentence: The night was warm and I could keep the window open.

<variant>copulative

<variant>disjunctive  

<variant>adversative  

<variant>causative-consecutive

<variant>asyndetical

<question>State which of the verbs given below is strong:

<variant>seoh

<variant>cēpte

<variant>macode

<variant>locōde

<variant>þūhte

<question>The words  pound, inch, wine, pepper, street, wall, kettle were borrowed from …

<variant>Latin

<variant>French

<variant>Dutch

<variant>Russian

<variant>Indian

<question>The words religion, service, virgin, angel, general, lieutenant, saint are of … origin.

<variant>French

<variant>Germanic

<variant>Slavonic

<variant>Swedish

<variant>Celtic

<question>As it is commonly known, Teutonic invaders came to Britain in 449 AD under the leadership of two Germanic kings, whose names are:

<variant>Hengist and Horsa

<variant>Bede and Alfred

<variant>William and Harold

<variant>Harold and Richard

<variant>Bede and Beowulf

<question>Gerund appeared in the English language in . . .

<variant>Middle English

<variant>Old English

<variant>Early New English

<variant>Late New English

<variant>1066

<question>What dialects were the most prominent in OE?

<variant>Wessex, Mercian, Kentish, Northumbrian

<variant>Wessex, Midland, Kentish, Scottish

<variant>Scandinavian and French

<variant>Mercian, Scottish, Irish, Cockney

<variant>Cockney, Mercian, East Midland, London

<question>“Ormulum”, one of the most well-known records in East Midland, was written by . . .

<variant>Orm

<variant>an unknown author

<variant>Ormus

<variant>King Alfred

<variant>French scribes

<question>The founder of the Tudor dynasty was . . .

<variant>Henry VII

<variant>Henry VIII

<variant>William the Conqueror

<variant>Edward the Confessor

<variant>Queen Elizabeth

<question>In 1534 this king broke with the Pope and declared himself head of the English Church.

<variant>Henry VIII

<variant>Henry VII

<variant>William the Conqueror

<variant>Edward the Confessor

<variant>Queen Elizabeth

<question>Parts of speech can be . . .

<variant>formal and notional

<variant>ideographic and absolute

<variant>absolute and derivational

<variant>auxiliary and link

<variant>principal and secondary

<question>Judging by the name of the dictionary define its type: Kunin A.V. English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary.

<variant>special, bilingual

<variant>general, bilingual

<variant>special, unilingual

<variant>general, monolingual

<variant>special, multilingual

<question>Judging by the name of the dictionary define its type: Walker’s Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language.

<variant>special, unilingual

<variant>special, bilingual

<variant>special, multilingual

<variant>general, monolingual

<variant>general, bilingual

<question>State the type of homonyms: ‘lead’ [led]– свинец, and ‘lead’ [li:d] - вести.

<variant>homographs

<variant>homophones

<variant>perfect homonyms

<variant>derivational homonyms

<variant>full homonyms

<question>Say which word is odd in the list.

<variant>incandescence

<variant>fame

<variant>glory

<variant>repute

<variant>notoriety

<question>Which word is the synonymic dominant in the group ‘glare – look – stare – gaze – gape’?

<variant>look

<variant>glare

<variant>stare

<variant>gaze

<variant>gape

<question>State the type of word-formation: rockumentary

<variant>blending

<variant>onomatopoeia

<variant>semantic stress

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: to enthuse (from ‘enthusiasm’)

<variant>back formation

<variant>telescopism

<variant>abbreviation

<variant>affixation

<variant>reduplication

<question>State the type of word-formation: ash-tray

<variant>word-composition

<variant>onomatopoeia

<variant>syntactic word-building

<variant>infixation

<variant>sound-gradation

<question>State the type of word-formation: Spanglish

<variant>blending

<variant>onomatopoeia

<variant>reduplication

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: CD

<variant>abbreviation

<variant>onomatopoeia

<variant>acronymy

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: ‘comment – to com’ment

<variant>semantic stress

<variant>sound gradation

<variant>reduplication

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: enviro

<variant>shortening

<variant>acronymy

<variant>conversion

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: zigzag

<variant>reduplication

<variant>conversion

<variant>syntactic word-building

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: to strike - stroke

<variant>sound interchange

<variant>onomatopoeia

<variant>semantic stress

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of word-formation: to anger

<variant>conversion

<variant>back-formation

<variant>semantic stress

<variant>affixation

<variant>juxtaposition

<question>State the type of the phraseologism ‘to make hay while the sun shines’ according to V.Vinogradov.

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>two-top unit

<question>State the type of the phraseologism ‘to have green fingers’ (to be a successive gardener) according to V.Vinogradov.

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>two-top unit

<question>Which of the words given below is a reduplicative compound?

<variant>tip-top

<variant>wine-glass

<variant>cock-a-doodle-doo

<variant>medicare

<variant>motel

<question>Clipping is another name for ….

<variant>shortening

<variant>reduplication

<variant>blending

<variant>affixation

<variant>onomatopoeia

<question>Which of the words given below is an acronym?

<variant>NATO

<variant>CIS

<variant>lab

<variant>motel

<variant>FBI

<question>Which of the following is a phraseological unit?

<variant>once in a blue moon

<variant>at Mr. Brown’s door

<variant>at a slow pace

<variant>to watch a movie

<variant>to rise at dawn

<question>How many morphemes are in the word ‘overpowering’?

<variant>3

<variant>2

<variant>4

<variant>12

<variant>5

<question>Which of the words given below has an inflectional morpheme?

<variant>talked

<variant>re-read

<variant>wine-glass

<variant>lines (poetry)

<variant>to supper

<question>Which of the words given below is built by means of lexicalization?

<variant>glasses (spectacles)

<variant>to supper

<variant>tradesman

<variant>brood - breed

<variant>‘conduct – con’duct

<question>Which of the words given below is built by means of blending?

<variant>beefalo (beef, buffalo)

<variant>the dead

<variant>to empty

<variant>unspeakable

<variant>chin-chin

<question>Which of the words given below is built by means of shortening?

<variant>fridge

<variant>chow-chow

<variant>to key

<variant>colors

<variant>the wounded

<question>Which of the words given below is formed by means of syntactical word-building?

<variant>forget-me-not

<variant>ad

<variant>to fish

<variant>baby-sit

<variant>G20

<question>Which of the words given below is built by means of sound-imitation?

<variant>to quack

<variant>smog

<variant>chow-chow

<variant>brunch

<variant>coat-of-arms

<question>State the type of dictionary: The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms and Antonyms.

<variant>special, unilingual

<variant>special, bilingual

<variant>special, multilingual

<variant>general, monolingual

<variant>general, bilingual

<question>State the type of synonyms: weak – fragile

<variant>ideographic

<variant>stylistic

<variant>absolute

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of synonyms: house - home

<variant>ideographic

<variant>stylistic

<variant>absolute

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of synonyms: terrible - horrible

<variant>absolute

<variant>stylistic

<variant>ideographic

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of synonyms: father - dad

<variant>stylistic

<variant>ideographic

<variant>absolute

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of synonyms: to bring – to fetch

<variant>ideographic

<variant>stylistic

<variant>absolute

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of antonyms: thin - fat

<variant>contraries

<variant>contradictories

<variant>ideographic

<variant>derivational

<variant>incompatibles

<question>State the type of homonyms: heir - air

<variant>homophones

<variant>homographs

<variant>full

<variant>perfect

<variant>grammatical

<question>State the type of homonyms: cut (Past Simple) – cut (past Participle)

<variant>grammatical

<variant>homographs

<variant>full

<variant>partial

<variant>lexical

<question>State the type of homonyms: to lie (лежать) – to lie (лгать)

<variant>partial

<variant>homophones

<variant>full

<variant>derivational

<variant>grammatical

<question>State the origin of the word ‘diaphragm’

<variant>Greek

<variant>Latin

<variant>French

<variant>Scandinavian

<variant>native

<question>State the origin of the word ‘regime’

<variant>French

<variant>Latin

<variant>Greek

<variant>Scandinavian

<variant>Celtic

<question>State the origin of the word ‘chateaux’

<variant>French

<variant>Latin

<variant>Greek

<variant>Scandinavian

<variant>Celtic

<question>State the origin of the words ‘they, them, their’

<variant>Scandinavian

<variant>Latin

<variant>Greek

<variant>French

<variant>Celtic

<question>State the type of coordination: Somebody knocked at the door but Martin did not open.

<variant>adversative

<variant>disjunctive

<variant>copulative

<variant>causative-consecutive

<variant>asyndetical

<question>State the type of coordination: Go away otherwise I’ll call the police.

<variant>disjunctive

<variant>adversative

<variant>copulative

<variant>causative-consecutive

<variant>asyndetical

<question>State the type of connection: I came, I saw, I conquered.

<variant>asyndetical

<variant>syndetical

<variant>subordinate

<variant>causative-consecutive

<variant>disjunctive

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: I only write down what seems to me to be the truth.

<variant>object clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>attributive clause

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: I only asked what seemed right to me.

<variant>object clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>attributive clause

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: I am quite comfortable where I am.

<variant>adverbial clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>object clause

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: Her singing is something quite exceptional, I think.

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>object clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>attributive clause

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: She did exactly as he told her.

<variant>adverbial

<variant>subject clause

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>attributive clause

<question>State the type of the underlined subordinate clause: You are, I’m afraid, far more urgently in need of medical advice than your daughter.

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>object clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>attributive clause

 <question>What language is spoken in Denmark?

<variant>Danish

<variant>Spanish

<variant>German

<variant>Elfdalian

<variant>Icelandic

<question>What language is spoken in Liechtenstein?

<variant>German

<variant>Spanish

<variant>Danish

<variant>Elfdalian

<variant>Icelandic

<question>Manx, one of the Celtic languages, is spoken in …

<variant>the Isle-of-Man

<variant>Denmark

<variant>Liechtenstein

<variant>Majorca

<variant>Mozambique

<question>The angular script of pre-Christian Angles was called ‘runes’, which means …

<variant>secret

<variant>style

<variant>run

<variant>rule

<variant>symbol

<question>Which of the following is one of the best-known English runic inscriptions?

<variant>Frank’s Casket

<variant>Ormulum

<variant>Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

<variant>Danelaw

<variant>Beowulf

<question>In OE there existed 4 principal dialects. Find the odd one.

<variant>Geordie 

<variant>Wessex

<variant>Mercian

<variant>Kentish

<variant>Northumbrian

<question>Which of the following is the famous OE poetic work?

<variant>Beowulf

<variant>Ormulum

<variant>Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

<variant>Danelaw

<variant>Ruthwell Cross

<question>Canadian English and American English are sometimes grouped together as …

<variant>North American English

<variant>American Dialect

<variant>Common American English

<variant>South American English

<variant>Mid-Atlantic English

<question>Which of the following is a Canadianism?

<variant>bear walker

<variant>war path

<variant>sombrero

<variant>tuxedo

<variant>catfish

<question>Which of the following words has an infix?

<variant>fandamntastic

<variant>boredom

<variant>hotdog

<variant>mishmash

<variant>pains

<question>… is a national epic which describes the real history of the fight for independence of Scotland. It was written in Middle English, in the so-called Scottish dialect.

<variant>Bruce

<variant>Ormulum

<variant>Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

<variant>The Canterbury Tales

<variant>Beowulf

<question>Explanatory dictionaries are also known as … .

<variant>unilingual

<variant>bilingual

<variant>trilingual 

<variant>multilingual

<variant>non-linguistic

<question>Professor A.I.Smirnitsky classified phraseological units into:

<variant>one-top and two-top units

<variant>fusions, unities, collocations

<variant>derived and absolute

<variant>phraseological repetitions and phraseological collocations

<variant>allusions and derivations

<question>In some regions of India the word ‘school’ is pronounced as … .

<variant>[isku:l]

<variant>[shu:l]

<variant>[sko:l]

<variant>[sku:l]

<variant>[shola]

<question>Which of the following peculiarities is not characteristic for the Indian variant of English?

<variant>It has a great number of borrowings from the Eskimo languages.

<variant>Interrogative constructions may be formed without inversion.

<variant>‘One’ is used more often than the indefinite article.

<variant>Present Perfect can be used instead of Past Simple.

<variant>In Indian English there are used numerous borrowings from Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit.

<question>Ebonics is … .

<variant>another term for African American Vernacular English

<variant>a branch of linguistics studying the origin of words

<variant>English vulgar language

<variant>a branch of linguistics dealing with the study of scientific terms

<variant>another term for acoustic phonetics

<question>Ebonics is used by many contemporary writers,   …  is one of them.

<variant>Toni Morrison

<variant>Stephenie Meyer

<variant>George Martin  

<variant>C.S. Lewis

<variant>Ken Kesey

<question>The English language started its vast penetration into the territory of Australia at the end of the . … .

<variant>18^th century

<variant>15^th century

<variant>16^th century

<variant>17^th century

<variant>19^th century

<question>… of the 18^th-19^th century was often called ‘jail on a large scale’

<variant>Australia

<variant>The South African Republic

<variant>Canada

<variant>India

<variant>The USA 

<question>All the forms of the given morpheme that manifest alteration, i.e. systematic variants of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment, are called …

<variant>allomorphs

<variant>allophones

<variant>isomorphs

<variant>bound morphemes

<variant>telescopisms

<question>…  is a kind of lexical expression in which a stem expresses a conceptual category without undergoing any morphological or syntactic change (e.g. ‘cut’ as Past  Simple and Present Simple for most persons and numbers).

<variant>Isomorphism

<variant>Allomorphism

<variant>Inflection

<variant>Derivation

<variant>Blending

<question>Say which of the following words has a semi-affix.

<variant>waterproof

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>doer

<variant>unemployment

<variant>knizzow

<question>Say which of the following words has a semi-affix.

<variant>half-read

<variant>blackboard

<variant>criss-cross

<variant>unbearable

<variant>knizzow

<question>Say which of the following words has a prefix.

<variant>unemployment

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>doer

<variant>root

<variant>knizzow

<question>Say which of the following words is derived.

<variant>helper

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>sharp

<variant>please

<variant>know-how

<question>Say which of the following words is compound.

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>waterproof

<variant>doer

<variant>unemployment

<variant>knizzow

<question>Say which of the following words is a derivational compound.

<variant>cold-blooded

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>doer

<variant>unemployment

<variant>knizzow

<question>Say how many morphemes are in the word ‘make’.

<variant>1

<variant>2

<variant>3

<variant>4

<variant>0

<question>Say how many morphemes are in the word ‘boys’.

<variant>2

<variant>1

<variant>3

<variant>4

<variant>0

<question>Say which of the following words has an inflectional morpheme.

<variant>characters

<variant>glasses (очки)

<variant>to make

<variant>schoolboy

<variant>cold-blooded

<question>Say which of the following words is built by means of acronymy.

<variant>AIDS

<variant>cablegram

<variant>lab

<variant>BBC

<variant>Bros.

<question>Say which word among the given below is formed by means of syntactical word-building.

<variant>merry-go-round

<variant>AIDS

<variant>to bang

<variant>goldfish

<variant>the wounded

<question>State the origin of the following words: sheep, cow, fish.

<variant>native

<variant>French

<variant>Latin

<variant>Russian

<variant>Scandinavian

<question>State the grammatical meaning of the following words: boys, oxen, wives.

<variant>plurality

<variant>singularity

<variant>possessive case

<variant>functional parts of speech

<variant>predicatives

<question>Say which of the following words has a connotational meaning.

<variant>glory

<variant>good

<variant>child

<variant>to look

<variant>horse

<question>Say which of the following words does not have a connotational meaning.

<variant>budget

<variant>glory

<variant>notoriety

<variant>to kick the bucket

<variant>steed

<question>Say which of the following words is not of the Greek origin.

<variant>machine

<variant>idiom

<variant>George

<variant>philosophy

<variant>rheumatism

<question>According to the broad definition, intonation is defined as a complex unity of speech melody, sentence (utterance) stress, tempo, rhythm and voice timbre that is used to express thoughts, emotions and attitudes to the contents of the utterance and the hearer. This definition was given by phonetician(s) …

<variant>V.Vasiliev and G.Torsuyev

<variant>A.Antipova

<variant>D.Jones and K.Pike

<variant>I.Armstrong

<variant>O’Connor

<question>Say which of the following is not a component of intonation.

<variant>articulation

<variant>melody

<variant>tempo

<variant>rhythm

<variant>timbre

<question>Say which linguistic phenomenon is this joke based on:

Diner: ‘Do you serve fish here?’

Waiter: ‘We serve anyone here, sir.’

<variant>polysemy

<variant>homonymy

<variant>synonymy

<variant>antonymy

<variant>monosemy

<question>Say which linguistic phenomenon is this joke based on:

Pam: ‘Hasn’t Harvey ever married?’

Beryl: ‘No, and I don’t think he intends to, because he is studying for the Bachelor’s degree.’

<variant>homonymy

<variant>polysemy

<variant>synonymy

<variant>antonymy

<variant>monosemy

<question>State the type of the phraseological unit ‘double Dutch’ according to V.Vinogradov’s

classification:

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>literary coinage

<question>State the type of the phraseological unit ‘not to turn a hair’ according to V.Vinogradov’s

classification:

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>literary coinage

<question>State the type of the phraseological unit ‘to bite the hand that feeds you’ according to V.Vinogradov’s classification:

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>literary coinage

<question>State the type of the phraseological unit ‘to put something by for a rainy day’ according to V.Vinogradov’s classification:

<variant>phraseological unity

<variant>free-word combination

<variant>phraseological collocation

<variant>phraseological fusion

<variant>literary coinage

<question>Find a pair of stylistic synonyms among the pairs given below.

<variant>to see – to behold

<variant>mirror – looking-glass

<variant>to bring – to fetch

<variant>dumb - mute

<variant>war - truce

<question>Find a pair of polysemantic words among the pairs given below.

<variant>tie (галстук) – to tie (связывать)

<variant>spleen (хандра) – spleen (селезенка)

<variant>bow (поклон) – bow (бант)

<variant>can (мочь, уметь) – can (жестяная банка)

<variant>school (школа) – school (косяк рыбы)

<question>Say which of the following parts of speech is indeclinable.

<variant>conjunction

<variant>noun

<variant>verb

<variant>noun and adjective

<variant>adjective

<question>Which of the following nouns is non-human?

<variant>bee

<variant>man

<variant>woman

<variant>carpenter

<variant>burglar

<question>Find a pair of full homonyms.

<variant>match (спичка) – match (матч)

<variant>hide (шкура) – hide (прятаться)

<variant>heard – herd

<variant>ore – or

<variant>scent – cent

<question>Which of the following words is not built by means of onomatopoeia?

<variant>flu

<variant>yuck

<variant>buzz

<variant>fizz

<variant>click

<question>Define the type of the italicized subordination: This is the house that Jack built.

<variant>attributive clause

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>adverbial clause

<question>Define the type of subordination: You are mistaken, I am afraid.

<variant>parenthetical clause

<variant>attributive clause

<variant>predicative clause

<variant>subject clause

<variant>adverbial clause

<question>Define the type of coordination in the sentence: The night was warm and I could keep the window open.

<variant>copulative

<variant>disjunctive

<variant>adversative

<variant>causative-consecutive

<variant>subordinate

<question>Define the type of the sentence: Everyone knew that she was a selfish woman.

<variant>complex sentence

<variant>compound sentence

<variant>complicated sentence

<variant>simple sentence

<variant>one-member sentence

<question>The sentence is the main object of:

<variant>syntax

<variant>morphology

<variant>history of English

<variant>phonetics

<variant>literature

<question>. . . distinguished such a part of speech as a ‘stative’.

<variant>Ilyish

<variant>Ivanova

<variant>Vassilyev

<variant>Blokh

<variant>Poutsma

<question>Nouns are divided into:

<variant>animate and inanimate

<variant>transitive and intransitive

<variant>qualitative and relative

<variant>factive and evaluative

<variant>actional and statal

<question>Find the example of Pluralia Tantum:

<variant>scissors

<variant>peoples

<variant>boys

<variant>information

<variant>money

<question>What syntactical function(s) can the noun perform in the sentence?

<variant>any function

<variant>object

<variant>subject, object, predicate

<variant>subject, attribute

<variant>subject

<question>George has an awful voice. The noun ‘George’ is…

<variant>proper noun

<variant>common noun

<variant>uncountable noun

<variant>non-human noun

<variant>inanimate noun

<question>Define the type of the following sentence (according to the purpose of the utterance): We must go to meet the bus.

<variant>declarative

<variant>interrogative

<variant>imperative

<variant>rhetorical

<variant>exclamatory

<question>Irish, Welsh and Scottish are … languages

<variant>Celtic

<variant>Germanic

<variant>Slavic

<variant>Arabic

<variant>Romance

<question>The words brother , heart, sit, two refer to the …

<variant>Common Indo-European words

<variant>West Germanic words

<variant>East Germanic words

<variant>Specifically Germanic words

<variant>Specifically Old English words

<question>Britain was converted to Christianity in …

<variant>the 6^th –7^th centuries

<variant>1066

<variant>499

<variant>1476

<variant>55 BC

<question>Most of Modern English modal verbs go back to the OE … verbs.

<variant>preterit-present

<variant>strong

<variant>weak

<variant>transitive

<variant>intransitive

<question>The words cū and dūn sounded … in the Old English period.

<variant>[ku: , du:n]

<variant>[ku, dun]

<variant>[kju:, dju:n]

<variant>[k⋀, d⋀n]

<variant>[su:, du:n]

<question>Say which word is of the Scandinavian origin.

<variant>to give

<variant>clasp

<variant>budget

<variant>shirt

<variant>kettle

<question>… is one of the most well-known dialects in Britain; it can be heard in Newcastle.

<variant>Geordie

<variant>Scouse

<variant>Cornish

<variant>Northumbrian

<variant>Cockney

<question>Speakers of this dialect often pronounce words ‘them’, ‘his’, ‘they’ as  [‘em, ‘is, ‘ei]

<variant>Cockney

<variant>Scouse

<variant>Cornish

<variant>Northumbrian

<variant>Geordie

<question>Every phoneme can be modified in speech. Among different modifications we can distinguish:

<variant>idiolectal, diaphonic and allophonic

<variant>idiolectal, ideographic and diachronic

<variant>allophonic and cacophonic

<variant>euphonic and cacophonic

<variant>synchronic and diachronic

<question>This phonemic modification occurs due to the individual peculiarities of articulation, e.g. the speaker can mumble, stammer or lisp. This modification of phonemes in speech is called

<variant>idiolectal

<variant>diaphonic

<variant>allophonic

<variant>isomorphic

<variant>diachronic

<question>This phonemic modification is caused by historical tendencies active in certain localities (i.e. it is noticeable in some local territorial dialects). This modification of phonemes in speech is called

<variant>diaphonic

<variant>idiolectal

<variant>allophonic

<variant>isomorphic

<variant>diachronic

<question>This phonemic modification is conditioned by phonetic environment. Thus the same phoneme in different environments may be pronounced as [æ] and [ә]. This modification of phonemes in speech is called

<variant>allophonic

<variant>idiolectal

<variant>diaphonic

<variant>isomorphic

<variant>diachronic

<question>Parts of speech are discriminated:

<variant>on the basis of semantic, formal and functional criteria

<variant>only on the bases of phonetical criterion

<variant>only on the basis of informal criterion

<variant>only on the basis of prepositional criteria

<variant>on the basis of inflexion