тест лексикология

Вопрос 1
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A bound stem contains
Выберите один ответ:

a. one free morpheme
b. a group of words
c. not less than two free morphemes
d. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

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Правильный ответ: not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
Вопрос 2
Верно
According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

a. compound
b. derived
c. shortened
d. blendings
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: shortened
Вопрос 3
Верно
Affixation is the formation of words

a. by adding derivational affixes to stems
b. by reducing a word to one of its parts
c. by combining parts of two words
d. by joining two or more stems

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: by adding derivational affixes to stems
Вопрос 4
Верно
Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

a. morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words
b. principal and productive ways of forming new words
c. non-productive ways of word-formation
d. less known types

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: principal and productive ways of forming new words
Вопрос 5
Верно
An allomorph is

a. an affix placed within a word
b. a positional variant of a morpheme
c. an association of a given meaning with a given sound
d. an ultimate constituent of a word

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a positional variant of a morpheme
Вопрос 6
Верно
A non-affixal type of word-building is

a. conversion
b. compounding
c. sound interchange
d. shortening
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: conversion
Вопрос 7
Верно
A paradigm is

a. the system of the morphological changes of a word
b. the system of the lexical meanings of a word
c. the system of the grammatical forms of a word
d. the system of the lexico-grammatical changes of a word
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the system of the grammatical forms of a word
Вопрос 8
Верно
A prefix is

a. an affix placed within the word
b. a combining form
c. a derivational morpheme preceding the root
d. a common element of words within a word-family

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a derivational morpheme preceding the root
Вопрос 9
Верно
A suffix is

a. a derivational morpheme following the stem
b. a combining form
c. an affix placed within the word
d. a derivational morpheme preceding the root

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a derivational morpheme following the stem
Вопрос 10
Верно
A variety of a language which prevails in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary,

pronunciation and grammar is

a. a dialect
b. an accent
c. a variant
d. a slang
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a dialect
Вопрос 11
Неверно
A.V. Kunin named the following phraseological units

a. one-top units, phrasal verbs
b. fusions, collocations
c. nominative, adjectival
d. verbal, nominative
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: nominative, adjectival
Вопрос 12
Неверно
A.V. Kunin points out in his classification the following phraseological units

a. verbal, adjectival, adverbial
b. on-top, two-top, three-top
c. fusions, unities
d. communicative, substantive, interjectional and modal

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: communicative, substantive, interjectional and modal
Вопрос 13
Неверно
British, American, Australian and Canadian English are

a. country dialects
b. local dialects
c. regional variants of standard language
d. different languages
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: regional variants of standard language
Вопрос 14
Верно
By external structure of the word we mean

a. its combinability
b. its morphological structure
c. its meaning
d. its grammatical paradigm

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: its morphological structure
Вопрос 15
Верно
By their graphic and sound-form homonyms may be

a. grammatical, lexical and lexico-grammatical homonyms
b. perfect homonyms, homophones and homographs
c. homographs and homophones
d. full and partial homonyms

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: perfect homonyms, homophones and homographs
Вопрос 16
Частично правильный
Choose the words of Germanic origin
Выберите один или несколько ответов:

a. can
b. field
c. summer
d. Earth
e. two
Отзыв
Правильные ответы: summer, can, Earth, field
Вопрос 17
Верно
Combinability of the word depends on

a. its grammatical meaning
b. its valency
c. its lexical, grammatical and lexico-grammatical meanings
d. its lexical meaning

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: its lexical, grammatical and lexico-grammatical meanings
Вопрос 18
Верно
Compound derivatives contain

a. not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
b. not less than two free morphemes
c. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
d. one free morpheme

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
Вопрос 19
Верно
Compounds may be coordinative and subordinative according to

a. the relations between their immediate constituents
b. the nature of their immediate constituents
c. the nature of one component of the word
d. the order of their immediate constituents

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the relations between their immediate constituents
Вопрос 20
Верно
Compound words are

a. class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning
b. derivational morphemes standing before the root
c. words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms
d. nouns denoting some feelings and state

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free
forms
Вопрос 21
Верно
Compound words contain

a. one free morpheme
b. a group of words
c. one free morpheme and affixes
d. not less than two free morphemes

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: not less than two free morphemes
Вопрос 22
Неверно
Conversion is

a. formation of words through changes of function of the word
b. formation of nouns
c. formation of words from other parts of speech
d. formation of verbs
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: formation of words from other parts of speech
Вопрос 23
Верно
Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built

a. by adding word-building affixes to stems
b. by means of changing the paradigm of words
c. by combining parts of two words
d. by changing the affix

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: by means of changing the paradigm of words
Вопрос 24
Верно
Define the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar

a. Lexicalization
b. Blending
c. Shortening
d. back formation
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Shortening
Вопрос 25
Неверно
Degradation of meaning is

a. litotes
b. degeneration
c. elevation
d. metonymy
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: degeneration
Вопрос 26
Верно
Derivational affixes serve

a. to connect parts of blendings
b. to form different words
c. to convey grammatical meaning
d. to build different forms of one and the same word

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: to build different forms of one and the same word
Вопрос 27
Верно
Derivational compounds are

a. derivational morphemes standing before the root
b. compound words that have affixes
c. words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages
d. elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: compound words that have affixes
Вопрос 28
Верно
Derivatives contain

a. not less than two free morphemes
b. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
c. not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme
d. one free morpheme

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound
Вопрос 29
Неверно
Dialects of American English are

a. Southern and Northern
b. Northern, Midland and Southern
c. Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern
d. East Coast and West Coast

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Northern, Midland and Southern
Вопрос 30
Верно
Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, proverbs are

a. glossaries
b. general dictionaries
c. etymological dictionaries
d. special dictionaries
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: special dictionaries
Вопрос 31
Верно
Dictionaries of American English are

a. etymological dictionaries
b. general dictionaries
c. explanatory dictionaries
d. special dictionaries
Отзыв
Вопрос 32
Верно
Dictionaries of toponyms are

a. dictionaries of the most difficult words
b. special dictionaries
c. general
d. explanatory dictionaries
Отзыв
Вопрос 33
Верно
Dictionaries with the explanation in another language are

a. unilingual
b. multilingual
c. glossaries
d. bilingual
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: bilingual
Вопрос 34
Неверно
Each meaningful component stands for a separate notion in

a. phraseological fusions
b. free word-groups
c. phraseological unities
d. phraseological collocations
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: free word-groups
Вопрос 35
Верно
-er, -dom, -ness, -ation are

a. adjective -forming suffixes
b. noun-forming suffixes
c. verb-forming suffixes
d. adverb-forming suffixes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: noun-forming suffixes
Вопрос 36
Неверно
Etymological doublets are

a. words with the same source but different in phonemic shape
b. Doublets are words which have the same phonemic shape and meaning
c. words originating from the same source, but different in phonemic shape and in meaning
d. words which have the same meaning but differ in phonemic shape
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: words originating from the same source, but different in phonemic shape and in
meaning
Вопрос 37
Верно
Etymology investigates

a. different kinds of dictionaries
b. different types of compounds
c. the origin and history of a word and its true meaning
d. peculiarities of the English vocabulary

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the origin and history of a word and its true meaning
Вопрос 38
Верно
Fill in the missing part of the phraseological unit “to carry coal to …”

a. Manchester
b. Liverpool
c. Newcastle
d. Plymouth
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Newcastle
Вопрос 39
Верно
Find an adjective built with the help of a suffix denoting the presence of the quality in a small degree

a. worthless
b. powerful
c. reddish
d. bookish
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: reddish
Вопрос 40
Верно
Find a noun built with the help of a suffix denoting a female being

a. cyclist
b. farmerette
c. Japanese
d. teacher
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: farmerette
Вопрос 41
Верно
Find a noun built with the help of a suffix denoting state

a. happiness
b. realism
c. translation
d. trustee
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: happiness
Вопрос 42
Верно
Find a suffixed adjective formed from an adjective stem

a. movable
b. bearded
c. dirty
d. greenish
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: greenish
Вопрос 43
Верно
Find the words which were converted

1. dear (n)
2. to tidy
3. to idle
4. male (n)

a. 2, 3, 4
b. 2, 3
c. 1, 3, 4
d. 1, 2, 3, 4
Отзыв
Ваш ответ верный.

Правильный ответ: 2, 3
Вопрос 44
Верно
Form or functional words comprise

a. phrasal verbs
b. auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions
c. nouns
d. adjectives
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions
Вопрос 45
Верно
Frequency dictionary is a

a. multilingual dictionary
b. concordance
c. special dictionary
d. general dictionary
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: general dictionary
Вопрос 46
Верно
Functional affixes

a. provide the structural completeness of a word-group
b. form different words
c. convey emotional components of meaning
d. convey grammatical meaning

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: convey grammatical meaning
Вопрос 47
Верно
Functional affixes can be called

a. prefixes
b. endings
c. infixes
d. suffixes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: endings
Вопрос 48
Верно
Give the correct translation of the phraseological unit “as cool as a cucumber”

a. безразличный
b. хладнокровный
c. пассивный
d. холодный на ощупь
e. низкой температуры
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: безразличный
Вопрос 49
Верно
Give the correct translation of the phraseological unit “Dutch courage”

a. смелость с пьяных глаз
b. датская смелость
c. голландская смелость
d. бравада
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: смелость с пьяных глаз
Вопрос 50
Неверно
Glossaries are

a. thing-books that give information about extra-linguistic factors
b. dictionaries giving information about all branches of knowledge
c. unilingual books that give definitions of terms
d. dictionaries explaining origin of words

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: unilingual books that give definitions of terms
Вопрос 51
Верно
Homophones are

a. identical in meaning but different in sound-form
b. identical in spelling but different in sound-form
c. identical in sound-form but different in their paradigms
d. identical in sound-form but different in spelling

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: identical in sound-form but different in spelling
Вопрос 52
Неверно
Indo-European elements are

a. Germanic
b. native
c. borrowed
d. Latin
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: native
Вопрос 53
Верно
inter-, hyper-, pre- are prefixes of

a. positive meaning
b. Negative meaning
c. Repetition
d. Space, degree, time

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Space, degree, time
Вопрос 54
Неверно
International words are

a. borrowed by several languages
b. agreed to be international
c. borrowed by neighbouring languages
d. borrowed by one language

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: borrowed by several languages
Вопрос 55
Неверно
Lexical meaning is

a. individual, unique
b. peculiar, but standard
c. general, standard
d. hard to disclose
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: individual, unique
Вопрос 56
Верно
Lexicography deals with

a. the etymological background of the English word stock
b. classification of loan words
c. the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
d. the word-making process in English

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
Вопрос 57
Верно
Lexicology has close ties with

a. lexis
b. literature, history and sociology
c. phonetics, grammar, history of a language, stylistics and sociolinguistics
d. phonetics and grammar

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: phonetics, grammar, history of a language, stylistics and sociolinguistics
Вопрос 58
Верно
Lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies

a. the grammatical system of a language
b. the vocabulary of a language
c. the relations between the language and social life
d. the history of a language

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the vocabulary of a language
Вопрос 59
Верно
Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are

a. derivatives
b. compounds
c. simple words
d. compound derivatives
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: compound derivatives
Вопрос 60
Верно
Mark absolute antonyms and derivational antonyms

множество 1 множество 2
1. right – wrong a. absolute antonyms
2. late - early b. derivational antonyms
3. known – unknown
4. love - hate

a. 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a
b. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
c. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
d. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
Вопрос 61
Неверно
Mark archaisms and historisms

1. ire a. archaism
2. to behold b. historism
3. brougham
4. beauteous

a. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
b. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
c. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b

Отзыв
Ваш ответ неправильный.

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
Вопрос 62
Неверно
Mark proverbs and sayings

1. money spent on brain is never spent in vain a. proverb
2. a drowning man will clutch at a straw b. saying
3. when the devil is blind
4. more haste than speed.

a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b
b. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a
c. 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b
Вопрос 63
Верно
Mark synonymous British and American phraseological units

1. enough to make a cat laugh
2. to throw into the wastebasket
3. to cross one’s path
4. to blow one’s own horn
5. to throw into the dustbin
6. to cross one’s track
7. to toot one’s own horn
8. to take one’s dust
9. enough to make a horse laugh
10. canned music

a. 1-9, 8-10, 3-6, 4-7
b. 9-1, 5-2, 6-3, 7-4
c. 9-1, 2-5, 6-3, 4-7
d. 1-9, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-9, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7
Вопрос 64
Неверно
Mark the British and the American spelling of the words

1. catalogue a. British
2. check b. American
3. connexion
4. thru
5. although

a. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b, 5-b
b. 1-b, 2-b, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
Вопрос 65
Неверно
Match the Americanisms and the period to which they belong

1. floater a. 1 (17-18th cc.)
2. senate b. 2 (19thc.-present day)
3. store
4. administration
5. squaw

a. 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
b. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
c. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b, 1-a
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
Вопрос 66
Неверно
Match the blends with the original words and word-combinations

1. transistor a. shine+glimmer
2. motel b. transfer+resistor
3. shimmer c. transport+resistor
4. brupper d. shy+glimmer
e. breakfast+supper
f. break+supper
g. motor hotel
h. mobile hotel
i. trans+insistor

a. 1-b, 2-h, 3-d, 4-f
b. 1-c, 2-g, 3-a, 4-e
c. 1-b, 2-g, 3-a, 4-e
d. 1-i, 2-h, 3-d, 4-e

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b, 2-g, 3-a, 4-e
Вопрос 67
Неверно
Match the borrowings and the degree of their assimilation

1. to starve a. fully assimilated
2. fascist b. partly assimilated
3 girl. c. semantically partly assimilated
4. cuisine
a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b
b. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-a
c. 1-a, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b
Вопрос 68
Верно
Match the compounds and their types

1. silver-box a. syntactical
2. teenager b. morphological
3. speedometer c. compound-derived
4. touch-and-go d. compound-shortened
e. neutral

a. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-e
b. 1-e, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a
c. 1-e, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b
d. 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-e, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a
Вопрос 69
Верно
Match the pair of words and their types

1. a ghost – a spirit a. absolute synonyms
2. radio – wireless b. semantic synonyms
3. to begin – to commence c. stylistic synonyms
4. laboratory – lab d. phraseological synonyms
5. abnormal – mad e. euphemisms

a. 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-c, 5-e
b. 1-a, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b, 5-c
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-e
d. 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-d, 5-e

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-c, 5-e
Вопрос 70
Неверно
Match the phraseological units and the ways of their forming

1. big wig a. primary
2. to make a mountain out of a molehill b. secondary
3. like hell
4. to mount a high horse
5. Judas’ kiss

a. 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
b. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
c. 1-b, 2-b, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b
d. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
Вопрос 71
Неверно
Match the shortenings and their types

1. maths a. apocope
2. zoo b. clipped word
3. photo c. aphaeresis
4. a.m. d. initial shortening
e. spelling shortening
f. Latin spelling shortening
g. syncope

a. 1-e, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
b. 1-g, 2-a, 3-a, 4-e, f
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-e, 4-g
d. 1-f, 2-e, 3-b, 4-c

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-g, 2-a, 3-a, 4-e, f
Вопрос 72
Неверно
Match the stems and their structural types

1. skyscraper a. compound
2. looking-glass b. simple
3. lady-bird c. derived
4. boast d. compound-derived

a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b
b. 1-c, 2-c, 3-c, 4-b
c. 1-d, 2-d, 3-d, 4-b
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b
Вопрос 73
Верно
Match the word and its origin

1. sable a. Russian
2. to die b. German
3. vase c. Scandinavian
4. empire d. French
e. Romanic
f. Italian
g. Latin

a. 1-c, 2-c, 3-g, 4-e,g
b. 1-a, 2-c, 3-d,e, 4-d,e
c. 1-c, 2-b, 3-f,g, 4-g
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-c, 3-d,e, 4-d,e
Вопрос 74
Верно
Match the words and their origin:

1. shoon a. Scottish
2. bard b. French
3. slogan c. Latin
4. plaid d. Irish
5. tory e. German

a. 1-e, 2-d, 3-c, 4-b, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d, 5-e
c. 1-a, 2-d, 3-a, 4-a, 5-d
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-e

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-d, 3-a, 4-a, 5-d
Вопрос 75
Неверно
Match the words and their structural types

1. activity a. derived
2. answer b. simple
3. affirm c. root
4. let
5. shameful

a. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-b, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b, 5-c
c. 1-a, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b,c 5-a
d. 1-a, 2-b,c, 3-a, 4-b,c, 5-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-b,c, 3-a, 4-b,c, 5-a
Вопрос 76
Неверно
Match the words and the types of semantic changes used in them
1. a pen a. metonymy
2. the leg of the table b. metaphor
3. Oxford c. specialization
4. terrific d. generalization
e. degradation of meaning
f. elevation of meaning
g. hyperbole
h. litotes

a. 1-b, 2-f, 3-e, 4-g
b. 1-h, 2-d, 3-c, 4-g
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
d. 1-a, 2-c, 3-e, 4-h

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
Вопрос 77
Неверно
Match the words and types of reduplication

1. tip-top a. perfect
2. ta-ta b. partial
3. to criss-cross
4. fifty-fifty
5. shilly-shally

a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b
c. 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-a, 5-b
d. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-a, 5-a

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b
Вопрос 78
Неверно
Match the words with their primary forms

1. an adder a. hurry+bustle
2. a nickname b. an eke name
3. hustle c. a napron
4. an apron d. a nadder
e. a Nick’s name
f. a nape ran
g. haste+bustle
a. 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
b. 1-d, 2-e, 3-a, 4-f
c. 1-d, 2-e, 3-a, 4-c
d. 1-d, 2-b, 3-g, 4-f

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
Вопрос 79
Неверно
Metaphor is based on

a. comparison and similarity of referents in shape, in function, in position, etc.
b. contiguity of referents
c. widening of meaning
d. comparison and difference of referents

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: comparison and similarity of referents in shape, in function, in position, etc.
Вопрос 80
Неверно
Morphemes occur as

a. constituents of phrases
b. constituents of sentences
c. free forms
d. constituents of words
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: constituents of words
Вопрос 81
Верно
Motivation based on the coexistence of direct and figurative meanings of the same word

a. grammatical motivation
b. semantic motivation
c. structural motivation
d. lexico-semantic motivation
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: semantic motivation
Вопрос 82
Верно
Narrowing of meaning is

a. degradation
b. generalization
c. specialization
d. shortening
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: specialization
Вопрос 83
Неверно
Phraseological units are classified into phrasemes and idioms according to

a. the contextual approach to phraseology
b. the semantic approach to phraseology
c. structural approach to phraseology
d. the functional approach to phraseology

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the contextual approach to phraseology
Вопрос 84
Верно
Phraseological units are usually understood as

a. motivated word combinations with some fixed components
b. unmotivated word-combinations reproduced as ready-made stable units
c. motivated word-combinations that allow variability of their components
d. unmotivated word combinations

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: unmotivated word-combinations reproduced as ready-made stable units
Вопрос 85
Верно
Phraseology studies

a. lexical homonyms
b. phrasal verbs
c. free word-combinations and phraseological units
d. synonyms and antonyms

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: free word-combinations and phraseological units
Вопрос 86
Неверно
Root morphemes carry

a. connotational meaning
b. lexical meaning
c. lexical and grammatical meaning
d. denotational meaning
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: lexical meaning
Вопрос 87
Верно
Semantically morphemes are classified as

a. free morphemes
b. bound morphemes
c. root and affixational morphemes
d. semi-bound morphemes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: root and affixational morphemes
Вопрос 88
Верно
Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with

a. differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication
b. the study of word meaning
c. the phonemic shape of words
d. a positional mobility of words within a sentence

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the study of word meaning
Вопрос 89
Верно
Shortening is

a. a common element of words
b. a significant subtraction of a word
c. a derived word
d. the smallest meaningful unit

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a significant subtraction of a word
Вопрос 90
Верно
Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

a. minor types of word making
b. ways of making up phraseological units
c. principal ways of word-building
d. ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: minor types of word making
Вопрос 91
Верно
Specialized dictionaries include

a. dictionaries of neologisms and translation dictionaries
b. explanatory dictionaries
c. dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms, collocations
d. dictionaries of frequency
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms, collocations
Вопрос 92
Верно
Structurally morphemes fall into

a. root morphemes
b. free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes
c. stem morphemes
d. prefixational morphemes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes
Вопрос 93
Верно
Suffix –er is

a. active
b. non-productive and active
c. productive and non-active
d. most productive and active

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: most productive and active
Вопрос 94
Верно
Syntagmatic relationships are based on

a. the language grammar structure
b. the word typical meaning
c. the linear character of speech
d. the language vocabulary

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the linear character of speech
Вопрос 95
Верно
The American spelling of the word “offence” is

a. ofence
b. offence
c. offense
d. offance
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: offense
Вопрос 96
Верно
The American spelling of the word “programme” is

a. prog
b. program
c. programm
d. programe
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: program
Вопрос 97
Неверно
The antonyms “happy — sad” refer to

a. contraries
b. partial
c. incompatibles
d. contradictories
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: contradictories
Вопрос 98
Верно
The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is

a. to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning
b. to point out the number of morphemes
c. to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem
d. to state the derivational pattern of the given word

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: to state the derivational pattern of the given word
Вопрос 99
Неверно
The classes of the following phraseological units according to A.V. Kunin are
1. Queen Ann is dead! a. communicative
2. first night b. nominative
3. to speak like a book c. substantive
4. as the crow flies d. verbal
5. half a loaf is better than no bread e. adverbial
f. adjectival

a. 1-a,b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-e, 5-b,f
b. 1-f, 2-f, 3-c,d, 4-c,d, 5-a
c. 1-a, 2-b,c, 3-b,d, 4-b,e, 5-a
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-f, 5-d

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-b,c, 3-b,d, 4-b,e, 5-a
Вопрос 100
Верно
The connotative meaning includes

a. the stylistic value, emotive charge and evaluative meanings of the word
b. the emotive charge, stylistic reference, evaluative and expressive components
c. the word’s reference to the object
d. the emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the emotive charge, stylistic reference, evaluative and expressive components
Вопрос 101
Верно
The content plane of words includes

a. denotative and connotative meanings
b. denotative meaning
c. denotative meaning and emotive connotation
d. denotative meaning and stylistic reference

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: denotative and connotative meanings
Вопрос 102
Верно
The correct origin of the affixes is:

1. –ment a. Greek
2. –ess b. Romanic
3. –able c. German
4. dis- d.Germanic
5. –ism e. Latin, French
f. Russian

a. 1-b,e, 2-b,e, 3-b,e, 4-b,e, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-e, 3-a, 4-d, 5-a
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-f
d. 1-d, 2-a, 3-e, 4-b, 5-b

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b,e, 2-b,e, 3-b,e, 4-b,e, 5-a
Вопрос 103
Верно
The diachronic approach to the study of language material deals with

a. the influence of extra-linguistic factors over the development of a language system as a whole
b. the existence of the vocabulary at a given period of time
c. the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time
d. the structural and semantic entity of language units within the language system
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time
Вопрос 104
Верно
The earliest group of English borrowings is

a. Celtic
b. Scandinavian
c. Latin
d. French
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Latin
Вопрос 105
Верно
The encyclopedic dictionaries are

a. dictionaries which give information on all branches of knowledge
b. word-books containing vocabulary items with their translation
c. dictionaries explaining the origin of words
d. unilingual books that give definitions of terms

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: dictionaries which give information on all branches of knowledge
Вопрос 106
Неверно
The evolution of vocabulary forms is the object of

a. special lexicology
b. general lexicology
c. historical lexicology
d. descriptive lexicology
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: historical lexicology
Вопрос 107
Неверно
The following definition «coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat» is an entry
from

a. a dictionary of borrowings
b. an explanatory dictionary
c. an etymological dictionary
d. a pronunciation dictionary
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: an explanatory dictionary
Вопрос 108
Неверно
The following words were converted form

1. find (n) a. noun
2. to empty b. adjective
3. to winter c. pronoun
4. to honeymoon d. numeral
5. to ape e. word-combination
f. verb

a. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-e, 5-a
b. 1-f, 2-a, 3-a, 4-e, 5-b
c. 1-f, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a, 5-a
d. 1-f, 2-b, 3-b, 4-a, 5-c

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-f, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a, 5-a
Вопрос 109
Верно
The full forms of the shortened words are

1. fence a. defence
2. ad b. university
3. varsity c. conference
4. sample d. advertisement
e. diversity
f. example
g. administration

a. 1-a, 2-g, 3-b, 4-f
b. 1-a, 2-d, 3-e, 4-f
c. 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-f
d. 1-c, 2-g, 3-b, 4-f

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-f
Вопрос 110
Неверно
The main criteria of the semantic approach to phraseology are

a. phraseological meaning of units
b. semantic cohesion and idiomaticity
c. function and meaning
d. non-variability of context and partial variability of context

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: semantic cohesion and idiomaticity
Вопрос 111
Верно
The main problems in lexicography are connected with

a. semantic and functional classification of words
b. selection of words and of head words
c. principles of definitions
d. word structure
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: selection of words and of head words
Вопрос 112
Неверно
The major difference between phraseological units and free word-groups is

a. semantic
b. structural
c. semantic and structural
d. stylistic
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: semantic and structural
Вопрос 113
Неверно
The meaning of a compound is derived from

a. the structural meaning of its pattern
b. the lexical meanings of its immediate constituents and from the structural
c. the lexical meanings of its immediate constituents
d. the meaning of its pattern

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the lexical meanings of its immediate constituents and from the structural
Вопрос 114
Неверно
The members of a thematic group, belonging to the same part of speech, close to one another
semantically so that we must know their shades of meaning and stylistic connotations to use them
correctly are called

a. synonyms
b. paronyms
c. antonyms
d. polysemantic words
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: synonyms
Вопрос 115
Верно
The morpheme is

a. a two-facet unit possessing both form and content and positionally mobile
b. the smallest indivisible two-facet unit that occurs in speech only as a constituent part of the word
c. a two-facet unit possessing both form and content, positionally mobile and syntactically
independent
d. a two-facet unit that occurs in speech only as a constituent part of the word
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the smallest indivisible two-facet unit that occurs in speech only as a constituent
part of the word
Вопрос 116
Верно
The morphemes in the words “motherly – quickly” are

a. antonymous
b. homonymous
c. paradigmatic
d. synonymous
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: homonymous
Вопрос 117
Верно
The morphemes which may occur alone and coincide with word-forms or immutable words are

a. free morphemes
b. semi-bound morphemes
c. covert morphemes
d. bound morphemes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: free morphemes
Вопрос 118
Верно
The most numerous words produced by conversion are

a. verbs made from nouns
b. nouns made from verbs
c. verbs made of adjectives
d. nouns made of adjectives

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: verbs made from nouns
Вопрос 119
Верно
The native noun-forming suffixes “–dom” and “–ship” are

a. semi-bound
b. productive
c. non-productive
d. semi-productive
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: non-productive
Вопрос 120
Неверно
The origin of the following affixes is

1. –er a. Romance
2. –ist b. Germanic
3. –ish c. German
4. –ing d. Greek
e. French
f. Indo-European

a. 1-b,f, 2-d,f, 3-b,f, 4-b,f
b. 1-b,f, 2-d,f, 3-b,f, 4-a,f
c. 1-c,f, 2-d, 3-f, 4-b
d. 1-b, 2-d, 3-f, 4-e

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-b,f, 2-d,f, 3-b,f, 4-b,f
Вопрос 121
Верно
The phraseological unit “to get one's claws into smb” is

a. a saying
b. a phraseological unity
c. a phraseological collocation
d. a phraseological fusion
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a phraseological unity
Вопрос 122
Верно
The prefix “fore-“ in the word “foreknowledge” means

a. “before”
b. “previous”
c. “inside, within”
d. “placed at the front”

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: “before”
Вопрос 123
Верно
The root of the word is

a. the basic unit of a language
b. a grammatical paradigm
c. the basic part of a word to which affixes are added
d. a derivational affix
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the basic part of a word to which affixes are added
Вопрос 124
Верно
«Thesaurus» means

a. a dictionary of abbreviations
b. a collection of words put in groups together according to likeness in their meanings
c. an alphabetical list of words used in a book or collection of books by one writer
d. a list of explanations of words, especially unusual ones at the end of a book

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a collection of words put in groups together according to likeness in their
meanings
Вопрос 125
Неверно
The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in

a. Phraseology
b. Lexicology
c. Grammar
d. Lexicography
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Lexicography
Вопрос 126
Верно
The shortened word “PhD” is read

a. Pizza Home Delivery
b. doctor of physics
c. Professional Hair Dresser
d. doctor of philosophy
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: doctor of philosophy
Вопрос 127
Верно
The shortened word “pt” is read

a. pin(s)
b. port
c. Proterozoic time
d. Platinum
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: pin(s)

Вопрос 128
Верно
The Standard English form of the dialect sentence “Git ma my yaale I tell tha” is

a. Go to the Yale, I told that.
b. My mother got old, I tell you.
c. Go make it yellow, I told you.
d. Get me my ale, I tell you.

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Get me my ale, I tell you.
Вопрос 129
Неверно
The stress in the following words is on the

1. conduct (n) a. first syllable
2. to export b. second syllable
3. to conflict
4. desert (n)
5. to subject

a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a
c. 1-b, 2-b, 3-b, 4-a, 5-a
d. 1-a, 2-b, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-b, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b
Вопрос 130
Неверно
The synchronic approach to the study of language material is concerned with

a. the use of various words and phrases in particular communicative situations
b. the evolution of the vocabulary items
c. the study of words origin
d. the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time
Вопрос 131
Неверно
The synonymic dominant in the following group – big, great, large, generous, enormous – is

a. great
b. large
c. big
d. generous
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: big
Вопрос 132
Верно
The synonymic dominant in the following group - to stare, to glance, to peep, to look, to eye, to view
- is:

a. to view
b. to eye
c. to glance
d. to look,
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: to look,
Вопрос 133
Неверно
The synonyms “dad – father – parent” are

a. stylistic
b. partial
c. ideographic-stylistic
d. ideographic
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: ideographic-stylistic
Вопрос 134
Верно
The system of the grammatical forms of a word is

a. a root
b. a syntax
c. a paradigm
d. allomorph
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a paradigm
Вопрос 135
Неверно
The type of the compound word “heavy-hearted” is

a. neutral
b. morphological-syntactical
c. (mophological
d. syntactical
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: neutral
Вопрос 136
Верно
The type of word-building used in the words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

a. shortening
b. conversion
c. blending
d. compounding
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: compounding
Вопрос 137
Верно
The types of phraseological units according to A.I. Smirnitsky

1. maiden attempt a. two-top
2. to kiss the rod b. many-top
3. baker’s dozen c. one-top
4. to show the white feather
5. to give in

a. 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c, 5-a
b. 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-c, 5-a
c. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-a, 5-c
d. 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-c

Отзыв

Правильный ответ: 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-c
Вопрос 138
Верно
The underlined words in the following sentences: «How often do you milk the cows?», «Restaurants
in all large cities have ups and downs», «He began to nose about like an old bloodhound» are cases
of

a. Metaphor
b. conversion
c. Cliché
d. Allusion
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: conversion
Вопрос 139
Верно
The USA, the UNO are

a. shortened words
b. clipping
c. Latin abbreviations
d. acronyms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: acronyms
Вопрос 140
Верно
The word “ballet” is

a. a completely assimilated borrowing
b. a native word
c. an unassimilated borrowing / a barbarism
d. a partially assimilated borrowing

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a partially assimilated borrowing
Вопрос 141
Верно
The word “chit-chat” is

a. an example of reduplication
b. an example of sound interchange
c. an example of clipping
d. an etymological doublet
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: an example of reduplication
Вопрос 142
Верно
The word “mag” (magazine, magnum, magistrate) is

a. an abbreviation
b. a spelling shortening
c. an acronym
d. a clipping
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a clipping
Вопрос 143
Верно
The words “heir — air” refer to

a. homophones
b. homographs
c. homonyms proper
d. paronyms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: homophones
Вопрос 144
Верно
The words “ incredulous” and “incredible” are

a. synonyms
b. paronyms
c. antonyms
d. homonyms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: paronyms
Вопрос 145
Верно
The words ‘pacifist, innocence, cordial’ have

a. a free stem
b. a semi-bound stem
c. a compound stem
d. a bound stem
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a bound stem
Вопрос 146
Верно
The word TV is a case of

a. abbreviation
b. back-formation
c. clipping
d. blending
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: abbreviation
Вопрос 147
Верно
Three types of composition in English are

a. neutral, morphological and syntactic
b. syntactic, morphological and linguistic
c. simple, neutral and morphological
d. compound, simple and neutral

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: neutral, morphological and syntactic
Вопрос 148
Верно
Two or more words identical in sound-form but different in meaning, distribution and (in many cases)
origin are

a. synonyms
b. paronyms
c. antonyms
d. homonyms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: homonyms
Вопрос 149
Верно
What are the four types which represent the main structural types of Modern English words?

a. root words, derived words, loan words and shortenings
b. compounds, shortenings, homonyms and root words
c. root words, derived words, compounds and shortenings
d. root words, derivatives, compounds and international words

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: root words, derived words, compounds and shortenings
Вопрос 150
Верно
What is blending?

a. Affixation
b. Sound imitation, telescoping and reduplication
c. Sound and stress interchange
d. The shortening of two words and then compounding them

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: The shortening of two words and then compounding them
Вопрос 151
Верно
What is clipping?

a. the result of shortening and compounding
b. the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words
c. the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts
d. the result of merging parts of words into one new word

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts

Вопрос 152
Верно
What is the meaning of -scribe in the words transcribe, subscribe, describe, inscribe

a. Write
b. Say
c. Print
d. Delete
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Write
Вопрос 153
Верно
What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words: monolingual, monosyllable, monologue?

a. One
b. All
c. Each
d. Every
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: One
Вопрос 154
Верно
When two or more homonyms can originate from different meanings of the same word when, for
some reason, the semantic structure of the word breaks into several parts, this type of formation of
homonyms is called

a. borrowing
b. split of polysemy
c. word-building
d. sound imitation
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: split of polysemy
Вопрос 155
Верно
Which branch of lexicology deals with the meaning of words and other linguistic units?

a. Etymology
b. Semasiology
c. Lexical Morphology
d. Onomasiology
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Semasiology
Вопрос 156
Верно
Which meaning of the polysemantic adjective “barbaric” is its primary meaning

a. uncivilized and uncultured
b. primitive; unsophisticated
c. foreign
d. very cruel and violent

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: foreign
Вопрос 157
Верно
Which of the adjectives is built with the help of a suffix denoting the absence of the quality

a. eatable
b. hopeless
c. childish
d. talkative
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: hopeless
Вопрос 158
Неверно
Which of the following compounds are non-transparent?

a. bookcase, weekend, bottle-opener
b. center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist
c. wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull’s-eye
d. stone-cold, care-free, knowledge-greedy

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Правильный ответ: wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull’s-eye
Вопрос 159
Неверно
Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun?

a. a help — to help
b. a jump — to jump
c. a monkey — to monkey
d. a peel- to peel
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Правильный ответ: a monkey — to monkey
Вопрос 160
Неверно
Which of the following secondary semantic changes consists in naming unpleasant or offensive
referents in a polite, conventional or indirect way?

a. degradation of meaning
b. irony
c. litotes
d. euphemism
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: euphemism
Вопрос 161
Неверно
Which of the following words are blendings?

a. ping-pong. topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie
b. hanky, nighty, radar
c. M. P., USA, BBC
d. smog, brunch, spork

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Правильный ответ: smog, brunch, spork
Вопрос 162
Неверно
Which of the following words are derived compounds?

a. well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered
b. overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds
c. boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower
d. forget-me-not, information, disagreement

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered

Вопрос 163
Неверно
Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes?

a. cloudy, girlish
b. funny, sunny
c. poetic, picturesque
d. booklet, hanky
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: booklet, hanky
Вопрос 164
Неверно
Which of the following words have derived stems

a. chortle, goody-goody, UNO
b. beautiful, girlish, activate
c. distance, experiment, sequence, police
d. story-teller, match-box, bookshop

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: beautiful, girlish, activate
Вопрос 165
Верно
Which of the phraseological units are completely non-motivated and usually stable?

a. phraseological unities
b. phraseological fusions
c. phraseological collocations
d. clichés
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: phraseological fusions
Вопрос 166
Верно
Which of these nouns are derived from verbs?

a. a fall, a windglass, an act
b. a pen , a weekend, a drink
c. a break, a catch, a jump
d. a pain, a tramp, a button

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: a break, a catch, a jump
Вопрос 167
Неверно
Which of these prefixes have the opposite meaning?

a. ultra-, sub-, pre-
b. de-, un-, over-
c. -anti-, counter-, non-
d. be-, co-, extra

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: -anti-, counter-, non-
Вопрос 168
Верно
Which of the suffixes is an adjective-suffix?

a. –fy
b. –nes
c. –er
d. –ous
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: –ous
Вопрос 169
Неверно
Which of the suffixes is a verb-suffix?

a. –tion
b. –ing
c. –an
d. –en
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: –en
Вопрос 170
Неверно
Which of the suffixes is used for the formation of nouns?

a. –less
b. –ish
c. –ize
d. –ness
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: –ness
Вопрос 171
Неверно
Which of the words has a prefix denoting repetition?

a. befriend
b. reappear
c. return
d. enrich
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: reappear
Вопрос 172
Неверно
Which word-building type is similar to conversion

a. initial and final clipping
b. blending, telescoping, reduplication
c. adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization
d. lexical and graphical abbreviations

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization
Вопрос 173
Неверно
Which word-building ways are similar to compounding?

a. Back formation
b. Affixation
c. Conversion
d. Blending and reduplication

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: Blending and reduplication
Вопрос 174
Неверно
Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

a. by adding derivational affixes to stems
b. by joining two or more stems
c. by means of changing the paradigm
d. by combining affixes of two words

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: by joining two or more stems
Вопрос 175
Неверно
Word-formation

a. helps to understand the meaning of the word
b. deals with grammatical form of the word
c. is an autonomous language mechanism which is used to make new words
d. deals with segmentation of words into morphemes

Отзыв
Правильный ответ: is an autonomous language mechanism which is used to make new words
Вопрос 176
Верно
Word-formation is the process of creating

a. different dictionaries
b. new words
c. lexical homonyms
d. root-morphemes
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: new words
Вопрос 177
Верно
Words coined only for this particular occasion are

a. neologisms
b. particular words
c. author’s coinages
d. nonce-words
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: nonce-words
Вопрос 178
Неверно
Words denoting objects and phenomena which are things of the past and no longer exist are called

a. archaisms
b. obsolete words
c. bookish words
d. historisms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: obsolete words
Вопрос 179
Верно
Words used by educated people in the course of ordinary conversation or when writing letters to
intimate friends

a. literary colloquial
b. jargonisms
c. slang
d. colloquial
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: literary colloquial
Вопрос 180
Неверно
Words very similar in sound form and morphemic structure but different in meanings are called

a. paronyms
b. homophones
c. homographs
d. homonyms
Отзыв
Правильный ответ: paronyms

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A bound stem contains

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d. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

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Правильный ответ: shortened

Affixation is the formation of words

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d. by joining two or more stems

Правильный ответ: by adding derivational affixes to stems

Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

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d. less known types

Правильный ответ: principal and productive ways of forming new words

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d. an ultimate constituent of a word

Правильный ответ: a positional variant of a morpheme

A non-affixal type of word-building is

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Правильный ответ: conversion

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Правильный ответ: the system of the grammatical forms of a word

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d. a common element of words within a word-family

Правильный ответ: a derivational morpheme preceding the root

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d. a derivational morpheme preceding the root

Правильный ответ: a derivational morpheme following the stem

A variety of a language which prevails in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary,

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Правильный ответ: a dialect

A.V. Kunin named the following phraseological units

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Правильный ответ: nominative, adjectival

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d. communicative, substantive, interjectional and modal

Правильный ответ: communicative, substantive, interjectional and modal

British, American, Australian and Canadian English are

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Правильный ответ: regional variants of standard language

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d. its grammatical paradigm

Правильный ответ: its morphological structure

By their graphic and sound-form homonyms may be

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d. full and partial homonyms

Правильный ответ: perfect homonyms, homophones and homographs

Choose the words of Germanic origin

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Правильные ответы: summer, can, Earth, field

Combinability of the word depends on

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d. its lexical meaning

Правильный ответ: its lexical, grammatical and lexico-grammatical meanings

Compound derivatives contain

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d. one free morpheme

Compounds may be coordinative and subordinative according to

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d. the order of their immediate constituents

Правильный ответ: the relations between their immediate constituents

Compound words are

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d. nouns denoting some feelings and state