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Теоретическая грамматика и фонетика (английский язык)

1. The word “grammar” goes back to:

A) a Greek word

B) a Latin word

C) a French word

D) an English word

E) a German word

2. Language is a system of signs, i.e,:

A) sounds, words, phrases, sentences

B) morphemes, lexemes, phrasemes, proposemes

C) phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, phrasemes

D) vocabulary, grammar, phonetics

E) sounds and phonemes

Верный ответ: А

3. Morpheme is:

A) the lowest meaningful unit

B) a syllable of a word

C) a nominative unit of language

D) a polynominative unit of language

E) a word

4. Word is:

A) a nominative unit of language

B) the main communicative unit

C) the lowest meaningful unit

D) the dependent syntactic unit

E) a word-group

5. Sentence is:

A) the main communicative unit

B) the lowest meaningful unit

C) the dependent syntactic unit

D) a nominative unit of language

E) a text

6. The ordered set of grammatical forms in a category constitutes:

A) a paradigm

B) a sentence

C) an opposition

D) a grammatical meaning

E) a syntactic syntagma

7. The combination of two words or word-groups one of which is modified by the other is …

A) a syntactic syntagma

B) a sentence

C) an opposition

D) a grammatical meaning

E) a paradigm

8. Inner inflexion, outer inflexion, suppletivity are the bases of:

A) synthetical grammatical forms

B) analytical grammatical forms

C) sentences

D) synthetical and analytical grammatical forms

E) none of these forms

9. A combination of an auxiliary word with a basic word which expresses some grammatical meaning is:

A) analytical grammatical forms

B) synthetical and analytical grammatical forms

C) sentences

D) synthetical grammatical forms

E) none of these forms

10. How many constituents does a language have?

A) 3

B) 2

C) 4

D) 5

E) 6

11. The grammatical system of language presents:

A) the whole set of regularities determining the combination of nominative units in the formation of utterances

B) the material (phonetic) form of its significative units

C) the whole set of nominative means of language (words and stable word-groups)

D) an analitical grammatical form

E) a synthetical grammatical form

12. The word combines in its semantic structure two meanings:

A) lexical and grammatical

B) synonymic and antonymic

C) formal and informal

D) native and borrowed

E) semantic and semasiological

13. What grammatical meaning is always marked morphologically? (It has its marker.)

A) explicit

B) implicit

C) general

D) dependent

E) transitive

14. A system of expressing a generalized grammatical meaning by means of paradigmatic correlation of grammatical forms is called:

A) a grammatical category

B) a syntagma

C) an opposition

D) a paradigm

E) a sentence

15. The paradigmatic correlations of grammatical forms in a category are exposed by:

A) the grammatical opposition

B) grammatical relations

C) grammatical meaning

D) a pair of forms

E) the sentence

16. To notional parts of speech belong:

A) noun, adjective, numeral, pronoun, verb, adverb

B) preposition, interjection, verb, adverb

C) article, particle, noun, numeral, verb

D) noun, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, numeral

E) article, adjective, preposition, interjection

17. To functional parts of speech belong:

A) article, particle, preposition, conjunction, modal word, interjection

B) article, preposition, conjunction, particle, pronoun

C) adverb, interjection, modal word, particle

D) adverb, pronoun, verb, conjunction, particle

E) article, adjective, preposition, interjection

18. The … as a part of speech is a word expressing thingness in the widest sense of the word.

A) noun

B) verb

C) adjective

D) pronoun

E) adverb

19. The noun has the categorial meaning of …

A) ‘substance’ or ‘thingness’

B) ‘action’ or ‘movement’

C) ‘action’ or ‘substance’

D) ‘thingness’ or ‘action’

E) ‘substance’ or ‘quality’

20. The … performs the central part in the expression of the predicative functions in the sentence, establishing the connection between the situation and the objective reality.

A) verb

B) adjective

C) noun

D) adverb

E) pronoun

21. The general categorical meaning of the verb is …

A) not only process developing in time, but it also includes states or forms of existence

B) a process developing in time only

C) to denote states or forms of existence

D) not a process developing in time

E) combination with an adverb as the modifier of the action

22. In modern linguistics parts of speech are discriminated on the basis of the following criteria:

A) meaning, form, function

B) position, form, meaning

C) position, meaning, function

D) form, meaning

E) meaning and function

23. Words of complete nominative meaning characterized by self-dependent functions in the sentence are referred to as:

A) notional parts

B) functional parts of speech

C) meaningless

D) unchangeable

E) prepositions

24. Words of incomplete nominative meaning characterized by non-selfdependent, mediatory functions in the sentence are referred to as:

A) functional parts of speech

B) notional parts of speech

C) changeable

D) meaningless

E) nouns

25. The grammatical category expressing the relation of the action denoted by the verb to the moment of speech is referred to as:

A) tense

B) mood

C) voice

D aspect

E) person-number

26. The grammatical category reflecting the inherent mode of the realization of the process irrespective of its timing is referred as:

A) aspect

B) tense

C) mood

D) voice

E) person-number

27. The grammatical category of the verb showing the direction of the processes regards the participants of the situation reflected in a syntactic construction is the category of:

A) voice

B) aspect

C) mood

D) tense

E) person-number

28. How many approaches are there to the problem of parts of speech?

A) 4

B) 2

C) 3

D) 5

E) 6

29. What approach to the problem of parts of speech is based on Latin grammar?

A) Classical

B) Functional

C) Complex

D) Distributional

E) Declinable

30. Who was the author of a functional approach to the problem of parts of speech?

A) H. Sweet

B) L. Sapir

C) C. Fries

D) A. Mayer

E) N. Chomsky

31. What approach to the parts of speech classification can be illustrated by the classification introduced by Charles Fries:

A) Distributional

B) Functional

C) Complex

D) Classical

E) Declinable

32. The immanent morphological category of the noun manifested in the forms of noun declension and showing the relations of the nounal referent to their objects and phenomena is the category of:

A) case

B) number

C) gender

D) article determination

E) tense

33. The category of gender of nouns is expressed in English by:

A) the correlation with personal pronouns of the third person

B) the suffix "-ess"

C) the suffix "-er"

D) analytical forms

E) synthetical forms

34. The opposition of the plural form of the noun to the singular form of the noun expresses the grammatical category of:

A) number

B) case

C) gender

D) article determination

E) tense

35. According to the functional classification to blackmail belongs to the following type:

A) composite

B) simple

C) expanded

D) sound-replacive

E) phrasal

36. What part of speech has the categorial meaning of property (qualitative and relative)?

A) the adjective

B) the adverb

C) the noun

D) the verb

E) the preposition

37. The … has the categorial meaning of the property of process or another property.

A) adverb

B) noun

C) verb

D) adjective

E) pronoun

38. The … has the categorial meaning of indication (deixis).

A) pronoun

B) adverb

C) noun

D) verb

E) preposition

39. What is a sentence?

A) the basic unit of syntax

B) the basic unit of grammar

C) the basic unit of phonetics

D) the basic unit of lexicology

E) the basic unit of language history

40. The interrogative sentence expresses …

A) a question, i.e. a request for information

B) a statement either affirmative or negative

C) ether affirmative or negative inducement

D) constitutes a special type belonging to the first three types at the same time

E) feelings and emotions of a speaker

41. The declarative sentence expresses …

A) a statement either affirmative or negative

B) a question, i.e. a request for information

C) ether affirmative or negative inducement

D) constitutes a special type belonging to the first three types at the same time

E) feelings and emotions of a speaker

42. The imperative sentence expresses …

A) ether affirmative or negative inducement

B) a question, i.e. a request for information

C) a statement either affirmative or negative

D) constitutes a special type belonging to the first three types at the same time

E) feelings and emotions of a speaker

43. According to the structure, sentences are distinguished into …

A) simple and composite

B) simple and complicated

C) complex and plain

D) complex and composite

E) complicated and plain

44. A sentence in which one predicative line is expressed. It is called as monopredicative, or:

A) simple

B) compound

C) polypredicative

D) complex

E) composite

45. A sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses:

A) compound

B) complex

C) polypredicative

D) composite

E) simple

46. Composite sentences (compound or complex) combined with the help of conjunctions are called:

A) syndetic

B) asyndetic

C) non-conjunctional

D) formal

E) prepositional

47. What are the level units of the syntactical level?

A) word-group and sentence

B) word and morpheme

C) morpheme and phoneme

D) word and sentence

E) phoneme and word

48. This syntactic theory was introduced by John Austin. According to this theory an utterance can be said with different intentions or purposes and therefore can influence the speaker and situation in different ways.

A) Speech Act Theory

B) Textlinguistics

C) Discourse Analysis

D) Constructional Syntax

E) Communicative Syntax

49. Syntagmatic relations of interdependence:

A) Predication

B) Subordination

C) Coordination

D) Primary Predication

E) Agreement

50. Syntagmatic relations of dependence:

A) Subordination

B) Coordination

C) Predication

D) Primary Predication

E) Agreement

51. Phonetics is an independent branch of:

A) Linguistics

B) Lexicology

C) Stylistics

D) Grammar

E) Logic

52. The unit of phonology is:

A) a phoneme

B) a sound

C) a morpheme

D) a syllable

E) a word

53. Allophones are:

A) variants of phonemes

B) phonemes themselves

C) morphemes

D) non-distinctive sounds

E) any sounds

54. A syllable which ends in a vowel sound is called:

A) open

B) closed

C) covered

D) uncovered

E) neutral

55. Intensity, duration and time are:

A) physical properties of speech sounds

B) branches of phonetics

C) components of intonation

D) aspects of phonetics

E) types of speech sounds

56. A syllable which ends in a consonant is:

A) closed

B) open

C) covered

D) uncovered

E) neutral

57. What are the dialects?

A) varieties that are spoken by social limited member of people and used in localities

B) functional or social aspects

C) distinctive and similar functions

D) psychological mechanism

E) language

58. Every dialect has some peculiarities in …

A) pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar

B) morphemes

C) letters

D) information

E) speaking mechanisms

59. The dialect is spoken by the less educated part of Londoners

A) Cockney

B) Scouse

C) Geordie

D) Cornish

E) Gallic

60. This is the dialect of Liverpool …

A) Scouse

B) Cockney

C) Geordie

D) Cornish

E) Gallic

61. Standard national pronunciation is sometimes called …

A) orthoepic norm

B) literary norm

C) dialectal variant

D) regional pronunciation

E) national pronunciation

62. What is RP?

A) Received Pronunciation

B) Regional Peculiarities

C) Royal Part

D) Regional Pronunciation

E) Rare Part

63. Dialectal differences are becoming less marked due to …

A) mass media, increased mobility of the population, concentration of the population in cities, political and social changes

B) increased mobility of the population

C) concentration of the population in cities

D) mass media

E) political and social changes

64. It is common knowledge that … has its national pronunciation standard.

A) the literary spoken form

B) dialect

C) language

D) dialectal spoken form

E) ethnic spoken form

65. RP is spoken by …

A) a comparatively small number of English people

B) a lot of English people

C) all English people

D) less educated English people

E) immigrants

66. According to the work of the vocal cords and the force of exhalation consonants are divided into:

A) voiced and voiceless

B) occlusive and nasal

C) constrictive and fricative

D) plosives and affricates

E) close and open

67. The first linguist who found a new branch of phonetics as phonology was:

A) I.A. Beudoin de Courtney

B) D.Jones

C) V.A.Vassiliev

D) L.V. Scherba

E) L.Palmer

68. What do speech mechanisms produce?

A) speech sounds

B) vowels

C) speech organs

D) consonants

E) speech styles

69. Prof. Shcherba’s syllabic theory is known as:

A) muscular tension theory

B) loudness theory

C) sonority theory

D) expiratory theory

E) historical

70. In English there are 4 types of syllables. What are they?

A) open, closed, covered, uncovered

B) open, closed, wide, narrow

C) covered, uncovered, wide, narrow

D) long, short, wide, narrow

E) open, closed, long, short

71. The sound /æ/ is produced in the:

A) front part of the tongue

В) back part of the tongue

C) middle part of the tongue

D) front-retracted part of the tongue

E) back-advanced part of the tongue

72. A syllable which begins in a vowel is called:

A) uncovered

B) open

C) covered

D) closed

E) free

73. What is a syllable?

A) the smallest phonetic group

B) intonation

C) phonetic style

D) structure of English words

E) the smallest phonostylistic group

74. Find the diphthong:

A) [əu]

B) [iː]

C) [ə]

D) [ɪ]

E) [ɔ]

75. What are the functions of a syllable?

A) constitutive and distinctive

B) phonostylistical and stylistical

C) constitutive and intonation

D) distinctive and phonetically

E) phonetically and intonation

76. The Standard pronunciation of the USA is:

A) General American English

B) Eastern American English

C) Southern American English

D) Received Pronunciation

E) Northern type of pronunciation

77. … studies the sound system of the language.

A) Phonetics

B) Grammar

C) Stylistics

D) Lexicology

E) Phonology

78. The sound /ə/ is produced in the:

A) middle part of the tongue

В) back part of the tongue

C) front part of the tongue

D) front-retracted part of the tongue

E) back-advanced part of the tongue

79. Dialect in Cornwall is called:

A) Cornish

B) Cockney

C) Scouse

D) Geordie

E) Scottish

80. A syllable which ends in a vowel is:

A) open

B) closed

C) covered

D) uncovered

E) neutral

81. Speech sounds which are not capable of forming a syllable are called:

A) non-syllabic

B) syllabic

C) sonorous

D) open

E) closed

82. Between which types of pronunciation should we choose when teaching English as a second language?

A) Received Pronunciation (R.P.) and General American (G.A.)

B) Scottish pronunciation and G.A.

C) Eastern American and R.P.

D) Southern American and G.A.

E) Northern English and Eastern American

83. It is a close front vowel which is produced when the front of the tongue is the highest part, and is near the roof of the mouth:

A) /і:/

B) /u:/

C) /ə/

D) /ɒ/

E) /æ/

84. What is the general impression of American intonation?

A) it is rather monotonous

B) very emotional

C) fall-rise and rise-fall are often used

D) very fast

E) very slow

85. A syllable which begins in a consonant is called:

A) covered

B) open

C) uncovered

D) closed

E) free

86. Prof. Jesperson’s theory is called:

A) sonority theory

B) expiratory theory

C) muscular tension-theory

D) loudness

E) functional

87. According to this theory each syllable corresponds to one expiration, a word consists of as many syllables as there are such expirations made when the word is uttered:

A) expiratory theory

B) muscular tension theory

C) sonority

D) loudness

E) historical

88. According to this theory the mechanism of syllable formation and division in the pronunciation of Russian Language may serve as a basis for the general theory of syllables. With the help of different techniques it was found out that a syllable is formed by pharyngeal cavity:

A) loudness theory

B) muscular tension theory

C) expiratory theory

D) sonority theory

E) historical

89. Phonetics is connected with non-linguistic sciences:

A) physiology

B) mathematics

C) geography

D) geometry

E) none of them

90. The pronunciation of the following words: dance /da:ns/, sum /sum/, love /luv/, man /man/ belongs to:

A) Northern English

B) RP

C) Standard Scottish

D) GA

E) Eastern American

91. According to the place of articulation such consonant phonemes as /t/ and /d/ are:

A) alveolar

B) bilabial

C) dental

D) palatal

E) velar

92. According to the place of articulation such consonant phonemes as /k/ and /g/ are:

A) velar

B) bilabial

C) dental

D) palatal

E) alveolar

93. Rhythmical sound waves are perceived by people as …

A) vowels

B) consonants

C) sonorants

D) affricates

E) occlusive

94. … is primarily concerned with how we interpret and systemize sounds.

A) Phonology

B) Linguistic / psychological level

C) An allophone

D) The chain of events

E) The process of speech production

95. The aim of the phonological analysis is …

A) to establish distinctive differences between sounds

B) to distinguish the meanings

C) to teach a foreign language to any type of learner

D) to show considerable phonetic differences

E) to consider the methods applied in investigating the sound matter of the language

96. According to the place of articulation such consonant phonemes as /p/ and /b/ are:

A) bilabial

B) alveolar

C) dental

D) palatal

E) velar

97. There are … consonants in English.

A) 24

B) 23

C) 22

D) 25

E) 21

98. … is a powerful means of communication. It has a great potential for expressing ideas and emotions.

A) Intonation

B) Vowel

C) Rhythm

D) Notation

E) Sound

99. … is the rate, or duration of speech.

A) Tempo

B) Rhythm

C) Pause

D) Pitch

E) Intonation

100. … is closely connected with stress.

A) Rhythm

B) Tempo

C) Pause

D) Pitch

E) Intonation