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

<variant>Germanic

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

<variant>5th

<question>Britain was invaded by three Germanic tribes:

<variant>the Jutes, the Angles, the Saxons

<question>The Norman Conquest took place in …

<variant>1066

<question>Printing was introduced into England by…

<variant>William Caxton

<question>Julius Caesar tried to invade Britain in …

<variant>55 BC

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

<variant>Zephyrus

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

<variant>gender, number and case

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

<variant>polysemantic

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

<variant>etymological doublets

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

<variant>bilingual

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

called…

<variant>synonyms

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

built by means of …

<variant>conversion

<question>Find a pair of homophones:

<variant>to meet - meat

<question>Find a pair of perfect homonyms:

<variant>bank – bank

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

<variant>red tapes

<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

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

<variant>synchronic and diachronic

<question>Free morphemes …

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

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

compiling dictionaries.

<variant>Lexicography

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

<variant>chin-chin

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

<variant>phraseological fusion

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

<variant>2 forms

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

<variant>7

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

<variant>army

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

<variant>antonyms

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

<variant>phraseological fusions

<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

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

<variant>regular verbs

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

<variant>William the Conqueror

<question>What language did the Norman conquerors speak?

<variant>French

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

<variant>native words

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

<variant>goody-goody

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

<variant>concept, referent, sound form

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

<variant>phraseological fusion

<question>The example of homophones is:

<variant>to die – to dye

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

<variant>back-formation

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

<variant>reduplication

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

<variant>French

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

<variant>matryoshka

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

<variant>3

<question>Say which words are of Scandinavian origin.

<variant>sky, skin, skill

<question>Say which word is OE.

<variant>helpan

<question>English in America is...

<variant>a regional variety of English

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

<variant>to milk

<question>Find the word built by means lexicalization:

<variant>customs (таможня)

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

<variant>fall from the fifth floor

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

<variant>hi

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

<variant>contraries

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

<variant>Greek

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

<variant>declarative

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

<variant>interrogative

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

<variant>exclamatory

<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

<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

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

<variant>French

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

<variant>tsar

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

<variant>blending

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

<variant>Scandinavian

<question>Britain was converted to Christianity in …

<variant>the 6th –7th centuries

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

They were sure that he would turn up.

<variant>syndetical connection

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

<variant>predicative 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

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

<variant>copulative

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

<variant>seoh

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

<variant>Latin

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

<variant>French

<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

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

<variant>Middle English

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

<variant>Wessex, Mercian, Kentish, Northumbrian

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

<variant>Orm

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

<variant>Henry VII

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

<variant>Henry VIII

<question>Parts of speech can be...

<variant>formal and notional

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

<variant>special, bilingual

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

<variant>special, unilingual

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

<variant>homographs

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

<variant>incandescence

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

<variant>look

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

<variant>blending

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

<variant>back formation

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

<variant>word-composition

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

<variant>blending

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

<variant>abbreviation

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

<variant>semantic stress

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

<variant>shortening

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

<variant>reduplication

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

<variant>sound interchange

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

<variant>conversion

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

<variant>phraseological unity

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

<variant>phraseological unity

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

<variant>tip-top

<question>Clipping is another name for ….

<variant>shortening

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

<variant>NATO

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

<variant>once in a blue moon

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

<variant>3

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

<variant>talked

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

<variant>glasses (spectacles)

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

<variant>beefalo (beef, buffalo)

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

<variant>fridge

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

<variant>forget-me-not

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

<variant>to quack

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

<variant>special, unilingual

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

<variant>ideographic

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

<variant>ideographic

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

<variant>absolute

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

<variant>stylistic

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

<variant>ideographic

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

<variant>contraries

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

<variant>homophones

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

<variant>grammatical

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

<variant>partial

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

<variant>Greek

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

<variant>French

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

<variant>French

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

<variant>Scandinavian

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

<variant>adversative

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

<variant>disjunctive

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

<variant>asyndetical

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

<variant>object clause

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

<variant>object clause

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

<variant>adverbial clause

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

<variant>parenthetical clause

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

<variant>adverbial

<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

<question>What language is spoken in Denmark?

<variant>Danish

<question>What language is spoken in Liechtenstein?

<variant>German

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

<variant>the Isle-of-Man

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

<variant>secret

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

<variant>Frank’s Casket

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

<variant>Geordie

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

<variant>Beowulf

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

<variant>North American English

<question>Which of the following is a Canadianism?

<variant>bear walker

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

<variant>fandamntastic

<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

<question>Explanatory dictionaries are also known as ….

<variant>unilingual

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

<variant>one-top and two-top units

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

<variant>[isku:l]

<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.

<question>Ebonics is ….

<variant>another term for African American Vernacular English

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

<variant>Toni Morrison

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

<variant>18th century

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

<variant>Australia

<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

<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

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

<variant>waterproof

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

<variant>half-read

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

<variant>unemployment

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

<variant>helper

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

<variant>schoolboy

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

<variant>cold-blooded

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

<variant>1

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

<variant>2

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

<variant>characters

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

<variant>AIDS

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

<variant>merry-go-round

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

<variant>native

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

<variant>plurality

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

<variant>glory

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

<variant>budget

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

<variant>machine

<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

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

<variant>articulation

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

Diner: ‘Do you serve fish here?’

Waiter: ‘We serve anyone here, sir.’

<variant>polysemy

<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

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

classification:

<variant>phraseological fusion

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

classification:

<variant>phraseological unity

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

<variant>phraseological unity

<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

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

<variant>to see – to behold

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

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

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

<variant>conjunction

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

<variant>bee

<question>Find a pair of full homonyms.

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

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

<variant>flu

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

<variant>attributive clause

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

<variant>parenthetical clause

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

<variant>copulative

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

<variant>complex sentence

<question>The sentence is the main object of:

<variant>syntax

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

<variant>Ilyish

<question>Nouns are divided into:

<variant>animate and inanimate

<question>Find the example of Pluralia Tantum:

<variant>scissors

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

<variant>any function

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

<variant>proper 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

<question>Irish, Welsh and Scottish are … languages

<variant>Celtic

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

<variant>Common Indo-European words

<question>Britain was converted to Christianity in …

<variant>the 6th –7th centuries

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

<variant>preterit-present

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

<variant>[ku:, du:n]

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

<variant>to give

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

<variant>Geordie

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

<variant>Cockney

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

<variant>idiolectal, diaphonic and allophonic

<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

<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

<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

<question>Parts of speech are discriminated:

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

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