SAMPLE TEST
1. Find a loan-word not completely assimilated with the English language phonetically:
a) police c) flower b) river d) wall
2. Find a French loan-word:
a) meat c) sausage b) pig d) ox
3. Find the word which is motivated morphologically:
a) aunt c) father b) singer d) niece
4. Find an example of metonymy:
a) She got to the mouth of the river c) The valley was silent b) He was a lion in the fight d) He had only a few coppers in his pocket
5. Find a word with two free morphemes:
a) unbearable c) merry-go-round b) first-nighter d) childhood
6. Which of the words is divided into Immediate Constituents?
a) joy-ful-ly c) un-expect-ed b) in-attent-ive d) in-significant
7. Which of the words is divided into Ultimate Constituents?
a) un-employment c) un-doubt-ed-ly b) un-moving d) ir-resisitible
8. Find a word with a productive Germanic prefix:
a) misprint c) rewrite b) abnormal d) antitype
9. Find a word with a productive Romanic prefix:
a) afternoon c) unable b) prearrange d) undertake
10.Find a word with a Greek prefix:
a) antifascist c) extraordinary b) postwar d) overturn
11.Which of the suffixes is used for the formation of nouns?
a) -ish c) -ize b) -less d) -ness 12.Find a suffixated adjective formed from a verb stem:
a) foolish c) collective b) peaceful d) horned
13.Find a compound adjective:
a) sick-leave c) backbite b) sky-blue d) armchair
14.Find a compound word in which the components are merely placed one after another (juxtaposition):
a) Anglo-Saxon c) sportsman b) horseman d) handiwork 15.Find an example of a derivational compound word:
a) lady-killer c) looking-glass b) masterpiece d) short-sighted
16.Find an example of a derivational compound adjective formed with the help of a suffix:
a) red-hot c) absent-minded b) ice-cold d) military-looking
17.Find a nominal-verbal compound:
a) cross-question c) long-tailed b) writing-table d) peace-fighter
18.Find an example of apocope:
a) curtsy c) exam b) flu d) bus
19.Find a word-group the structure formula of which is V + prep + N:
a) to depend on something c) to put forward a question b) to get to know d) to deliver a speech
20.Which of the words is more frequently used in the USA than in Britain?
a) subway c) tube b) underground d) metro
21.Which meaning of the polysemantic adjective barbaric is its primary meaning?
a) very cruel and violent c) foreign b) primitive; unsophisticated d) uncivilized and uncultured
22.The word three is …
a) the English word proper c) of the Common Germanic origin b) of the Indo-European origin d) Scandinavian borrowing
23.The main source of the borrowed phraseological unit to cross the Rubicon is …
a) facts and events of the world history c) classical languages b) the Bible d) ancient legends and myths
24.Find an example of a compound word proper:
a) a pen-holder c) black-haired b) a break-down d) a set-back
25.Find an example of a subordinative compound:
a) fifty-fifty c) snowball b) actor-manager d) walkie-talkie
26.Find a derivational adjective-nominal compound:
a) cooking-stove c) doorway b) brick-layer d) red-nosed
27. Which of the prefixes denotes time relations?
a) un- c) pre- b) dis- d) in-
28.Find an example of homographs:
a) right (правий) – write (писати) c) ring (перстень) – ring (телефонний дзвінок) b) bow (уклін) –bow (лук) d) to found (засновувати) – found (past tense from to find)
29. Find a lexical abbreviation which is read as an ordinary word:
a) H-bomb c) USA b) T.U.C. d) NATO
30. Find an example of a full Briticism:
a) fortnight c) ship b) country d) window
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