Etymology is a branch of Lexicology which studies

a) the vocabulary of a language

b) variants and dialects of a language

c) the origin of the English word-stock

d) morphological structure of the word

e) sound system of a language

 

11) The following word pairs bar-pub (бар-пивная), cute-lovely, pretty (привлекательная, прелестная), fill in – fill out (заполнять бланк), grade-mark(оценка, отметка),schedule- time-table (расписание) belong to

a) American English and British English

b) Canadian English and British English

c) Australian English and British English

d) American English and Irish English

e) Australian and New Zealand English

 

13) The loans “cheese, wine, plant, call, die, sky, face,figure,army” are:

a) completely unassimilated

b) partially assimilated

c) completely assimilated

d) barbarisms

e) foreign words

 

14) The words “colt, Ford, sandwich, hooligan, mackintosh, china, cheviot, Wellingtons” are cases of:

a) polysemy

b) metaphor

c) metonymy

d) alliteration

e) barbarisms

 

15) The words “zoo, smog, lab, Interpol, U.N.O., SALT g-force, a documentary, finals” are cases of:

a) shortening of various kinds

b) sound imitation

c) back-formation

d) metonymy

e) metaphor

 

16) The basic unit of Modern English Lexicology is:

a) the phoneme

b) the word

c) the morpheme

d) the sentence

e) the phrase

 

18) Which of the following are not the derivational affixes of the adjectives?

a) –ness,-ty, -or;

b) – ish,-ous, ive;

c) – ic,-able,-ible;

d) – less,-full;

e) –ing,-y

 

19) Modern English word-formation has to do with:

a) combinability of words

b) ways of forming new words

c) grammatical endings

d) word meaning

e) word structure

20) English Lexicography has to do with:

a) the territorial dialects and variants of English

b) the origin of English words

c)dictionary making and types of dictionaries of the modern language

d) sociolinguistics

e) syntactic patterns

 

21) Nouns denote:

a) actions

b) people, objects and natural phenomena

c) qualities

d) morphemes

e) sentences