Basic vocabulary of English

a) Is characterized by a large number of terms

b) is rejected by contemporary English speaking community

c) is mainly used in poetry

d) are stylistically neutral words

e) consists of obsolete words

 

51) Which of the following lexical units belong to the basic vocabulary?

a) kid, get on, be through, be over

b) begin, continue end, child, baby

c) commerce, proceed, terminate

d) warhead, missile, pneumonia

e) thee, thou, oft

 

52) Which of the following lexical units belong to informal words?

a) coffee, day, mother

b) society, glass, go on

c) play, kid, estimate

d) table, vase, politics

e) get on, kid,get started,be over

 

53) Which of the following words are early Latin borrowings?

a) cherry, cheese, pear, mill, kitchen

b) pleasure, army, glamour

c) take, send, mother

d) telephone, telegraph, politics

e) jungle, create, estimate

 

54) Which of the following words are of Celtic origin?

a) cherry, cheese, pear, mill

b) bald, down, druid, bard, cradle

c) pleasure, cherry, nill, piper

d) call, take, die, law, husband, window

e) estimate, evaluate, story

 

55)Which of the following words are of Scandinavian origin?

a) pleasure, cherry, nill, piper

b) call, take, die, law, husband, window

c) London, Manchester

d) send, play, chair

e) estimate, evaluate, story

 

56) Which of the following words are of Norman - French origin?

a) tape- recorder, waltz, story

b) London, Manchester, Bristol

c) court, judge, administration, pupil, lesson, library

d) call, take, die, sky, husband

e)send, play, chess