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