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lexicology 2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

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1.

similarity of position is one of the metaphor types of similiarity. Find its example.

a)

head (of a cabbage), bottleneck, teeth (of a saw, a comb);

b)

foot (of a page, of a mountain), head (of procession);

c)

orange, hazel, chestnut

d)

a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);

2.

similarity of shape is one of the metaphor types of similiarity. Find its example.

a)

head (of a cabbage), bottleneck, teeth (of a saw, a comb);

b)

orange, hazel, chestnut

c)

foot (of a page, of a mountain), head (of procession);

d)

a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);

3.

similarity of function and behaviour is one of the metaphor types of similiarity. Find its example.

a)

foot (of a page, of a mountain), head (of procession);

b)

orange, hazel, chestnut

c)

head (of a cabbage), bottleneck, teeth (of a saw, a comb);

d)

a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);

4.

There are different types of metonymies: 

a)

the material of which an object is made may become the name of the object and names of inventors very often become terms to denote things they invented,

b)

All answers are correct.

c)

the name of the place may become the name of the people or of an object placed there and some geographical names can also become common nouns through metonymy

d)

names of musical instruments may become names of musicians when they are united in an orchestra:

e)

the name of some person may become a common noun, e.g., boycott was originally the name of an Irish family who were so much disliked by their neighbours that they did not mix with them.

5.

Find examples of the material of which an object is made may become the name of the object

a)

the House – members of Parliament, the White House – the Administration of the USA

b)

a glass, boards;

c)

the violin, the saxophone;

d)

watt, om, roentgen;

e)

holland (linen fabrics), Brussels (a special kind of carpets), China (porcelain).

6.

Find examples of names of inventors very often become terms to denote things they invented;

a)

watt, om, roentgen;

b)

a glass, boards;

c)

the House – members of Parliament, the White House – the Administration of the USA

d)

the violin, the saxophone;

e)

holland (linen fabrics), Brussels (a special kind of carpets), China (porcelain).

7.

Find examples the name of the place may become the name of the people or of an object placed

a)

the House – members of Parliament, the White House – the Administration of the USA

b)

a glass, boards;

c)

the violin, the saxophone;

d)

watt, om, roentgen;

e)

holland (linen fabrics), Brussels (a special kind of carpets), China (porcelain).

8.

Find examples of names of musical instruments may become names of musicians when they are united in an orchestra:

a)

the House – members of Parliament, the White House – the Administration of the USA

b)

a glass, boards;

c)

the violin, the saxophone;

d)

watt, om, roentgen;

e)

holland (linen fabrics), Brussels (a special kind of carpets), China (porcelain).

9.

Find examples of some geographical names

a)

holland (linen fabrics), Brussels (a special kind of carpets), China (porcelain).

b)

the violin, the saxophone;

c)

a glass, boards;

d)

the House – members of Parliament, the White House – the Administration of the USA

e)

watt, om, roentgen;

10.

What is context?

a)

names of musical instruments may become names of musicians when they are united in an orchestra:

b)

the name of the place may become the name of the people or of an object placed there and some geographical names can also become common nouns through metonymy

c)

the material of which an object is made may become the name of the object and names of inventors very often become terms to denote things they invented,

d)

the minimum stretch of speech necessary and sufficient to determine which of the possible meanings of a polysemantic word is used

e)

the name of some person may become a common noun, e.g., boycott was originally the name of an Irish family who were so much disliked by their neighbours that they did not mix with them.

11.

What is a word-formation?

a)

the material of which an object is made may become the name of the object and names of inventors very often become terms to denote things they invented,

b)

patterns of forming new lexical units; lexical morphemes & higher segments

c)

the name of the place may become the name of the people or of an object placed there and some geographical names can also become common nouns through metonymy

d)

names of musical instruments may become names of musicians when they are united in an orchestra:

e)

the name of some person may become a common noun, e.g., boycott was originally the name of an Irish family who were so much disliked by their neighbours that they did not mix with them.

12.

word-formation processes divided into ……

a)

derivation, compounding, affixation;

b)

suffixation, prefixation, conversion, borrowing;

c)

adjectives, adverbs, compounding, affixation;

d)

All answers are correct.

e)

major word-formation processes and minor word-formation processes

13.

Major Word Classes consists of……

a)

derivation, compounding, affixation;

b)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

c)

suffixation, prefixation, conversion, borrowing;

d)

adjectives, adverbs, compounding, affixation;

e)

All answers are correct.

14.

Major word-formation processes

a)

adjectives, adverbs, compounding, affixation;

b)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

c)

nouns, verbs,

d)

Derivation, Compounding, Affixation (Suffixation, Prefixation), Conversion, Borrowing;

e)

all answers are correct

15.

Minor Word Classes include….

a)

adjectives, adverbs, compounding, affixation;

b)

auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, determiners "closed" no new words are added functors, provide structure or functions words

c)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

d)

nouns, verbs,

e)

all answers are correct

16.

Minor word-formation processes

a)

Back-formation, Blending, Clipping, Reduplication, Acronymy

b)

adjectives, adverbs, compounding, affixation;

c)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

d)

nouns, verbs,

e)

all answers are correct

17.

What is a root?

a)

the form of a word after all affixes are removed (- derivational & inflectional affixes)

b)

the form of a word after all inflectional affixes are removed (+ derivational & - inflectional affixes)

c)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

d)

nouns, verbs,

e)

All answers are correct.

18.

What is a stem?

a)

nouns, verbs

b)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

c)

all answers are correct

d)

the form of a word after all affixes are removed (- derivational & inflectional affixes)

e)

the form of a word after all inflectional affixes are removed (+ derivational & - inflectional affixes)

19.

It is divided into suffixation and prefixation.

a)

Composition

b)

Conversion

c)

Affixation

d)

Derivation

e)

Shortening

20.

It is one of the most histories of English. It consists in adding an affix to the stem of a definite part of speech.

a)

Conversion

b)

Affixation

c)

Composition

d)

Derivation

e)

Shortening

21.

……. is one of the main ways of enriching vocabulary.

a)

Composition

b)

Conversion

c)

Word-building

d)

Derivation

e)

Shortening

22.

There are four main ways of word-building in modern English:

a)

Conversion

b)

All of them

c)

Composition

d)

Abbreviation

e)

Derivation

23.

It is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word

a)

root

b)

ending

c)

suffix

d)

prefix

e)

stem

24.

It is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

a)

prefix

b)

suffix

c)

ending

d)

root

e)

stem

25.

...is the formation of words by means of adding a prefix to the stem.

a)

Composition

b)

Conversion

c)

Prefixation

d)

Abbreviation

e)

Derivation

26.

…… is the formation of words with the help of suffixes.

a)

Composition

b)

Conversion

c)

Suffixation

d)

Derivation

e)

Abbreviation

27.

…… is a short form of a word or phrase.

a)

Word-building

b)

Abbreviation

c)

Conversion

d)

Composition

e)

Derivation

28.

The process of shortening; words from initial letters = pronounced as sequences –pronounced as words.

a)

blending

b)

acronyms

c)

shortening

d)

conversion

e)

composition

29.

A minor word-formation process. It consits of processes of clipping, acronymy, blending.

a)

shortening

b)

acronyms

c)

blending

d)

conversion

e)

composition

30.

The process of shortening; shortened polysyllabic words with independent stress pattern + informal spelling.

a)

acronyms

b)

conversion

c)

clipping

d)

blending

e)

composition

31.

The process of shortening; blending one word with another

a)

shortening

b)

blending

c)

acronyms

d)

conversion

e)

composition

32.

These are examples of ……… (showbiz, mike, flu, pub, gents, phone, exam, fries, comfy)

a)

acronyms

b)

blending

c)

conversion

d)

clipping

e)

composition

33.

A minor word-formation process. two/more constituents, identical/similar = informality, familiarity.

a)

acronyms

b)

reduplication

c)

blending

d)

conversion

e)

composition

34.

These are examples of ………  (‘lubritection’, ‘swimsation’, ‘Merkozy’ vs. ‘Merkelzy’)

a)

shortening

b)

blending

c)

acronyms

d)

conversion

e)

composition

35.

These are examples of ………  (DIY, FBI, VIP, NATO, UNESCO)

a)

composition

b)

conversion

c)

blending

d)

shortening

e)

acronyms

36.

A minor word-formation process. New word created by suffix deletion.

a)

composition

b)

conversion

c)

shortening

d)

blending

e)

back-formation

37.

These are examples of ………(bottle-feed, to sleep-walk, to brain-wash, to day-dream, to window-shop, to chain-smoke)

a)

back-formation

b)

blending

c)

shortening

d)

conversion

e)

composition

38.

What is inflection?

a)

the form of a word after all inflectional affixes are removed (+ derivational & - inflectional affixes)

b)

the form of a word after all affixes are removed (- derivational & inflectional affixes)

c)

Is a word-formation process. It is a closed system, semantically regular and further from the root; it changes the word form - word-forms of a single lexeme, it does not derive new lexemes.

d)

Is a word-formation process. It is an open system, semantically irregular and closer to the root; it changes the meaning of the word - new lexemes are created

e)

a phraseological unit with transferred meaning

39.

What is derivation?

a)

Is a word-formation process. It is a closed system, semantically regular and further from the root; it changes the word form - word-forms of a single lexeme, it does not derive new lexemes

b)

Is a word-formation process. It is an open system, semantically irregular and closer to the root; it changes the meaning of the word - new lexemes are created.

c)

the form of a word after all affixes are removed (- derivational & inflectional affixes)

d)

the form of a word after all inflectional affixes are removed (+ derivational & - inflectional affixes)

e)

a phraseological unit with transferred meaning

40.

To native words belong…..

a)

study of meaning;

b)

most of prepositions, conjunctions, numera

c)

study of origin of different languages

d)

study of word-building

e)

all of them

41.

What is a Semasiology ?

a)

study of origin of languages

b)

study of sound

c)

study of meaning; semantics

d)

study of word-formation

e)

All answers are correct.

42.

Which branch of lexicology deals with the meaning of words and other linguistic units?

a)

word-formation         

b)

Semasiology

c)

Lexical Morphology

d)

Onomasiology

e)

All answers are correct.

43.

Semasiological approach…….

a)

considering different meanings of the word, determining interrelations between them, as well as discovering semantic relations between different words

b)

reverse of the semasiological approach; it starts from an object and consists in analyzing different words correlated with it

c)

the object which is given a name

d)

the one who gives a name to an object

e)

All answers are correct.

44.

Onomasiological approach

a)

considering different meanings of the word, determining interrelations between them, as well as discovering semantic relations between different words

b)

reverse of the semasiological approach; it starts from an object and consists in analyzing different words correlated with it

c)

the object which is given a name

d)

the one who gives a name to an object

e)

all anwers are correct

45.

Who is the nominatior?

a)

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;

b)

nouns, verbs,

c)

the one who gives a name to an object

d)

none of them

e)

all answers are correct

46.

the referent

a)

reverse of the semasiological approach; it starts from an object and consists in analyzing different words correlated with it

b)

the one who gives a name to an object

c)

the object which is given a name

d)

a new word from a syllable of the original word

e)

All answers are correct.

47.

The lexical meaning is

a)

individual, unique.

b)

general, standard

c)

individual, standard

d)

general, unique

e)

all answers are correct

48.

Grammatical meaning is

a)

general, standard

b)

individual, unique

c)

individual, standard

d)

general, unique

e)

all answers are correct

49.

The part-of-speech meaning is

a)

the one who gives a name to an object

b)

classification of lexical items into major word-classes and minor word-classes.

c)

reverse of the semasiological approach; it starts from an object and consists in analyzing different words correlated with it

d)

a new word from a syllable of the original word

e)

all answers are correct

50.

Who was written Pronouncing Dictionary by?

a)

by D.Jones

b)

by Samuel Johnson

c)

by A.V. Koonin

d)

by Noah Webster

e)

by R. Soule

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