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Теория перевода 200-250

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

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1.

Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence: ‘On your marks! Get set!’ Bang went Mr.Philbrick’s revolver. Off trotted the boys on another race.

a)

stylistically-marked vocabulary

b)

emphatic ‘do’

c)

lexical intensifiers

d)

lexical repetition

e)

inversion

2.

Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence: “I think it was then she recognized me.”

a)

emphatic ‘it’

b)

stylistically-marked vocabulary

c)

inversion

d)

lexical repetition

e)

contaminated speech

3.

Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence:

And now I am going to play the organ”, said Beste-Chetwynde. “After all, my mother does pay five guineas a term extra for me to learn.”

a)

inversion

b)

lexical repetition

c)

emphatic ‘do’

d)

transposition

e)

stylistically-marked vocabulary

4.

Choose the most appropriate variant of translating the sentence: “A book fell off the shelf.

a)

Книга упала с полки.

b)

Одна из многих книг упала с полки.

c)

С полки падала книга.

d)

С полки упала книга.

e)

Упала книга с полки.

5.

There exist various classifications of grammatical transformations, yet most frequently specialists speak about four groups of such transformations. What are they?

a)

transcription, transliteration, concretization, generalization

b)

addition, omission, replacement, transposition

c)

lexical, grammatical, stylistic and syntactical

d)

addition, omission, word-for-word translation, descriptive translation

e)

generalization, concretization, addition, omission

6.

Change in the order of linguistic elements, such as words, phrases, clauses and sentences is .

a)

transposition

b)

omission

c)

replacement

d)

addition

e)

descriptive translation

7.

Omissions are used to .

a)

make a greater impression on the reader

b)

ensure a greater degree of compression

c)

compensate for the lost expressiveness

d)

connect two parts of the sentence

e)

to add new important information into the text

8.

What kind of transformation is called the reverse of addition?

a)

replacement

b)

transposition

c)

omission

d)

concretization

e)

generalization

9.

A very common grammatical transformation which consists in the replacement of a simple sentence by a complex one and vice versa. What is the name of this transformation?

a)

concretization

b)

transposition

c)

replacement of sentence types

d)

replacement of sentence elements

e)

omission

10.

A very common grammatical transformation which consists in the replacement of coordinate connection by subordination and vice versa is called

          .

a)

replacement of word-forms

b)

replacement of parts of speech

c)

replacement of sentence elements

d)

replacement of sentence types

e)

replacement of the type of syntactic relations

11.

Replacements as a type of grammatical transformations can affect practically all types of linguistic units. Some of them are listed below. Find an outsider.

a)

allomorphs

b)

word-forms

c)

parts of speech

d)

sentence types

e)

sentence elements

12.

Define the type of grammatical transformation. SL: ‘a novel about the lives of common people’

TL: роман о жизни простых людей/ қарапайым халықтың өмірі туралы роман.

a)

replacement of word-forms

b)

replacement of parts of speech

c)

replacement of sentence types

d)

replacement of sentence elements

e)

replacement of the type of syntactic relations

13.

SL: ‘I heard my mother go out and close the door.’ TL: Я услышал, как мама вышла из комнаты и закрыла двери. The translation technique used in the given example is     .

a)

compression

b)

sentence integration

c)

sentence division

d)

replacement of parts of speech

e)

stylistic transformations

14.

A replacement of two simple sentences by one complex or compound and vice versa is called  .

a)

replacement of word-forms

b)

replacement of sentence types

c)

replacement of parts of speech

d)

replacement of sentence elements

e)

replacement of the type of syntactic relations

15.

Sentence division and integration are closely interrelated with the grammatical transformation known as replacement. In fact, these two techniques are subtypes of the           .

a)

replacement of word-forms

b)

replacement of parts of speech

c)

replacement of sentence types

d)

replacement of sentence elements

e)

replacement of the type of syntactic relations

16.

Coordination and subordination are   .

a)

different types of subjects in a sentence.

b)

homogeneous parts of the sentence.

c)

two major types of compound sentences.

d)

two major types of syntactic relations.

e)

two major types of complex sentences.

17.

The English ‘gun license’ may be rendered into Russian and Kazakh as ‘удостоверение на право ношения оружия'/ ‘қару ұстау құқығына куəлік’.

In this example we deal with the transformation called        .

a)

addition

b)

compression

c)

antonymic translation

d)

omission

e)

transposition

18.

            is reducing the redundancy of the text by omitting words which can be easily restored from the context.

a)

Addition

b)

Modulation

c)

Compression

d)

Transposition

e)

Inversion

19.

Define the type of translation technique used in the English- Russian/Kazakh translation.

SL: The treaty was pronounced null and void. TL(Ru): Договор был признан недействительным. TL(Kz): Келісімшарт жарамсыз деп танылды.

a)

omission

b)

addition

c)

descriptive translation

d)

generalization

e)

concretization

20.

Define the transformation:

oil talks – переговоры по вопросу о нефти / мұнай бойынша келіссөздер.

a)

omission

b)

addition

c)

replacement of parts of speech

d)

semantic development

e)

compensation

21.

SL: ‘So I paid my check and all. Then I left the bar and went where the telephones were.’

TL(Kz): ‘Ақшасын төлеп, ойын автоматтарына бардым’.

TL(Ru): ‘Я расплатился и пошел к автоматам.’

In the given example the translator employed            .

a)

replacement of word-forms

b)

transposition

c)

replacement of the type of syntactic relations

d)

omission

e)

addition

22.

Name the transformation. SL: ‘other philosophies

TL: другие философские теории / басқа философиялық теориялар.

a)

descriptive translation

b)

addition

c)

replacement of sentence elements

d)

replacement of syntactic relations

e)

transposition

23.

Define the type of translation technique used in the translation from English:

SL: 125 passengers and 5 crew

TL(Kz): 125 жолаушы мен 5 экипаж мүшесі

TL(Ru) 125 пассажиров и 5 членов экипажа

a)

descriptive translation

b)

omission

c)

addition

d)

generalization

e)

concretization

24.

Which is the most common formula for the English word-order?

a)

subject – object – predicate

b)

there is no formula at all as the English word-order is not fixed

c)

object – predicate – subject

d)

subject – determiner - predicate

e)

subject – predicate – object

25.

What syntactic unit is considered to be the starting point in describing an idea or situation?

a)

predicate

b)

attribute

c)

adverbial modifier

d)

subject

e)

object

26.

A change in the word-order of the sentence is known as                            .

a)

reversion

b)

inversion

c)

conversion

d)

aversion

e)

immersion

27.

In theory of translation ‘rheme’ is the term applied to specify                             .

a)

the old information

b)

a group of grammatical transformations

c)

the general idea of the utterance

d)

the translator’s own commentaries

e)

the new information

28.

The location of theme and rheme in Russian and English                        .

a)

is identical

b)

is not important for the translator

c)

is different

d)

depends on the macro-context

e)

is difficult to define

29.

In Russian the new information (rheme) is usually placed                           .

a)

at the beginning of the sentence

b)

in the middle of the sentence

c)

at the end or in the middle of the sentence

d)

at the end of the sentence

e)

all the variants are right

30.

In translation theory ‘theme’ is the term applied to specify   .

a)

the new information

b)

the new information

c)

the old information

d)

a group of grammatical transformations

e)

the translator’s own commentaries

31.

Some information already known or supposed to be known to the receiver from the previous context is                                                       .

a)

theme

b)

rheme

c)

monorheme

d)

compression

e)

anadiplosis

32.

The part of the sentence which contains completely new information is called       .

a)

theme

b)

monorheme

c)

dirheme

d)

monotheme

e)

rheme

33.

Taking into account ‘theme-rheme’ relations, the sentence ‘A boy came in’ should be translated into Russian as .

a)

Мальчик вошел.

b)

Мальчик вошел в комнату.

c)

Некто вошел в комнату.

d)

Мальчик вышел.

e)

Вошел мальчик.

34.

Rheme in the Russian sentence          .

a)

usually takes the initial position.

b)

usually takes the medial position.

c)

usually takes the final position.

d)

never takes the initial position.

e)

can take any position.

35.

In English        can often mark the rheme/theme of the sentence.

a)

grammatical endings

b)

articles

c)

gerunds

d)

predicates

e)

ellipsis

36.

Find the rheme in the sentence:

‘A lecture followed on the inadequacies of modern policemen and immorality of modern youth’.

a)

followed

b)

inadequacies

c)

a lecture

d)

immorality

e)

modern youth

37.

Find the rheme in the sentence: В нашу страну пришла перестройка.

a)

в нашу страну

b)

пришла

c)

нашу

d)

перестройка

e)

в нашу

38.

In the English language there are a number of grammatical forms that are not always available in the target language. If no grammatical forms are available in the target language, the translator must           .

a)

omit the difficult structure.

b)

look for lexical means to render the same semantic content.

c)

use transposition.

d)

translate it at his/her own discretion and write a commentary.

e)

use antonymic translation.

39.

Say which of the following English grammatical phenomena do/does not have direct analogues in the Russian language:

a)

Adverbial modifier of time

b)

Articles

c)

Conjunction ‘though’

d)

Grammatical meaning of plurality

e)

Inflectional affixes

40.

Say which of the following meanings is not typical for the English article:

a)

the meaning close to that of the stative verbs

b)

the meaning of definiteness

c)

the meaning ‘some, certain’

d)

the meaning close to that of the pronoun ‘one’

e)

the same meaning as that of the numeral ‘one’

41.

In the process of translation articles are usually       (unless they have some special role in the sentence or some additional meaning).

a)

translated with the help of possessive pronouns

b)

translated with the help of personal pronouns

c)

omitted

d)

translated with the help of numerals

e)

all variants are true

42.

A Mr.Brown’ should be rendered into Russian as     .

a)

Мистер Браун

b)

Господин Браун

c)

Мистер Коричневый

d)

Некий Мистер Браун

e)

Семья Браун

43.

According to Professor Galperin the definite article has        meanings.

a)

11

b)

7

c)

3

d)

1

e)

9

44.

According to Professor Galperin the indefinite article has       

meanings.

a)

11

b)

2

c)

5

d)

1

e)

1

45.

Any translator should bear in mind that the noun category of number in English and Russian    .

a)

is fully identical

b)

differs in every point

c)

is not always identical

d)

is presented only by Singularia Tantum and Pluralia Tantum

e)

is expressed by different personal pronouns

46.

Find the example of Singularia Tantum among the following words:

a)

a copper

b)

scissors

c)

people

d)

ink

e)

cherries

47.

Find the example of Singularia Tantum among the following words:

a)

milk

b)

a can

c)

people

d)

a people

e)

pants

48.

Find the example of Pluralia Tantum among the following words:

a)

a tin

b)

tin

c)

a people

d)

knowledge

e)

people

49.

What is the English for ‘корь/ қызылша’?

a)

oats

b)

measle

c)

measles

d)

quinsy

e)

cancer

50.

Complete the phrase: forty one          .

a)

books

b)

trousers

c)

pants

d)

chair

e)

data