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лексикология

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

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Class
Date
1.

«Kick the bucket» is euphemistic word for_____

a)

Beg

b)

Apologize

c)

Play

d)

Death

e)

Question

2.

One of the best-known Southern dialects is ____

a)

Cockney

b)

Midland

c)

American

d)

RP

e)

North

3.

_______ is a variety of a language which prevails in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar

a)

A morpheme

b)

A slang

c)

A term

d)

A metaphor

e)

A dialect

4.

The science of dictionary-compiling is called ___

a)

Lexic

b)

Lexicology

c)

Lexicography

d)

Morphology

e)

Stylistics

5.

How many main groups of dialects are there in GB?

a)

6

b)

4

c)

3

d)

5

e)

7

6.

_______ are used in everyday conversational speech both by cultivated and uneducated people of all age groups.

a)

Colloquial words

b)

Professional words

c)

Literary words

d)

Slang words

e)

Historical words

7.

What is American equivalent of the word “sweets”?

a)

Cookies

b)

Candies

c)

Biscuits

d)

Mints

e)

Lollipops

8.

_______are words which are no longer used in everyday speech, which have been ousted by their synonyms.

a)

Archaisms

b)

Phraseologisms

c)

Neologisms

d)

Homonyms

e)

Antonyms

9.

________are word-groups that cannot be made in the process of speech they exist in the language as ready-made units.

a)

Archaisms

b)

Homonyms

c)

Phraseologisms

d)

Neologisms

e)

Antonyms

10.

To native words belong __________

a)

Some adjectives

b)

Study of meaning

c)

Study of word-building

d)

All of them

e)

Most of prepositions

11.

What is a Semasiology?

a)

Study of meaning; semantics

b)

Study of sound

c)

Study of origin of language

d)

Study of word-formation

e)

Study of grammatical meaning

12.

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

a)

Lexical morphology

b)

Onomasiology

c)

Word-formation

d)

Morphology

e)

Semasiology

13.

Semasiological approach __________

a)

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

b)

The object which is given a name

c)

The one who gives a name to an object

d)

The process of giving instructions

e)

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

14.

The lexical meaning is______

a)

Individual, unique.

b)

Individual, standard

c)

General, standard

d)

General, unique

e)

Standard, unique

15.

Grammatical meaning is_________

a)

General, standard.

b)

Individual, standard

c)

Individual, unique

d)

General, unique

e)

Standard, unique

16.

The part-of-speech meaning is_______

a)

A new word from a syllable of the original word

b)

All answers are correct.

c)

None is correct

d)

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

e)

The one who gives a name to an object

17.

What are the three constituent parts (subsystems) of a language system?

a)

The phonological system, the lexical system and the vocabulary system

b)

The phonological system, the phonetical system and the grammatical system

c)

The morphological and syntactical system, the lexical system and the grammatical system

d)

Only phonological system

e)

The phonological system, the lexical system and the grammatical system

18.

The phonological system –

a)

Determines the material (phonetically) appearance of its significative (i.e., meaningful) units.

b)

Is the whole set of naming means of language, that is, the vocabulary of words and stable word groups.

c)

Is the whole set of regularities, i.e., the set of rules (laws) determining the formation of utterances (i.e., actualized in speech sentences) in the process of discourse.

d)

Determines the material (phonetically) appearance of its significative (i.e., meaningless) units.

e)

Isn’t the whole set of naming means of language, that is, the vocabulary of words and stable word groups.

19.

The lexical system__________

a)

determines the material (phonetically) appearance of its significative (i.e., meaningful) units.

b)

is the whole set of regularities, i.e., the set of rules (laws) determining the formation of utterances (i.e., actualized in speech sentences) in the process of discourse.

c)

is the whole set of naming means of language, that is, the vocabulary of words and stable word groups.

d)

isn’t the whole set of naming means of language, that is, the vocabulary of words and stable word groups.

e)

isn’t the whole set of regularities, i.e., the set of rules (laws) determining the formation of utterances (i.e., actualized in speech sentences) in the process of discourse.

20.

The grammatical system___________

a)

is the whole set of regularities, i.e., the set of rules (laws) determining the formation of utterances (i.e., actualized in speech sentences) in the process of discourse.

b)

is studied by lexicology

c)

is studied by phonology

d)

is studied by all linguistic discipline.

e)

is studied by lexicography

21.

Linguistic unit can enter into relations of two different kinds. The are___________

a)

predicative and attributive

b)

semantic and functional

c)

semantic, formal and functional

d)

formal and informal

e)

Paragmatical and Syntagmatical

22.

Two or more words identical in sound-form but different in meaning,

a)

antonyms

b)

paroxysm

c)

homonyms

d)

synonyms

e)

phraseologisms

23.

There are three aspects of homonyms

a)

sound-form, graphic-form and meaning

b)

grammatical, lexical, graphic

c)

semantic, lexical, lexico-grammatical

d)

lexical, lexico-grammatical, grammatical

e)

graphic-form and meaning

24.

Homonyms are

a)

words identical both in spelling and in sound-form but different in meaning

b)

words identical both in meaning and in spelling

c)

words different in sound.

d)

words identical in meaning but different in sound-form

e)

words different in meaning but identical in sound-form

25.

Homophones _______

a)

are same spelling, different pronunciation and different meanings.

b)

words identical both in meaning and in spelling

c)

lexical, lexico-grammatical, graphic

d)

words identical in spelling but different in sound-form

e)

words identical in sound-form but different in spelling

26.

Homographs are_______

a)

All answers are correct.

b)

words sound alike

c)

words identical both in spelling and in sound-form but different in meaning

d)

words identical in spelling but different in sound-form.

e)

None is correct

27.

Homonyms________

a)

flat-flat; light-light; spring-spring;

b)

perform-reform; right-wright; day-night

c)

lead-lead; write-read; bow-bow

d)

spring-summer; steel-steal; sun-moon

e)

jeans-genes, know-now, but-bat

28.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which deals with _____

a)

lexical units and the vocabulary of a language

b)

the study of the nature, functions and structure of stylistic devices and with the investigation of each style of language

c)

various means of expressing grammatical relations between words and with patterns after which words are combined into word-groups and sentences

d)

the outer sound form of the word

e)

only grammatical structure

29.

The term lexicology comes from

a)

a Latin word

b)

a French word

c)

a Greek word

d)

a German word

e)

an English word

30.

The object of lexicology is ________

a)

lexical units

b)

phonemes

c)

methods of lexical units’ investigation

d)

phonetical units

e)

morphological structure

31.

LEXIS means______

a)

Units

b)

phrase

c)

learning

d)

vocabulary

e)

study

32.

Lexicology has close ties with__________

a)

phonetics and grammar

b)

phonetics, grammar, history of a language, stylistics and sociolinguistics

c)

literature, history and sociology

d)

philosophy and history

e)

grammar and stylistics

33.

What is special Lexicology?

a)

It is the lexicology of a particular language

b)

It is the lexicology of any language

c)

the structural and semantic entity of language units within the language system

d)

the study of vocabulary at a certain time of its development

e)

the study of grammar structure

34.

The word has ______

a)

phonological, semantic, syntactic aspects

b)

phonological and semantic aspects

c)

phonological and syntactic aspects

d)

phonological

e)

only semantic aspects

35.

By external structure of the word we mean ___________

a)

its meaning

b)

Paragmatical approach

c)

Syntagmatical approach

d)

phonological structure

e)

its morphological structure

36.

Internal structure of the word is

a)

its semantic structure

b)

its morphological structure

c)

its sound-form

d)

a grammar form

e)

phonological structure

37.

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

a)

Semasiology

b)

Lexical Morphology

c)

Onomasiology

d)

Phonology

e)

Stylistics

38.

Choose the antonym the words "to lose".

a)

to explain

b)

to complete

c)

to win

d)

to play

e)

to leave

39.

Choose the definition to the word "strange"

a)

not known before; unfamiliar

b)

a very interesting fact

c)

a very important thing

d)

something very amusing and funny

e)

something awful

40.

Choose the antonym the word "noise"

a)

talk

b)

cheer

c)

wait

d)

sail

e)

silence

41.

Choose the word with the meaning "послевоенный"

a)

postwar

b)

prewar

c)

diswar

d)

underwar

e)

rewar

42.

Choose the antonym the word "allow"

a)

rub

b)

forbid

c)

replay

d)

burn

e)

forget

43.

Lexicology is ____________

a)

the study of words

b)

the study of origin of language and words

c)

the study of mental processes and language

d)

the study of relations between the word and its referent

e)

the study of sounds

44.

The fact that words are composed of component morphemes, which are permanently linked together, reflects_________.

a)

the formal unity of the word

b)

the semantic unity of the word

c)

external structure of the word

d)

internal structure of the word

e)

grammar structure

45.

Lexicology deals with ________

a)

morphemes

b)

grammatical meaning

c)

phonetic form

d)

properties of words

e)

phraseologisms

46.

What’s the other way of naming the descriptive lexicology?

a)

synchronic lexicology

b)

morphology

c)

semasiology

d)

etymology

e)

phonology

47.

The system formed by the sum of all the words and word equivalents is called:

a)

Grammar

b)

thematic group

c)

semantic grouping

d)

phraseological units

e)

vocabulary

48.

How is the study of words and vocabulary irrespective of the specific features of any particular language is called?

a)

general lexicology

b)

etymology

c)

historical lexicology

d)

diachronic lexicology

e)

synchronic lexicology

49.

Which branch of linguistics deals with the origin and history of words?

a)

lexicography

b)

etymology

c)

phonology

d)

morphology

e)

semasiology

50.

How do we call the historical lexicology in other words?

a)

diachronic lexicology

b)

synchronic lexicology

c)

morphology

d)

philological study

e)

etymology

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