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англ теория 1

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Traditionally the history of the English language is divided into … periods.

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

9

e)

8

2.

The shift of the Germanic consonants which made them differ from consonants in other Indo-European languages is called … .

a)

Grimm’s Law

b)

Great Vowel Shift

c)

Boyle-Marriot's Law

d)

fricative plosion

e)

voiceless level

3.

The language on the list which is not Germanic is … .

a)

Gaelic

b)

Icelandic

c)

Gothic

d)

Afrikaans

e)

English

4.

The Germanic language which is not spoken any longer is … .

a)

Frankish

b)

Faroese

c)

Frisian

d)

Flemish

e)

Russian

5.

The Germanic language which has borrowed a lot of words from Hebrew and Slavic languages is … .

a)

Yiddish

b)

Flemish

c)

Frisian

d)

Gothic

e)

None

6.

The Germanic language which has no historical ties with the Netherlands is …

a)

Gothic

b)

Dutch

c)

Afrikaans

d)

Flemish

e)

None

7.

The word saga deals with … folklore.

a)

Scandinavian

b)

English

c)

Gothic

d)

German

e)

Indian

8.

“Younger Edda” and “Older Edda” is a collection of … .

a)

sagas

b)

fairy-tales

c)

poems

d)

religious hymns

e)

Bible

9.

The Germanic language which is not spoken in Europe is … .

a)

Icelandic

b)

German

c)

Flemish

d)

Frisian

e)

Ukrainian

10.

The language that borrowed half of its vocabulary from French is… .

a)

English

b)

German

c)

Dutch

d)

Yiddish

e)

Icelandic

11.

1,500 years ago the closest language to Old English was … .

a)

German Frisian

b)

Faroese

c)

Dutch

d)

German

e)

Icelandic

12.

The inhabitants of this European country are called in English with the help of the same word that is used by another Germanic nation to name itself.

a)

Holland

b)

Sweden

c)

Germany

d)

Norway

e)

Iceland

13.

Old English had a lot of borrowings from … .

a)

Danish

b)

Norwegian

c)

Swedish

d)

Faroese

e)

Icelandic

14.

Old English noun had … cases.

a)

4

b)

2

c)

6

d)

8

e)

5

15.

Old English had … genders.

a)

3

b)

2

c)

4

d)

5

e)

0

16.

The Letter ჳ in Old English corresponded to the sound … .

a)

[g]

b)

[z]

c)

[dჳ]

d)

[ð]

e)

[s]

17.

The runic alphabet avoided … .

a)

curved lines

b)

straight lines

c)

short lines

d)

long lines

e)

angled lines

18.

The Germanic epic poem which was written in Old English is called … .

a)

Beowulf

b)

Older Edda

c)

Song of Hildebrandt

d)

Song of Hiawatha

e)

Romeo and Juliet

19.

Runes were not written on … .

a)

paper

b)

wood

c)

stone

d)

bone

e)

magazine

20.

There were … Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain.

a)

7

b)

5

c)

3

d)

9

e)

4

21.

The verb system in Old English had … verbals.

a)

3

b)

2

c)

4

d)

5

e)

0

22.

Old English noun had … numbers.

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

e)

6

23.

Weak verbs in Old English used to fall into … classes.

a)

3

b)

2

c)

4

d)

5

e)

6

24.

This case never existed in Old English.

a)

Possessive

b)

Instrumental

c)

Dative

d)

Genitive

e)

Nominative

25.

This historic event marked the transition from Old English to Middle English.

a)

the Norman conquest

b)

the departure of the Romans

c)

Reformation

d)

Restoration

e)

Renovation

26.

Typologically, Old English was a/an … language.

a)

synthetic

b)

analytical

c)

root

d)

artificial

e)

geuine

27.

Word stress in Old English was normally … .

a)

fixed

b)

on the prefix

c)

free

d)

on the root syllable

e)

on the first syllable

28.

The law that illustrates such changes in modern consonants as was — were, raise — rear, wife — wives is … .

a)

Verner’s Law

b)

Grimm’s Law

c)

3rd Newton’s Law

d)

Great Vowel Shift

e)

None

29.

The phonetic phenomenon that can be observed in the pairs of words such as sandian — sendan, namnian — nemnan is … .

a)

i-mutation

b)

o-mutation

c)

u-mutation

d)

a-mutation

e)

e-mutation

30.

The actual meaning of the word Oxford is … .

a)

a stretch of shallow water for oxen to cross

b)

a stretch of shallow water on the river

c)

shallow water

d)

a stretch of broad shallow water for oxen to cross

e)

a stretch of shallow water for oxen to back

31.

The word Thursday comes from the name of … .

a)

Germanic god

b)

a planet in the Solar system

c)

a certain type of a tree growing in the Rhine Valley

d)

a Roman feast

e)

a Gaelic feast

32.

The word an egg is of the … origin.

a)

Scandinavian

b)

Latin

c)

French

d)

Anglo-Saxon

e)

Dutch

33.

The Normans were originally from … .

a)

Scandinavia

b)

France

c)

Northern Ireland

d)

Iberian peninsula

e)

Iceland

34.

According to its vocabulary English is partly a Germanic and partly a … language.

a)

Romanic

b)

Celtic

c)

Slavonic

d)

Semitic

e)

Scandinavian

35.

The word which seems odd on the list below is … .

a)

beef

b)

pig

c)

ram

d)

swine

e)

none

36.

The word which seems odd on the list below is … .

a)

question

b)

moon

c)

father

d)

song

e)

none

37.

The greatest author of the Middle English period is … .

a)

Geoffrey Chaucer

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Bob Dylan

e)

Arthur Conan Doyle

38.

Whan that April in his shoures soote is the beginning of … .

a)

Canterbury Tales

b)

Romeo and Juliet

c)

Utopia

d)

Hamlet

e)

Beowulf

39.

The word which seems odd on the list below is … .

a)

king

b)

count

c)

prince

d)

baron

e)

none

40.

Among the main dialect groups in the English language of the 14th century there was no such group as … .

a)

Western

b)

Northern

c)

Southern

d)

Midland

e)

North-western

41.

English was first used in the English Parliament in … .

a)

11th century

b)

12th century

c)

13th century

d)

14th century

e)

15th century

42.

The history of Middle English started in the battle of … .

a)

Hastings

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Marne

d)

Stalingrad

e)

Waterloo

43.

By the end of the Middle English period English noun had … cases

a)

2

b)

4

c)

3

d)

5

e)

0

44.

The definite article in English derived from … pronouns

a)

demonstrative

b)

possessive

c)

interrogative

d)

object

e)

indefinite

45.

The phonetic phenomenon which happened during the Middle English period and made the English system of spelling differ a lot from the real pronunciation is called … .

a)

the Great Vowel Shift

b)

Grimm’s Law

c)

Verner’s Law

d)

levelling of the endings

e)

None

46.

English 3rd person plural personal pronoun they is a … borrowing.

a)

Scandinavian

b)

French

c)

Celtic

d)

Russian

e)

Ukranian

47.

The word which seems odd on the list below is… .

a)

culture

b)

atom

c)

tragedy

d)

dialogue

e)

none

48.

The word which seems odd on the list below is … .

a)

skipper

b)

armada

c)

embargo

d)

barricade

e)

all of them

49.

Teaching in England in the first centuries after the Norman conquest was mostly conducted in … .

a)

French

b)

English

c)

Latin

d)

Greek

e)

Dutch

50.

The first book printed in English was … .

a)

Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye

b)

Beowulf

c)

The Canterbury Tales

d)

the Bible

e)

Romeo and Juliet

51.

The Middle English word ich corresponded to the modern … .

a)

I

b)

inch

c)

ice

d)

ache

e)

ash

52.

William Tyndale is famous for his … .

a)

translation of the Bible

b)

dictionary

c)

poetry

d)

English grammar

e)

tales

53.

The following sound first appeared in Middle English.

a)

[dg]

b)

[j]

c)

[g]

d)

[f]

e)

[gh]

54.

During the Middle English period the short sound [u] changed into the sound … .

a)

[^]

b)

[u:]

c)

[a:]

d)

[i:]

e)

[:u]

55.

The first book printed in English appeared in the year of …

a)

1475

b)

1066

c)

1690

d)

1490

e)

1495

56.

By the end of the Middle English period English adjective had … cases

a)

no

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

e)

5

57.

A group of dialects situated in the centre of England in the Middle English period has a name … dialects

a)

Midland

b)

Central

c)

Main

d)

Capital

e)

Renewed

58.

According to some scholars a new part of speech that appeared in English during ME period was …

a)

the article

b)

verb

c)

object

d)

prepositions

e)

adverb

59.

The variant of English which has some differences in spelling compared with British English is … .

a)

American

b)

Australian

c)

New Zealander

d)

South African

e)

Indian

60.

They speak this variant of English in New South Wales.

a)

Australian

b)

Welsh

c)

Canadian

d)

Americaan

e)

New Zealander

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