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англ теория 2

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The variant of American English closest to British English was traditionally spoken in …

a)

Boston

b)

New Orleans

c)

San Francisco

d)

Los Angeles

e)

Chicago

2.

This word is pronounced the same way in British and American English.

a)

know

b)

bird

c)

god

d)

last

e)

car

3.

The youngest variant of English is …

a)

Australian

b)

Scottish

c)

Canadian

d)

American

e)

New Zealander

4.

The variant of English characterized by a very strong sound [r] is …

a)

Scottish

b)

Australian

c)

Canadian

d)

American

e)

Welsh

5.

Native speakers of English who are believed to add the word eh to the end of almost every phrase are …

a)

Canadians

b)

Australians

c)

Americans

d)

Irish

e)

Welsh

6.

The biggest city of this English-speaking country is populated mostly by non-native speakers of English.

a)

Canada

b)

Australia

c)

New Zealand

d)

Ireland

e)

Welsh

7.

The poet who wrote almost all his works in one of the local dialects of English was …

a)

Robert Burns

b)

Henry Longfellow

c)

Robert Burns

d)

Lord Byron

e)

Arthur Conan Doyle

8.

“I’m after doing something” is a grammatical construction typical of … English

a)

Irish

b)

Australian

c)

Welsh

d)

New Zelandic

e)

Canadian

9.

In one of the aboriginal languages the word kangaroo meant …

a)

I don’t understand

b)

I don’t know

c)

I don’t hear

d)

I don’t go

e)

I’m not here

10.

The English-speaking countries which speak British English are: Great Britain, Ireland, …, New Zealand

a)

Australia

b)

Wales

c)

South Africa

d)

India

e)

None

11.

Softening of [l] was typical of the inhabitants of …

a)

Wales

b)

Ireland

c)

Canada

d)

Australia

e)

New Zealand

12.

This navigator brought English to the Southern Hemisphere.

a)

James Cook

b)

Francis Drake

c)

Walter Raleigh

d)

Fernando Magellan

e)

Geoffrey Chaucer

13.

American English was first proclaimed to be an independent language by …

a)

Noah Webster

b)

William Caxton

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

George Washington

e)

Walter Raleigh

14.

The classical translation of the Bible into the English language is called …

a)

King James’ Bible

b)

King Henry’s Bible

c)

King George’s Bible

d)

Queen Elizabeth’s Bible

e)

King Edward’s Bible

15.

The treatment of a language as a system was characteristic of the grammarians of the …

a)

17th century

b)

16th century

c)

13th century

d)

19th century

e)

20th century

16.

“Grammaire générale de Port-Royal” was published in …

a)

1660

b)

1670

c)

1665

d)

1760

e)

1860

17.

Who laid the foundation of a new linguistic theory acknowledging the study of a system of a given language as such?

a)

Ferdinand de Saussure

b)

William Ryan

c)

John Stainbek

d)

Alfred Mansfield

e)

Mark Twain

18.

The English language is considered to be …

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetical

c)

Anabolic

d)

Symbol

e)

Anatomic

19.

Comparatively few grammatical inflections are one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetical

c)

Anabolic

d)

Symbol

e)

Anatomic

20.

A sparing use of sound alternations to denote grammatical forms is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetical

c)

Anabolic

d)

Symbol

e)

Anatomic

21.

A wide use of prepositions to denote relations between objects and to connect words in the sentence is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetical

c)

Anabolic

d)

Symbol

e)

Anatomic

22.

Prominent use of word order to denote grammatical relations: a more or less fixed word order is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetical

c)

Anabolic

d)

Symbol

e)

Anatomic

23.

… is the part of grammar, which treats of the forms of words.

a)

Morphology

b)

Metonymy

c)

Syntax

d)

Sentence

e)

Subject

24.

… is the part of grammar, which treats of forms of phrases and sentences.

a)

Syntax

b)

Morphology

c)

Metonymy

d)

Sentence

e)

Subject

25.

… is the smallest meaningful unit into which a word form may be divided.

a)

Morpheme

b)

Theorem

c)

Theory

d)

Moreover

e)

Sentence

26.

The form “writers” can be divided into … morphemes.

a)

3

b)

2

c)

1

d)

4

e)

5

27.

The morpheme writ- in “writers” expresses …

a)

the basic lexical meaning of the word

b)

the idea of agent performing the action

c)

number

d)

modality

e)

voice

28.

The morpheme -er in “writers” expresses …

a)

the idea of agent performing the action

b)

the basic lexical meaning of the word

c)

number

d)

modality

e)

voice

29.

The morpheme -s in “writers” expresses …

a)

number

b)

the basic lexical meaning of the word

c)

the idea of agent performing the action

d)

modality

e)

voice

30.

Two or more morphemes may sound the same but be basically different, that is they may be …

a)

homonyms

b)

antonyms

c)

synonyms

d)

allophones

e)

telephones

31.

What morpheme denotes the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs?

a)

-er

b)

-est

c)

-ed

d)

-s

e)

-ing

32.

The absence of a morpheme indicating a certain meaning is … morpheme.

a)

Zero

b)

Zed

c)

Zodiac

d)

Negative

e)

Negotiate

33.

… morphemes serve to build words.

a)

Derivation

b)

Inflection

c)

Infected

d)

Driving

e)

Informational

34.

… morphemes have no lexical meaning or function.

a)

Inflection

b)

Derivation

c)

Infected

d)

Driving

e)

Informational

35.

An inflection morpheme can acquire a lexical meaning in some special cases. These are cases of …

a)

lexicalization

b)

Lexus

c)

Lexis

d)

Plexus

e)

Plurality

36.

The term … is taken in a wide sense and applied to any morpheme coming after the root morpheme, whether it is derivative or inflectional.

a)

Suffix

b)

Prefix

c)

Inflection

d)

Ending

e)

Suffice

37.

The term … is applied to any morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own.

a)

Inflection

b)

Suffix

c)

Suffice

d)

Surface

e)

Infection

38.

… types of word-form derivation are those limited to changes in the body of the word, without having recourse to auxiliary words.

a)

Synthetic

b)

Analytical

c)

Syntagmatic

d)

Analysis

e)

Synchronic

39.

… types of word-form derivation are those implying the use of auxiliary words.

a)

Analytic

b)

Synthetic

c)

Syntagmatic

d)

Synchronic

e)

Analysis

40.

The ending … is used to form the plural of almost all nouns.

a)

-s (-es)

b)

-ed

c)

-ing

d)

-est

e)

-er

41.

The ending … is used to form the possessive case of nouns.

a)

-’s

b)

-s

c)

-ed

d)

-ing

e)

-est

42.

The ending … is used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs.

a)

-er

b)

-est

c)

-ed

d)

-ing

e)

-’s

43.

The ending … is used to form the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs.

a)

-est

b)

-s

c)

-es

d)

-’s

e)

-ed

44.

The ending … is used for the third person singular in Present Simple.

a)

-s (-es)

b)

-’s

c)

-est

d)

-ed

e)

-ness

45.

The ending … is used for the past tense of certain verbs.

a)

-ed

b)

-s

c)

-es

d)

-ing

e)

-est

46.

The ending … is used for the second participle of certain verbs.

a)

-ed

b)

-s

c)

-’s

d)

-est

e)

-ing

47.

This variant of English has three main subvariants: Eastern, Southern and General.

a)

American

b)

Welsh

c)

Australian

d)

Canadian

e)

New Zealander

48.

The ending … is used for the first participle and also for the gerund.

a)

-ed

b)

-s

c)

-’s

d)

-est

e)

-ing

49.

By … alternations (a type of word-form derivation)  we mean a way of expressing grammatical categories which consist in changing  a sound inside the root.

a)

Sound

b)

Prefix

c)

Morpheme

d)

Suffix

e)

Syntax

50.

… types of word-form derivation consist in using a word (devoid of any lexical meaning of its own) to express some grammatical category of another word.

a)

Analytical

b)

Synthetic

c)

Syntagmatic

d)

Synchronic

e)

Analysis

51.

Find the sentence  in which the verb “have” has its lexical meaning.

a)

He has three children.

b)

He has invited me to the party.

c)

He has been waiting for me for three hours.

d)

He had come to the time I left.

e)

He had been working there since 1995.

52.

Find the sentence in which the verb “do” has its lexical meaning.

a)

I do my home work every day.

b)

I do not make my home work.

c)

I make my hairdo twice a month.

d)

Do I dominate you?

e)

Do I dominate you?

53.

By … (type of word-form derivation) we mean building a form of a word from an altogether different stem.

a)

Suppletive formations

b)

Analytical types

c)

Synthetic types

d)

Scrambling

e)

Sound alternations

54.

… is a type of word differing from other types in some grammatical point or points.

a)

Part of speech

b)

Part of a body

c)

Party

d)

Paradigm

e)

Paralell

55.

… is a type of word different from all other types in that it alone has the grammatical category of tense.

a)

The Verb

b)

The Noun

c)

The Adjective

d)

The Pronoun

e)

The Adverb

56.

Find the principles of the parts of speech classifications

a)

Meaning, form, function

b)

Measure, furniture, fiction

c)

Moisturizer, flexion, functional

d)

Meaningless, formless, functionless

e)

Miniature, furniture, fiction

57.

The meaning of the Noun is …

a)

thingness

b)

process

c)

property

d)

connection

e)

unknown

58.

The meaning of the Verb is …

a)

thingness

b)

process

c)

property

d)

connection

e)

unknown

59.

The adjective expresses …

a)

thingness

b)

process

c)

property

d)

connection

e)

unknown

60.

: … denote either number or place in a sentence.

a)

Numerals

b)

Nouns

c)

Verbs

d)

Pronouns

e)

Conjunctions