partially assimilated words
loan words
33. What do we call a notion or an actually existing individual thing to which
reference is made?
denotatum (referent)
semantic component
meaning
connotation
34. What is the name of the area of lexicology specializing in the semantic studies of the word?
It is called semantics.
It is called phraseology.
It is called grammar.
It is called sociolinguistics.
35. Words denoting notions that have disappeared out of modern life are called…
historisms
obsolete
neologisms
archaisms /obsolescent
36. ...is a speech unit used for the purposes of human communication, materially representing a group of sounds, possessing a meaning, susceptible to grammatical employment and characterized by formal and semantic unity.
a) The word
b) The sentence
c) The word combination
d) The meaning
37. ...is part of General Linguistics, it is concerned with the study of vocabulary irrespective of the specific features of any particular language.
a) General Lexicology
b) Special Lexicology
c) Historical Lexicology
d) Comparative Lexicology
38. ...is the Lexicology of a particular language, i.e. the study and description of its vocabulary and units, primarily words as the main units of language.
a) Special Lexicology
b) General Lexicology
c) Historical Lexicology
d) Comparative Lexicology
39. Which of the following is an example of compounding?
a) bookshelf
b) spork
c) pepsi
d) house
40. According to the ... approach, the vocabulary is studied at the given stage of its development.
a) synchronic
b) diachronic
c) comparative
d) contrasting
HISTORY OF ENGLISH
1. Traditionally the history of the English language is divided into … periods.
а) 3 b) 5 c) 7 d) 9
2. The shift of the Germanic consonants which made them differ from consonants in other Indo-European languages is called ….
а) Great Vowel Shift b) Grimm’s Law c) Boyle-Marriot's Law d) fricative plosion
3. The language on the list which is not Germanic is ….
а) Gothic b) Icelandic c) Gaelic d) Afrikaans
4. The Germanic language which is not spoken any longer is ….
а) Frankish b) Faroese c) Frisian d) Flemish
5. The Germanic language which has borrowed a lot of words from Hebrew and Slavic languages is ….
а) Frisian b) Flemish c) Yiddish d) Gothic
6. The Germanic language which has no historical ties with the Netherlands is …
а) Dutch b) Gothic c) Afrikaans d) Flemish
7. The word saga deals with … folklore.
а) German b) English c) Gothic d) Scandinavian
8. “Younger Edda” and “Older Edda” is a collection of ….
а) poems b) fairy-tales c) sagas d) religious hymns
9. The Germanic tribe that gave the name to one of the Spanish provinces was ….
а) Franks b) Goths c) Vandals d) Jutes
10. The Germanic language which is not spoken in Europe is ….
а) Frisian b) German c) Flemish d) Icelandic
11. The language which had been the literary language of Norway till the beginning of the 20th century was ….
а) Norwegian b) Danish c) Latin d) English
12. The language that borrowed half of its vocabulary from French is….
а) German b) English c) Dutch d) Yiddish
13. The German language which does not employ the Latin alphabet is ….
а) Flemish b) Faroese c) Afrikaans d) Yiddish
14. The East Gothic language was spoken in today's ….
а) Greece b) Macedonia c) Crimea d) Caucasus
15. Yiddish is basically a dialect of ….
а) Dutch b) Gothic c) German d) English
16. 1,500 years ago the closest language to Old English was ….
а) German b) Faroese c) Dutch d) Frisian
17. This language has two main variants called High … and Low ….
а) Frisian b) Dutch c) German d) Swedish
18. The Scandinavian language which is one of the two state languages in Finland is ….
а) Icelandic b) Faroese c) Swedish d) Danish
19. This European country was named after one of the Germanic tribes.
а) France b) Italy c) Spain d) Portugal
20. 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.
а) Germany b) Sweden c) Holland d) Norway
21. Old English had a lot of borrowings from ….
а) Norwegian b) Danish c) Swedish d) Faroese
22. Old English noun had … cases.
а) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8 3.
23. Old English had … genders.
а) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
24. The Letter ჳ in Old English corresponded to the sound ….
а) [dჳ] b) [z] c) [g] d) [ð]
25. The runic alphabet avoided ….
а) straight lines b) curved lines c) short lines d) long lines
26. The Germanic epic poem which was written in Old English is called ….
а) Song of Hildebrandt b) Older Edda c) Beowulf d) Song of Hiawatha
27. Runes were not written on ….
а) paper b) wood c) stone d) bone
28. There were … Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain. а) 3 b) 5 c) 7 d) 9
29. The verb system in Old English had … verbals.
а) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
30. Old English noun had … numbers.
а) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
31. Weak verbs in Old English used to fall into … classes.
а) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
32. This case never existed in Old English.
а) Dative b) Instrumental c) Possessive d) Genitive
33. This historic event marked the transition from Old English to Middle English.
а) the departure of the Romans b) the Norman conquest c) Reformation d) Restoration
34. Typologically, Old English was a/an … language.
а) root b) analytical c) synthetic d) artificial
35. Word stress in Old English was normally ….
а) on the prefix b) fixed c) free d) on the root syllable
36. The law that illustrates such changes in modern consonants as was — were, raise — rear, wife — wives is ….
а) 3rd Newton’s Law b) Grimm’s Law c) Verner’s Law d) Great Vowel Shift
37. The phonetic phenomenon that can be observed in the pairs of words such as sandian — sendan, namnian — nemnan is ….
а) a-mutation b) o-mutation c) u-mutation d) i-mutation
38. The actual meaning of the word Oxford is ….
а) shallow water b) a stretch of shallow water on the river c) a stretch of shallow water for oxen to cross d) a stretch of broad shallow water for oxen to cross
39. The word Thursday comes from the name of ….
а) 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
40. The word an egg is of the … origin.
а) French b) Latin c) Scandinavian d) Anglo-Saxon
THEORETICAL GRAMMAR
1. Parts of language are ….
a) morphology and syntax b) phonology, lexicology, grammar c) phonology, lexicology, morphology and syntax
2. Theoretical grammar is ….
a) part of language which deals with language b) a linguistic discipline which aims at describing grammar rules c) a linguistic discipline which aims at describing language on a scientific basis
3. Paradigmatic relations are established ….
a) between structurally homogeneous language units possessing some common part b) between different forms of the same word c) between different forms of the same word and between structurally homogeneous language units possessing some common part
4. Syntagmatic relations are established ….
a) in speech b) in the system of language c) in written speech
5. Grammatical meaning is the same …. a) with all grammatical forms b) with all words having the same grammatical form c) with all words beginning with the same prefix
6. Grammatical category is a unity of ….
a) the root and some grammatical or lexico-grammatical affixes b) words and their forms c) grammatical meaning and grammatical form
7. The method employed to reveal a certain grammatical category is called ….
a) the method of immediate constituents b) the method of binary oppositions c) the method of contextual analysis
8. A grammatical category … without constant formal markers.
a) can exist b) can’t exist c) always exists
9. The opposition within the category ….
a) is obligatory though it is not always binary b) is not obligatory c) is not binary
10. The category of degrees of comparison in English is established by means of a/an … opposition.
a) privative b) equipollent c) gradual
11. The traditional definitions of morphology and syntax are: morphology is that part of grammar which studies forms of words; syntax is that part of grammar which studies phrases and sentences. These definitions are based on the assumption that we … clearly distinguish between words and phrases.
a) can b) cannot c) should
12. Analytical grammatical forms consist of two elements ….
a) the notional and the functional b) the notional and the derivational c) the auxiliary and full-meaning
13. A paradigm can embrace ….
a) simple synthetic and analytical forms b) only simple forms c) only analytical forms
14. The peculiarity of English affixation is ….
a) that words are synonymous with roots b) that words are antonymous with roots c) that words are homonymous with roots
15. The suffix ity in the words necessity, peculiarity is ….
a) Lexical b) lexico-grammatical c) grammatical
16. The term “…” is only applied to every morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own.
a) suffix b) inflection (ending) c) root
17. … is a way of expressing grammatical categories which consists in changing a sound inside the root.
a) suppletivity b) sound alternation c) suffixation
18. The suffix -er is added to teach-, driv- to produce ….
a) new forms b) forms of words c) new words
19. All prefixes in English are ….
a) lexical morphemes b) derivational morphemes c) grammatical morphemes
20. The function of the morpheme as a linguistic unit is ….
a) significative b) predicative c) nominative
21. Grammatical categories of the English noun are ….
a) the category of gender, the category of case b) the category of number, the category of case c) the category of number, the category of gender
22. The theory of analytical cases was introduced by ….
a) A.I. Smirnitsky b) O. Jespersen c) M. Deutchbein
23. Qualitative adjectives ….
a) denote qualities inherent to things of the real world b) denote imaginary qualities c) denote qualities of things through some other things (material, time, etc.)
24. The ability of adjectives to form degrees of comparison is associated with ….
a) relative adjectives b) stative adjectives c) qualitative adjectives
25. … claimed that in English there are two degrees of comparison: the positive and the relative.
a) O. Jespersen b) A.I. Smirnitsky c) M. Blokh
26. In case of conversion when nouns are derived from verbs there may be ….
a) a stress shift b) a vowel shift c) a great vowel shift
27. The English category of aspect is connected with the lexical classification of verbs into ….
a) durative and terminative b) regular and irregular c) transitive and intransitive
28. The category of order in English is ….
a) a tense category b) an aspect category c) a specific category
29. It is … to establish the category of voice by means of the opposition “asks — is asked” in which both the members are marked.
a) not possible b) possible c) incredible
30. The category of voice in English is connected with the lexical classification of verbs into ….
a) transitive and intransitive b) durative and terminative c) regular and irregular
31. The difference between the doctor’s arrival (a phrase) and the doctor arrived (a sentence) lies in the following:
a) unlike sentences phrases express negation b) unlike phrases sentences express predicativity c) there is no difference between them
32. Each component of a phrase … undergo grammatical changes in accordance with grammatical categories represented in it, without destroying the identity of the phrase.
a) can b) cannot c) should
33. Intonation is one of the most important features of a….
a) word b) phrase c) sentence
34. One-member sentences are … sentences.
a) full-meaning complete b) elliptical c) composite
35. Sentences … ready-made units.
a) can be treated as b) cannot be treated c) should be treated
36. Structurally sentences fall into ….
a) simple synthetic and analytical b) simple and derived c) simple and composite
37. According to the type of communication sentences are classified into …. a) elliptical and two-member b) declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory c) simple and compound
38. The interrogative sentence presents … wanted by the speaker from the listener.
a) a request for information b) a command c) a reproach
39. The communicative function of the imperative sentence is ….
a) to induce the listener to perform (or not to perform) an action b) to let the listener perform (or not perform) an action c) to discuss with the listener how to perform (or no to perform) an action
40. Principal parts of the sentence are ….
a) independent b) interdependent c) dependent
Stilistika
A stylistic device is…
a conscious and intentional literary use of some of the facts of the language for further intensification of the emotional or logical emphasis contained in the expressive means.
a branch of general linguistics which deals with the effect of the utterance and different meanings
a type of the utterance which aims to preserve secrecy
a factual material in which not only peculiarities of language usage were taken into account but also extra linguistic data, in particular the purport of the communication
Which is an odd one? Expressive means are divided into following groups:
Lexical
Morphological
Syntactical
Phonetic
Functional styles are distinguished according…
to the social background of the participants of communication
to emotional charge of the utterance which fulfills the aim of the speaker
to the function and the peculiar choice of language means dependent on the aim of communication
to the functions of speech and the aim of the utterance and initial meaning imposed on it
Newspaper functional style consists of following sub-styles: the language style of brief news items and communiques; the language style of notices and advertisements; the language style of newspaper headlines ; and…
the language style of editorials
the language style of feature articles in newspapers and journals
the language style of oratory
the language style of essays
Which of the following varieties is not the group of the functional styles of official documents?
military documents
diplomatic documents
legal documents
scientific documents
Which of the following word-groups form standart English vocabulary?
common literary, common colloquial, terms
common literary, common colloquial, neutral words
archaisms, common colloquial, common literary
nonce-words, poetic words, common colloquial
Which of the following word-groups is the main source of polysemy and synonymy?
common literary words
literary words
neutral words
common colloquial words
Choose the incorrect statement.
Neutral words are always more emotionally colored than literary ones
Both literary and colloquial words have their upper and lower range
Literary words are less emotionally charged than colloquial ones
Neutral words have universal character
One of the most characteristic features of terms is…
its usage only in Scientific Prose functional style
its direct relevance to the system or set of terms used in a particular science, discipline or art
its emotional coloring of the utterance
its complicated acceptance and coinage with other representatives of literary vocabulary
What does the word “guy” mean?
Father
Boys and girls
Young man
Son
How many layers does English vocabulary consist of?
2
7
6
3
Which layer of English vocabulary has aspects of universal character?
Literary
Neutral
Colloquial
Special colloquial
Which type of vocabulary does the phrase “get out” belong to?
Literary
Dialectal words
Colloquial
Neutral
Which words are chiefly used in written and polished speech?
Common literary
Neutral
Special colloquial
Common colloquial
How many Functional styles are there in the English language?
4
2
8
10
Find correct varieties of official documents
diplomatic, legal, business, military
diplomatic, legal, military, educational
diplomatic, business, legal, customary
diplomatic, legal, written, military
How many subgroups are there in Belles Letters functional style?
5
3
2
6
Poetical words don’t yield to …
Homonymy
Synonymy
Polycemy
Paronymy
The word “ troth” belongs to …
Obsolescent group
Obsolete group
Historical word
Archaic proper
Which group is used and can be found in official documents?
Archaisms
Slang
Vulgarisms
Dialectal words
Barbarisms are considered to be on the “outskirts” of literary language. What does the word “outskirts” mean?
Dropped out
On the edge
Recognized
Not recognized
“Bon-mot” is a…
Archaism
Term
Barbarism
Which of these groups has lost their foreign peculiarities?
Terms
Neologisms
Archaisms
Barbarisms
The word “aforesaid” belongs to …
Archaisms
Neologisms
Barbarisms
Slang
The expressive means of a language are:
syntactical, morphological, phonetic
lexical, phonetic, syntactical
grammatical, morphological, phonetic
grammatical, lexical, morphological
The language style of editorials is related to….
The publicistic style
The scientific prose style
The newspaper style
The belles-letters style
What does the term “stylistics” originally mean?
a word
a way
a pen
a pencil
Which style embraces numerous and versatile genres of creative writing?
newspapers style
publicistic style
scientific style
belles-lettres style
The literary language is…
a variety of the nation
a historical category
a branch of the morphology
a modern category
Which type of functional styles can be found in articles, brochures, monographs and other scientific, academic, publications?
official style
publicist style
scientific style
newspaper style
How many tasks does stylistics deal with?
2
4
6
1
Find the jargonisms with correct meanings
a tiger hunter – gambler, a lexer – singer
grease – money, loaf – head
loaf – money, grease – head
a laxer – student, grease – head
Jargonisms have … character
Dialectal
Regional
Special
Social
… name a new already existing concepts, tools or instruments and have the typical properties of a special code.
Terms
Jargonisms
Dialectal words
Professionalisms
Scientific style is used
to accept the point of view expressed in the text
to prove a hypothesis, to create new concepts
to accept the point of view expressed in the text
to cause the reader (listener) to accept the point of view expressed in the text
The style of official documents aims…
to reach agreement between two contracting parties
to accept the point of view expressed in the text
to cause the reader (listener) to accept the point of view expressed in the utterance
to prove a hypothesis, to create new concepts
Professionalisms are … words
Monosemantic
Metaphorical
Polisemantic
Metonimical
Find the dialectal words with correct meanings.
Lass – young man, lad – be loved girl, lad – young man
Hinny – honey, lad – young man, fash – happy
Lad – be loved girl, lass – young man, fash – trouble
Daft – silly mind, lass – beloved girl, lad – young man
... is the repetition of similar consonants in close succession, particularly at the beginning of successive words.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Direct onomatopoeia
Indirect onomatopoeia
“ I am dying of shame”. What stylistic device is used in this sentence?
hyperbole
irony
metonymy
alliteration
“Nazariy fonetika” fani uchun test savollari
The hard palate immediately behind the upper front teeth is…
a) the soft palate
b) the uvula
c) the tongue tip
d) the alveolar ridge
Choose the line in which letter “g” is pronounced like [dʒ]
a) liege, encourage
b) longing, giraffe
c) dialogue, badge
d) singer, bridge
3. The consonant sound [h] is…
a) glottal
b) palatal
c) velar
d) verbal
4. Choose the line in which the letter combination “th” is pronounced like [ð]
a) these, that, mother
b) mother, bath, father
c) thick, thin, with
d) truth, depth, death
5. All vowels can be divided into two main categories:
a) monophthongs & diphthongs
b) tense & lax
c) free & checked
d) rounded & unrounded
6. Most of the palate is…
a) hard
b) soft
c) fixed
d) unfixed
7. The lower jaw is…
takes an active part in the sound formation
movable
fixed
unfixed
8. All the organs of speech can be divided into…
three group
five groups
four groups
two groups
9. What organ of speech produces many English consonants with the tongue touching or close to it?
the teeth ridge
the vocal cords
the lungs
the uvula
10.The farthest part of the palate from the teeth is…
the soft palate
the hard palate
the teeth ridge
the tip
11.The highest part of the palate is called…
the hard palate
the alveolar ridge
the soft palate
the uvula
12. Find the wrong answer
Active organs of speech are…
the vocal cords, the tongue, the lips
the soft palate with the uvula, the lower jaw, the lungs
the vocal cords, the tongue, the teeth
the vocal cords, the tongue, the back wall of the pharynx
13. Find the wrong answer
Passive organs of speech are…
the hard palate, the walls of the resonators
the teeth, the lips
the hard palate, the teeth ridge
the teeth, the teeth ridge
14. Speech-sounds are divided into…
two groups
three groups
four groups
five groups
15. Find the missing word
Voiced sounds are produced when the voice is heard and the vibration of ... is felt.
the vocal cords
the lips
the upper teeth
the lower jaw
16. Voiceless sounds are produced…
when no vibration of the vocal cords is felt, no voice is heard
when the vibration of the vocal cords is felt and the voice is heard
with the vocal cords kept apart
b, c
17. Voiced sounds produced in the mouth with no obstruction to the air stream are called…
sonorants
consonants
noise consonants
sonorants
18. Sounds [i, u] are…
high-broad sounds
Voiced consonants
long sound vowels
rounded sounds
19. Sounds of pure musical tone are…
sonorants
noise consonants
vowels
labial consonants
20.Noise consonants are the sounds…
in which tone prevails over noise
in which noise prevails over tone
of pure musical tone
a, c
21. Choose the line in which letter combination “ng” is pronounced like [ŋɡ]
England, language
gang, singer
angry, sing
younger, bring
22. Choose the line in which letter combination “n + consonant” is pronounced like [ŋk]
ink, uncle
thank, lodgings
tank, younger
blink, livings
23. Choose the line in which plural endings -s/es are pronounced like [s]
roof, wife
shelf, half
wolf, shelf
safe, handkerchief
24. Choose the line in which the letter combination “th” is pronounced like [ð]
these, that, mother
mother, bath, father
thick, thin, with
truth, depth, death
25. Choose the correct answer
The letter combination “ch” is pronounced like [k]
in words of Greek origin
between two vowels
when it is in the middle of the word
between the vowel and consonant
26. Choose the wrong statement
The letter combination “th” is pronounced like [ð]
between two vowels at the beginning and at the end of formal words
at the end of a word
at the beginning of any word except pronouns and other syntactic words
at the beginning of word
27. Intonation -
It is a special coloring of the voice
It is a sound in the articulation of which the air passes through the mouth freely. There is no obstruction to the stream of air. The stream of air is weak.
It is the smallest language unit, which is capable of differentiating words and grammatical forms of words.
It is a branch of phonetics, which studies the functional aspects of speech sounds.
28.What are the functions of speech sounds
Constitutive, distinctive, recognitive
Material, abstraction
Functional
derivational
29. Which tendency that determines the place and the different degree of word- stress, results in placing the word-stress on the initial syllable?
Semantic factor
Recessive tendency
Rhythmic tendency
Retentive tendency
30.[p, t, f, k, s, ᶴ, Ө, ʧ]consonants are…
Voiceless consonants
Voiced consonants
long sound vowels
unrounded sounds
31. Define the type of stressed syllable in the word MARY
I
II
III
IV
32. Define the type of stressed syllable in the word THIRSTY
II
I
III
IV
33.The consonants in the word “undo” are:
n, d
n, o
u, o
d,u
34.How many consonant sounds are there in the English alphabet?
24
26
25
22
35.Find the odd one out: u, x, t, d, f
u
f,x
t
x,t
36. How many consonant letters are there in the English alphabet?
21
24
20
23
37. How many consonant phonemes are there in English?
24
20
21
22
38. How many vowel sounds are there in the English alphabet?
20
6
15
5
39. How many vowel phonemes are there in English?
20
30
24
22
40. What is a phoneme?
the smallest unit of a language
a unit of a language
the biggest unit of a language
individual part of the language
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