Лексикология _01_ENG.doc

001 A morpheme is

A) the smallest meaningful unit of form

B) the basic unit of a language

C) a cliché

D) a collocation

E) an abbreviation

$$$002 Semantically morphemes are classified as

A) bound morphemes

B) free morphemes

C) semi-free morphemes

D) root and affixational morphemes

E) semi-bound morphemes

$$$003 Structurally morphemes fall into

A) root morphemes

B) stem morphemes

C) prefixational morphemes

D) suffixational morphemes

E) free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes

$$$004 The root of the word is

A) a derivational affix

B) the basic unit of a language

C) the basic part of a word to which affixes are added

D) a grammatical paradigm

E) a derived stem

$$$005 A stem is

A) a functional affix

B) a derivational affix

C) a prefix

D) a suffix

E) the part of the word that remains unchanged through its paradigm

$$$006 A paradigm is

A) the system of the lexical meanings of a word

B) the system of the grammatical forms of a word

C) the system of the morphological changes of a word

D) the system of the semantic changes of a word

E) the system of the lexico-grammatical changes of a word

$$$007 An allomorph is

A) a positional variant of a morpheme

B) an affix placed within a word

C) an ultimate constituent of a word

D) an association of a given meaning with a given sound

E) a common element of words

$$$008 Proof in the word fireproof is

A) an infix

B) a semi-affix

C) an allomorph

D) a suffix

E) an inflection

$$$009 Friend is a

A) bound morpheme

B) semi-free morpheme

C) semibound morpheme

D) free morpheme

E) morphol

$$$010 Which of the following lines has diminutive suffixes

A) heroine, actress

B) booklet, girlie

C) poetic, picturesque

D) cloudy, girlish

E) funny, sunny

$$$011 The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have

A) a free stem

B) a bound stem

C) a semi-bound stem

D) a semi-free stem

E) a compound stem

$$$012 Isotope is a

A) historism

B) common colloquial word

C) neologism

D) jargonism

E) vulgarism

$$$013 Which of the following lines have derived stems

A) story-teller, match-box, friendly

B) beautiful, girlish, activate

C) distance, experiment, sequence, police

D) ache, cup, look

E) chortle, goody-goody, UNO

$$$014 Morphemes occur as

A) constituents of sentences

B) constituents of words

C) constituents of sounds

D) constituents of phrases

E) free forms

$$$015 Words which consist of a root and an affix (or affixes) are

A) derived words

B) root words

C) compound words

D) curtailed words

E) blendings

$$$016 Choose the line with root words

A) reread, mispronounce, unwell

B) V-day, lab, pram

C) room, work, book

D) workaholic, mother-in-law, update

E) singing, friendship, kingdom

$$$017 A prefix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

$$$018 A suffix is

A) a derivational morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

$$$019 An infix is

A) a derivationl morpheme preceding the root

B) a derivational morpheme following the stem

C) a common element of words within a word-family

D) an affix placed within the word

E) a combining form

$$$020 Functional affixes

A) convey grammatical meaning

B) form different words

C) provide the structural completeness of a word-group

D) convey emotional components of meaning

E) form blendings

$$$021 Derivational affixes serve

A) to form different words

B) to convey grammatical meaning

C) to build different forms of one and the same word

D) to form only neologisms

E) to connect parts of blendings

$$$022 Lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies

А) the history of a language

В) the grammatical system of a language

С) the phonemic shape of words

D) the vocabulary of a language

E) the relations between the language and social life

$$$023 Derivatives include

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two free morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

$$$024 The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in

A) lexicology

B) phonetics

C) phraseology

D) lexicography

E) grammar

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$$$025 Word-formation is the process of creating

A) root morphemes

B) affixation morphemes

C) grammatical forms of a word

D) new words

E) bound stems

$$$026 Affixation is the formation of words

A) by adding derivational affixes to stems

B) by joining two or more stems

C) by combining parts of two words

D) by reducing a word to one of its parts

E) by shortening a written word or phrase

$$$027 Archer, phaeton are

A) historisms

B) common colloquial words

C) dialectical words

D) jargonisms

E) vulgarisms

$$$028 Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

A) by joining two or more stems

B) by adding derivational affixes to stems

C) by means of changing the paradigm

D) by combining parts of two words

E) by clipping the beginning or the end of the word

$$$029 What is clipping

A) the result of reduction of a word to one of its parts

B) the result of adding affixes to free stems

C) the result of merging parts of words into one new word

D) the result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words

E) the result of shortening and compounding

$$$030 Which word-building ways are similar to compounding

A) affixation

B) sound imitation

C) conversion

D) back formation

E) blending and reduplication

$$$031 What is blending

A) telescoping, reduplication

B) sound and stress interchange

C) back-formation

D) sound imitation

E) affixation

$$$032 Which word -building types are similar to conversion

A) adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization

B) blending, telescoping, reduplication

C) sound and stress imitation

D) initial and final clipping

E) lexical and graphical abbreviations

$$$033 Coarse words that are not generally used in public are

A) slangs

B) common colloquial words

C) dialectical words

D) jargonisms

E) vulgarisms

$$$034 Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

A) productive ways of word-building

B) minor types of word making

C) principal ways of word-building

D) ways of making up phraselogical units

E) ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

$$$035 Shortening is

A) a common element of words

B) a derived word

C) the smallest meaningful unit

D) a significant subtraction of a word

E) blending

$$$036 Compound words are

A) words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms

B) class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning

C) nouns denoting some feelings and state

D) derivational morphemes standing before the root

E) the smallest meaningful unit

$$$037 Derivational compounds are

A) words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group

B) derivational morphemes standing before the root

C) elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary

D) compound words that have affixes

E) words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages

$$$038 Which of the following words are derived compounds

A) boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower

B) well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered

C) overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds

D) refrigerators, appendicitis, violation

E) forget-me-not, information, disagreement

$$$039 According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

A) simple

B) shortened

C) compound

D) derived

E) blendings

$$$040 Words jersey, pullover are

A) slang words

B) neologisms

C) obsolete words

D) terms

E) international words

$$$041 The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is

A) to point out the number of morphemes

B) to state the derivational pattern of the given word

C) to define the degree of derivation of the primary stem

D) to state the meaning of the word

E) to find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its

meaning

$$$042 Wall newspaper is a

A) familiar quotation

B) saying

C) metaphor

D) metonymy

E) translation loan

$$$043 Define the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar

A) lexicalization

B) blending

C) back formation

D) shortening

E) sound imitation

$$$044 Which of the following words are blendings

A) beggar, to burgle, to edit

B) hanky, nighty, radar

C) M. P., USA, BBC

D) ping-pong. topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie

E) smoge, brunch, dramedy – smog, brunch, dramedy

$$$045 Which of these nouns are derived from verbs

A) a pain, a tramp, a button

B) a pen, a weekend, a drink

C) a break, a catch, a jump

D) a cook, a button, a monkey

E) a fall, a windglass, an act

$$$046 Choose the line with interjections

A) purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do

B) quack, moo, buzz

C) hiss, gibber, bray

D) bang!, hush!, pooh!

E) clash, crash, whip

$$$047 Find the line with asyntactic compounds

A) bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor

B) know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale

C) door-handle, day-time, time-table

D) a green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists

E) oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown

$$$048 -er, -dom, -ness, -ation are

A) adjective -forming suffixes

B) adverb-forming suffixes

C) noun-forming suffixes

D) verb-forming suffixes

E) numeral-forming suffixes

$$$049 The underlined words in the following sentences: "How often do you milk the cows", "Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs. " "He began to nose about like an old bloodhound." are cases of

A) allusion

B) conversion

C) cliché

D) metaphor

E) euphemism

$$$050 Derivatives contain

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two free morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

$$$051 Compound words are maid of

A) one free morpheme

B) not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

C) not less than two morphemes

D) not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

E) a group of words

$$$052 An occasional word is

A) a word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object

B) a word which cannot be considered a permanent element of the word stock

C) a word of etymologically different origins

D) a word borrowed from another language

E) a word formed by combining stems

$$$053 Form or functional words comprise

A) auxiliary verbs

B) prepositions

C) conjunctions

D) relative adverbs

E) all this group

$$$054 Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are

A) derivatives

B) compounds

C) compound derivatives

D) simple words

E) synonyms

$$$055 The word TV is a case of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) abbreviation

E) sound interchange

$$$056 The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

A) shortening

B) conversion

C) reouplication

D) compounding

E) back-formation

$$$057 Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of coordinative compounds

A) ICs are semantically and structurally equally important

B) ICs are structurally equally important

C) ICs are semantically equally important

D) ICs are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance

E) they are made up only with the help of a linking element

$$$058 A word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object or express a new concept is a

A) euphemism

B) homonym

C) hybrid

D) loan word

E) neologism

$$$059 Which of the following lines contain cases of back formation

A) to envy, to escape, to lose

B) to trust, to finger, to learn

C) to show, to lift, to chat

D) chortle, brunch, smog

E) to baby-sit, to beg, to cobble

$$$060 What is the difference between the derivational and functional suffixes

A) a derivational suffix precedes and a functional suffix follows the root

B) both of them precede the root

C) both types of suffixes follow the root, a derivational suffix forms nouns, a

functional suffix forms other parts of speech

D) a derivational suffix forms various new words while a functional suffix forms

various grammatical forms of the same word

E) they are synonymous terms

$$$061 Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion

A) adjectives

B) adverbs

C) pronouns

D) verbs and nouns

E) numerals

$$$062 How many semantic structures does a compound word possess

A) a single semantic structure

B) two semantic structures

C) three semantic structures

D) four semantic structures

E) five semantic structures

$$$063 The word exam is a case of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) sound-interchange

E) onomatopoeia

$$$064 The words lab and laboratory are different in

A) structure

B) stylistics

C) meaning

D) affixation

E) derivation

$$$065 The words TV, T.B. are cases of

A) clipping

B) blending

C) back-formation

D) abbreviation

E) sound interchange

$$$066 Sound imitation is

A) the derivation of new words by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from

existing words

B) the naming of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a sound

association with it

C) opposition of words or word-forms.

D) lexical abbreviation

E) reduction of a word to one of its parts

$$$067 Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation

A) word-composition

B) conversion

C) affixation

D) word-derivation

E) back-formation

$$$068 Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping

A) T-shirt, H-bomb, V-day

B) story, phone, cello

C) flu, fridge, tech

D) babble, chatter, giggle

E) beg, housekeep, butler

$$$069 Connotational component is

A) the grammatical meaning of the word

B) the denotational meaning of the word

C) the emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word

D) the lexical meaning of the word

E) the sound form of the word

$$$070 “Has been” in the following sentence "She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been" is the result of

A) word-composition

B) word derivation

C) conversion

D) polysemy

E) affixation

$$$071 Adding derivational affixes to stem is called

A) affixation

B) acronym

C) abbreviation

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

$$$072 What kind of clipping is the word “ math ”

A) final clipping

B) initial clipping

C) medial clipping

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

$$$073 The following words hell, damn, shut up are

A) terms

B) dialectical words

C) slang

D) vulgarisms

E) synonyms

$$$074 The word dogged is

A) root word

B) derivative

C) compound

D) compound derivative

E) morpheme word

$$$075 Jargonisms are

A) words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic

character

B) common colloquial words

C) professionalisms

D) vulgarisms

E) barbarisms

$$$076 The word “story”is an example of

A) final clipping

B) initial clipping

C) medial clipping

D) reduplication

E) sound interchange

$$$077 mis, dis are

A) infixes

B) prefixes

C) interfixes

D) suffixes

E) inflections

$$$078 The word brunch(breakfast+lunch) was formed with the help of

A) sound-interchange

B) shortening

C) conversion

D) affixation

E) blending