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Варіант 1

1.English belongs to the…

a) Indo – European family;

2. Chinese family;

3. Banty language family;

4. Turkic language family;

2.What group of language does English belong to?

1. Germanic;

2. Slavic;

3. Roman;

4. Gergian.

3.When did the Normans conquer England?

1. 1056;

2. 1054;

3. 1070;

4. 1077.

4. French itself is directly descended from..

1. German;

2. Celtic;

3. Latin;

4. Scandinavian.

5. How many groups is English history divided?

1. 3;

2. 4;

3. 7;

4. 5.

6. The English language of the 19th and 20^th century represents the…

1. The restoration of the English to the position of the state and literary language;

2. The stage of the greatest dialectical divergence;

3. Stage of tribal dialects of the West Germanic invaders;

4. Late NE or the modern period in the history of English language.

7. Prior to the Germanic invasion the British Isles had been inhabited by…

1. Celts;

2. Roman;

3. Scandinavian;

4. Angles.

8. What kingdom was the dialect of the Jutes?

1. Northumbrian;

2. Mercian;

3. West Saxon;

4. Kentish.

9. What kind of letters OE tribes used?

1. The runes;

2. Letters of the Greek alphabet;

3. Letters of the Latin alphabet;

4. The runes and letters of the Latin alphabet.

10. The rise of national language was favored by such factors…

1. The unification of country;

2. The growth of the vocabulary;

3. The progress of culture;

4. The introduction of Christianity.

11. What two varieties of English in Great Britain are distinguished nowadays?

1. Scandinavian;

2. Scottish;

3. Anglo – Irish;

4. Kentish.

12. What borrowed elements enter the etymological structure of English vocabulary?

1. Chinese;

2. Latin;

3. Japanese;

4. Scandinavian.

13. The greatest event in the history of English between the 14-18^th c. is named…

1. The Great Consonant Shift;

2. The Great Consonant and Vowel Shift;

3. The Large Vowel change;

4. The Great Vowel Shift.

14. What consonants are subdivided into voiced and voiceless?

1. The fricative consonants;

2. Palatal consonants;

3. Plosive consonants;

4. Velar consonants.

15. The consonant system in Late ME was in some respect different from the OE system:

1. plosive consonant were contrasted to the new affricates;

2. consonant sequences [ss], [nt], [ft] brought the lengthening of the short vowel phonemes;

3. in the set of affricates [ts] was opposed to [dz] through sonority;

4. some sequences of consonants fused into single consonant.

16. What layer contained the words which did not occur in other Germanic or non-Germanic languages?

1. Native OE words;

2. The common Germanic words;

3. The specifically OE layer;

4. The Germanic layer.

17. What was the most productive means of word derivation?

1. Prefixation;

2. Suffixation;

3. Derivational affix;

4. Root – morpheme.

18. What are the changes in the English vocabulary from 12 – 19^th century?

1. Losses of words;

2. Conversion;

3. Concepts;

4. Rivalry of synonyms.

19. What was the main language of philosophy and science in the 16 – 17^th century?

1. Latin;

2. English;

3. French;

4. Greek.

20. What was the most productive way of deriving new words in OE?

1. Prefixation;

2. Word formation;

3. Word composition;

4. Suffixation.

21. What are the noun – suffixes?

1. –ise, -il, -sion;

2. -ist, -fy, -al;

3. –ance, -enco, -ment;

4. –tion, -ise; -able.

22. What word has the noun – suffix?

1. Drinkable;

2. Fulfillment;

3. Economical;

4. Defective.

23. Semantic changes are commonly divided into:

1. Metaphoric shift;

2. Metonymic shift;

3. Widening and narrowing of meaning;

4. Metaphoric and metonymic shifts.

24. How many notional parts of speech were in OE?

1. 5;

2. 6;

3. 8;

4. 9.

25. What categories had the noun in OE?

1. Number;

2. Gender;

3. Person;

4. Case.

26. What case was primarily the case of nouns servied as attributes to other nouns?

1. Dative;

2. Nominative;

3. Accusative;

4. Genitive.

27. What grammatical categories had the adjective in OE?

1. Person;

2. Number;

3. Category of comparison, number, case;

4. Case.

28. Most OE adjectives distinguished between….. degrees of comparison:

1. 3;

2. 2;

3. 4;

4. 5.

29. The category of Tense in OE consisted of….. forms

1. 3;

2. 4;

3. 1;

4. 2.

30. The weak verbs were subdivided into…. classes.

1. 3;

2. 2;

3. 5;

4. 4.

31. The syntactic structure of the OE was determined by such major conditions…

1. The nature of OE morphology;

2. The relation between the spoken and written forms of the language;

3. A synthetic language;

4. A grammatical forms which could indicate the connections between words.

32. Most noun modifiers agreed with the noun in…

1. Number, case, gender;

2. Gender;

3. Number;

4. Case.

33. According to the ME grammars noun has ….categories.

1. 5;

2. 2;

3. 3;

4. 4.

34. The Present tense could indicate….actions, depending on the context.

1. Present;

2. Future;

3. Past;

4. Continue.

35. The indicated the transition in the state expressed by a…

1. Noun;

2. Conjunction;

3. Article;

4. Participle.

36.What dialects does split in Low German?

1. Persian;

2. Angles;

3. Celtic;

4. Saxon, angles.

37.Britons belong to..

1. The Celtic tribe;

2. The Slavic tribe;

3. The Jutes tribe;

4. The Saxon tribe.

38. The Normans had originally come from..

1. West Germanic;

2. Scandinavia;

3. Central Asia;

4. Low German.

39. What period was characteristic of the greatest dialectical divergence?

1. Anglo – Saxon;

2. Early New English;

3. Early Old English;

4. Early Middle English.

40. When was the growth of the English nationality accompanied by the formation

of the national English language?

1. Early OE;

2. Early ME;

3. Late NE;

4. Anglo – Saxon.

41. The history of the English language begins with..

1. The invasion of the British Isles by Germanic tribes;

2. The invasion to North America by West Germanic invaders;

3. The occupation of Britain by Normans;

4. The invasion of the British Isles by German tribes of Angles, Saxons, Jutes in the 5^th century.

42. The most important role in the history of the English was played by the…

1. Development of culture;

2. Development of feudalism;

3. Introduction of Christianity;

4. Continental Germanic dialects.

43. What was the main dialect of Saxon?

1. Kentish;

2. West Saxon;

3. Northumbrian;

4. Mercian.

44. The formation of the national literary language covers…

1. The Early NE period;

2. The Early OE;

3. The late NE;

4. The Middle English.

45. The age of literary flourishing is known as the…

1. Age of Elizabethan;

2. Age of Shakespeare;

3. Age of Th. More;

4. Age of W. Tyndale.

46. What kind of words in OE Latin entered English?

1. Italian;

2. Spanish;

3. French;

4. Scottish.

47. What native elements enter the etymological structure of English vocabulary?

1. Greek;

2. Indo – European;

3. Germanic;

4. English.

48. The consonant changes dated in pre-written period referred to as…

1. The Great Consonant Shift;

2. West Germanic;

3. Early OE;

4. The Middle English.

49. Early ME [r] was vocalized when it stood;

1. before vowels;

2. after vowels and between vowels;

3. between vowels;

4. another consonant.

50. What are the main layers in the native OE vocabulary?

1. Common IE words;

2. Common Latin words;

3. Specifically OE words;

4. Common Germanic words, SE words, Latin words.

Варіант 2

1. What dialects Low German does split into?

1. Persian;

2. Angles;

3. Celtic;

4. Saxon.

2. Britons belong to..

1. The Celtic tribe;

2. The Slavic tribe;

3. The Jutes tribe;

4. The Saxon tribe.

3. The Normans had originally come from..

1. West Germanic;

2. Scandinavia;

3. Central Asia;

4. Low German.

4. What period was characteristic of the greatest dialectical divergence?

1. Anglo – Saxon;

2. Early New English;

3. Early Old English;

4. Early Middle English.

5. When was the growth of the English nationality accompanied by the formation

of the national English language?

1. In Early OE;

2. In Early ME;

3. In Late NE;

4. Anglo – Saxon.

6. The history of the English language begins with..

1. The invasion of the British Isles by Germanic tribes;

2. The invasion to North America by West Germanic invaders;

3. The occupation of Britain by Normans;

4. The invasion of the British Isles by German tribes of Angles, Saxons, Jutes in the 5^th century.

7. The most important role in the history of the English was played by the…

1. Development of culture;

2. Development of feudalism;

3. Introduction of Christianity;

4. Continental Germanic dialects.

8. What was the main dialect of Saxon?

1. Kentish;

2. West Saxon;

3. Northumbrian;

4. Mercian.

9. The formation of the national literary language covers…

1. The Early NE period;

2. The Early OE;

3. The late NE;

4. The Middle English.

10. The age of literary flourishing is known as the…

1. Age of Elizabethan;

2. Age of Shakespeare;

3. Age of Th. More;

4. Age of W. Tyndale.

11.What kind of words in OE Latin entered English?

1. Italian;

2. Spanish;

3. French;

4. Scottish.

12. What native elements enter the etymological structure of English vocabulary?

1. Greek;

2. Indo – European, Germanic, English;

3. Germanic;

4. English.

13. The consonant changes dated in pre-written period referred to as…

1. The Great Consonant Shift;

2. West Germanic;

3. Early OE;

4. The Middle English.

14. Early ME [r] was vocalized when it stood;

1. before vowels;

2. after vowels;

3. between vowels and after vowels;

4. another consonant.

15. What are the main layers in the native OE vocabulary?

1. Common IE words, Germanic words, Latin words;

2. Common Latin words;

3. Specifically OE words;

4. Common Germanic words.

16. According to the morphological structure OE words consisted of….parts.

1. 2;

2. 4;

3. 3;

4. 5.

17. What was the highly productive way of developing the vocabulary of OE?

1. Prefixation;

2. Suffixation;

3. Root – morpheme;

4. Word – composition.

18. The greater part of French loan – words in English date from:

1. Old English;

2. Middle English;

3. New English;

4. Early Middle English.

19.What types word – formation fall into?

1. Word – derivation;

2. Root – morpheme;

3. Prefixation;

4. Word composition.

20. Pairs of words song – sing, sit – set date in…

1. ME;

2. NE;

3. OE;

4. Early ME.

21. What are the adjective - suffixes?

1. –able, -fy, -ise;

2. –able, -al, -ible;

3. –fy, -ise, -il;

4. –or, -er, -ist.

22. What words have the adjective – suffix?

1. Capable;

2. Fulfillment;

3. Starvation;

4. Atomic.

23. In what period of history English language was synthetic?

1. OE;

2. ME;

3. NE;

4. Early ME.

24. How many grammatical categories had the verb in OE?

1. 5;

2. 4;

3. 6;

4. 7.

25. The adjective had…. cases in OE?

1. 4;

2. 5;

3. 3;

4. 6.

26. How many grammatical categories had the adjective in OE?

1. 4;

2. 2;

3. 3;

4. 5.

27. How many kinds of declantion had adjectives in OE?

1. 1;

2. 3;

3. 5;

4. 2.

28.What are the specifically verbal categories?

1. Mood, aspect, tense;

2. Aspect;

3. Person;

4. number.

29. The Forms of the Present were used to indicate… actions

1. Present;

2. Past;

3. Future;

4. Continue.

30. How many preterite – present verbs were in OE?

1. 5;

2. 6;

3. 10;

4. 12.

31. The syntactic structure of a language can be described at the level of the…

1. Word;

2. Phrase;

3. Combination;

4. Sentence.

32. OE finite verb had verbal grammatical categories proper as…

1. Aspect, voice, tense;

2. Number;

3. Person;

4. Comparison.

33. The category of Tense consisted of such members….

1. Future;

2. Past;

3. Continue;

4. Present.

34. In OE the finite verb had no category of…

1. Aspect;

2. Mood;

3. Tense;

4. Voice.

35.In OE verb system there was no category of…

1. Voice;

2. Aspect;

3. Tense;

4. Mood.

36. The indicated of the transition in the state expressed by a…

1. Noun;

2. Conjunction;

3. Article;

4. Participle.

37. The Present tense could indicate….actions, depending on the context.

1. Present;

2. Future;

3. Past;

4. Continue.

38. According to the ME grammars it has ….categories.

1. 5;

2. 2;

3. 3;

4. 4.

39. Most noun modifiers agreed with the noun in…

1. Person, number, case;

2. Tense;

3. Mood;

4. Aspect.

40. The syntactic structure of the OE was determined by such major conditions…

1. The nature of OE morphology;

2. The relation between the spoken and written forms of the language;

3. A synthetic language;

4. A grammatical forms which could indicate the connections between words.

41. The weak verbs were subdivided into…. classes.

1. 3;

2. 2;

3. 5;

4. 4.

42. The category of Tense in OE consisted of….. forms

1. 3;

2. 4;

3. 1;

4. 2.

43. Most OE adjectives distinguished between….. degrees of comparison:

1. 3;

2. 2;

3. 4;

4. 5.

44. What grammatical categories had the adjective in OE?

1. Person;

2. Aspect;

3. Category of comparison, number, case;

4. Tense.

45. What case was primarily the case of nouns servied as attributes to other nouns?

1. Dative;

2. Nominative;

3. Accusative;

4. Genitive.

46. What categories had the noun in OE?

1. Number;

2. Gender;

3. Person;

4. Case.

47. How many notional parts of speech were in OE?

1. 5;

2. 6;

3. 8;

4. 9.

48. Semantic changes are commonly divided into:

1. Metaphoric shift;

2. Metonymic shift;

3. Widening and narrowing of meaning;

4. Metaphoric and metonymic shifts.

49. What word has the noun – suffix?

1. Drinkable;

2. Fulfillment;

3. Economical;

4. Defective.

50. What are the noun – suffixes?

a) –ise, -il, -sion;

2. -ist, -fy, -al;

3. –ance, -enco, -ment;

4. –tion, -ise; -able.