Министерство образования и науки республики казахстан казахский университет международных отношений и мировых языков тестовые задания по дисциплине

“Лексикология английского языка”

для специальности 050119- “Иностранный язык: два иностранных языка”

Составитель:

к.ф.н .доцент Булатова С.М.

Алматы, 2007

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