Тести зі вступу до спецфілології

1. Which language belongs to the East Germanic group?

а) Gothic;

b) Gallic;

c) Latin;

d) Vandal.

2. Which language belongs to the West Germanic group?

a) English; b) Italian; c) Danish; d) Gothic.

3. The social system that the Old Germans had was

a) primitive communal system;

b) democratic;

c) feudal; d) slave-owning.

4. Dominating religion of Old Germans was

a) Christianity;

b) paganism.

5. The Gothic language belongs to

a) the East Germanic group; b) the West Germanic group; c) the North Germanic group; d) Celtic languages.

6. Answer the question: Which principles are applied while using comparative-historic method?

a) phonetic similarity of the compared units; b) genetic unity of the compared units; c) accidental similarity; d) similar semantics;

7. Phrasal stress in the Indo-European language was

a) tonic;

b) dynamic.

8. The First Consonant Shift concerns the Indo-European

a) sonorants; b) affricates; c) vowels;

d) plosives.

9. The Second Consonant Shift concerns

a) the Old Germanic consonants p, t, k; b) the Indo-European voiced plosives b, d, g; c) the Indo-European aspirated voiced consonants bh, dh, gh.

10. Mutation is

a) phonetically conditioned; b) independent of phonetic surrounding.

11. Gradation is

a) phonetically conditioned; b) independent of phonetic surrounding.

12. The words of the Indo-European origin have

a) primarily concrete lexical meaning; b) abstract meaning; c) stylistically marked meaning; d) Germanic roots.

13. The oldest written records in the Old Germanic languages are

a) Gothic; b) Runic; c) Latin.

14. The shapes of the runes were

a) stable; b) changeable.

15. K. Verner’s Law explains

a) doubling of the Germanic consonants; b) rotacism; c) exceptions from Grimm’s Law; d) mutation.

16. The Germanic tribes’ migration began in

a) 2 century BC;

b) 2 century AD; c) 12 century AD.

17. Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as

a) a stylistic device; b) a way of word formation.

18. The comparative historic method is based on

a) typological comparison;

b) ordinary comparison;

c) comparison of the phonetic forms.

19. Languages which belong to the national varieties of English are

1. American English;

2. Scots;

3. Midland dialect;

4. Cockney.

20. Received Pronunciation is the pronunciation standard in

a) the USA;

b) Great Britain;

c) Canada;

d) Australia.

Тести з історії англійської мови.

1. When did Romans conquer Britain?

1. 55BC;

2. 449 AD;

3. 43 AD.

2. Who were the first people in Britain about whose language we have definite knowledge?

1. Iberians;

2. Celts;

3. Romans.

3. Answer the question: At approximately what date did the invasion of Britain by the Germanic tribes begin?

a) V c.;

b) VII c.;

c) X c.

4. Answer the question: Which branch of Germanic languages does English belong to?

a) Eastern;

b) Western;

c) Northern.

5. The name “English” comes from

a) Saxons;

b) Frisians;

c) Angles.

6. According to its grammatical structure Old English is

a) an nalytic language;

b) a paleolithic language;

c) a synthetic language.

7. Answer the question: What old dialect is taken as classical Old English?

a) Northumbrian;

b) West Saxon;

c) Kentish.

8. Beowulf is

a) OE chronicler;

b) the leader of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion;

c) the main character of the epic.

9. The author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People is

a) Caedmon;

b) Alfred;

c) Bede, the Venerable.

10. The borderline between Old English and Middle English was

a) the Wedmore Peace Treaty;

b) the battle of Hastings;

c) the Anglo-Saxon Invasion.

11. Answer the question: What period did H. Sweet call the period of full endings?

a) New English;

b) Old English;

c). Middle English.

12. The part of speech which had dual number in Old English is

a) noun;

b) verb;

c) pronoun.

13. Answer the question: What was peculiar to strong declensions of adjectives?

a) pronominal endings;

b) nominal endings;

c) mixed.

14. The number of cases in nouns and personal pronouns was

a) 4;

b) 5;

c) 6.

15. The stems, which defined strong declension of nouns, were

a) vowels;

b) n-stem;

c) other consonants.