Лексикология_03_eng.Doc
079 Semasiology is the branch of lexicology that deals with
A) differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication
B) the phonemic shape of words
C) the grammatical function of words
D) a positional mobility of words within a sentence
E) the study of word meaning
{Правильный ответ}=E
080 A metaphor is
A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity
B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity
C) specialization of meaning
D) degradation of meaning
E) amelioration of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=A
081 A metonymy is
A) a transfer of name based on the association of similarity
B) a transfer based upon the association of contiguity of meaning
C) specialization of meaning
D) degradation or of meaning
E) amelioration of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
082 Euphemism is
A) the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones
B) a taboo
C) an irony
D) an ellipsis
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=A
083 The White House, boston, volt, mackintosh are cases of
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a euphemism
D) an irony
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=B
084 A Don Juan, the foot of the bed, bookworm, the head of the school are cases of
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a euphemism
D) an irony
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=B
085 The words deer (O.E. 'wild beast'), meat (O.E. 'food') are cases of
A) widening of the meaning
B) pejoration of the meaning
C) amelioration of the meaning
D) specialization of meaning
E) generalization of the meaning
{Правильный ответ}=D
086 Choose the line with synonyms to the word to look
A) to see, to gaze, to blame
B) to peep, to stroll, to sob
C) to watch, to strive, to race
D) to gaze, to glance, to peep, to stare
E) to starve, to search, to wait
{Правильный ответ}=D
087 Which of the following words are homonyms proper
A) sea (n) - see (v)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) tear (n) - tear (v)
D) bank (n) - bank (n)
E) knight (n) – night (n)
{Правильный ответ}=D
088 Head of a cabbage is
A) a metaphor
B) a metonymy
C) a saying
D) a euphemism.
E) a proverb
{Правильный ответ}=A
089 Metonymy is based on
A) narrowing of meaning
B) contiguity of meaning
C) pejoration of meaning
D) amelioration of meaning
E) extention of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
090 Metaphor is a transfer of name based on
A) the association of similarity
B) contiguity of meaning
C) pejoration of meaning
D) amelioration of meaning
E) extension of meaning
{Правильный ответ}=A
091 The word combinations a long distance, a long speech, a short path, a short time are cases of metaphor based upon
A) the analogy between duration of time and space
B) similarity of shape
C) similarity of behaviour
D) similarity of function
E) similarity in position
{Правильный ответ}=A
092 Meaning is
A) the relation between the object or notion named, and the name itself
B) stylistic coloring of the word
C) the lexical valency of the word
D) the syntactic valency
E) the sound form
{Правильный ответ}=A
093 Choose the line with total (complete or absolute) synonyms
A) pretty, handsome, beautiful
B) functional affix, inflection, flexion
C) to eat, to partake, to peck
D) capable , skillful, qualified
E) companion, friend, associate
{Правильный ответ}=B
094 Choose the line with the derivational antonyms
A) careful – careless
B) slow – fast
C) correct - incorrect – wrong
D) temporary-permanent
E) enemy – friend
{Правильный ответ}=A
095 Choose the letter with mixed antonyms
A) final – first
B) safety – danger
C) active - passive – inactive
D) temporary – permanent
E) slow – quick
{Правильный ответ}=C
096 Choose the line with synonyms to the word to hope
A) to expect, to look forward, to anticipate
B) to look forward, to sway, to puff
C) to wait, to plague, to anticipate
D) to appeal, to sway, to look forward
E) to controvert, to contradict, to glaze
{Правильный ответ}=A
097 Choose the line with the case of a hyperbole
A) the White House
B) thousand pardons
C) mother tongue
D) the leg of the table
E) grass green
{Правильный ответ}=B
098 Seeds of evil is
A) metonymy
B) simile
C) litotes
D) metaphor
E) epithet
{Правильный ответ}=D
099 Choose the letter with homophones
A) night (n) - knight (n)
B) tear (n) - tear (v)
C) lead (n) - lead (v)
D) wind (n) - wind (v)
E) new (adj) – old (adj)
{Правильный ответ}=A
100 Choose the line that has words belonging to terminology
A) lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome
B) a book, a shop, a suit, a street
C) telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor
D) to go to bed, to get up, to have breakfast, to clean
E) three, above, are, far, straight
{Правильный ответ}=C
101 Choose the line with homonyms proper
A) ball (n) - ball (n)
B) wind (n) - wind (v)
C) check (n) - cheque (n)
D) been (v)- bean (n)
E) bear (n) – bear (v)
{Правильный ответ}=A
102 Choose the line with the homographs in the following sets of words
A) new – knew
B) brake – break
C) by – buy
D) piece – peace
E) bow - bow
{Правильный ответ}=E
103 Choose the line with the case of a metaphor
A) the Pentagon
B) the bonnet of the car
C) to kick the bucket
D) at all
E) tick-tack
{Правильный ответ}=B
104 "I'll poet him!", "I'll orange your face!", "to girl the boat". Are the underlined verbs the cases of
A) traditional conversion
B) occasional conversion
C) metaphor
D) metonymy
E) humor
{Правильный ответ}=B
105 What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have
A) the lexical meaning
B) the grammatical meaning of plurality
C) the stylistic coloring
D) the denotational meaning
E) the connotational meaning
{Правильный ответ}=B
106 The words: swish, splash are
A) phonetically motivated
B) semantically motivated
C) morphologically motivated
D) non-motivated
E) graphically motivated
{Правильный ответ}=A
107 Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)
A) idiom
B) euphemism
C) hybrid
D) etymological doublet
E) metonymy
{Правильный ответ}=B
108 Set expression “tooth and nail” functions like a (an)
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
E) preposition
{Правильный ответ}=A
109 “I have told you 50 times” is an example of a
A) metonymy
B) metaphor
C) euphemism
D) hyperbole
E) litotes
{Правильный ответ}=D
110 Words to commence, to compute are
A) learned words
B) common colloquial words
C) dialectical words
D) jargonisms
E) vulgarisms
{Правильный ответ}=A
111 “Doctor, medical man”,and “scientist, scholar” are
A) ideographic synonyms
B) stylistic synonyms
C) antonyms
D) total synonyms
E) partial synonyms
{Правильный ответ}=D
112 Words, which are different in sound and in meaning, but identical in spelling are
A) homonyms proper
B) homophones
C) homographs
D) synonyms
E) antonyms
{Правильный ответ}=C
113 To err is human is a (an)
A) cliché
B) proverb.
C) idiom.
D) free phrase.
E) familiar quotation.
{Правильный ответ}=E