Задание:Option I
1. Complete the sentences using the correct alternatives.
1. Chris remembers his year at the university as if it
were yesterday.
a) freshman b) fresh c) freshening d) fresh-run
2. The judge sentenced Jennings to three years' .
a) probing b) probate c) probationer d) probation
3. I couldn't find your number in the telephone .
a) directory b) guidebook c) reference d) encyclopedia
4. My first teacher was a failed bass-baritone who had me singing
big dramatic .
a) areas b) recitals c) monologues d) arias
5. He wrote his doctoral on contemporary French
literature.
a) theses b) thesis c) hypothesis d) thesaurus
6. The judge asked for the defence to explain.
a) counsel b) council c) chancellor d) charter
7. A was created by the pupils to use with the subject
keys as an aid to searching the catalogue.
a) thesis b) thesaurus c) guidebook d) gazetteer
8. Composers have written a considerable amount of music for
brass consisting of two trumpets, horn, trombone,
and tuba.
a) quartet b) quintet c) trios d) quinta
9. Female students under twenty-one were required to live in
or approved residences.
a) dormition b) offices c) apartment houses d) dormitories
10. Brady a series of brutal murders.
a) commiiteed b) committed c) counted d) commitment
2. Translate these sentences from English into Ukrainian.
a) The courts are the overseers of law.
b) In the United States each state is served by the separate court systems, state and federal.
c) Trial courts bear the main burden in the administration of justice.
d) Graduate schools in America award master's and doctor's degrees in both the arts and sciences.
e) The courses for most graduate degrees can be completed in two or four years.
f) Typically, an undergraduate student has to earn a certain number of credits in order to receive a degree.
g) Books are indispensable to any civilization,
h) Even a casual reading of the text gives you an idea of the theme,
i) His first novel won a prize for modern fiction.
j) Music is an art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds for
beauty of form or emotional expression.
Тести. Лексикологія англійської мови
English Lexicology
Chose the appropriate answer (one option only):
1. Notional, or ideographic, synonyms
a) have identical meaning and can be used interchangeably in one and the same style
b) are used in one and the same style, where their meanings exhibit variations
c) differ in both meaning and the sphere of application
2. Antonyms that represent two interrelated entities, one of which does not exist without another are
a) contradictory antonyms
b) complementary antonyms
c) contrastive antonyms
3. Metonymy is based
a) on the subsidiary concept represented by the internal word-form
b) on the similarity of entities
c) on the contiguity of entities
4. The words “lie” (лежати) and “lie” (брехати) are
a) Full lexical homonyms
b) Partial lexical homonyms
c) Partial lexico-grammatical homonyms
5. Social connotations are inherent in
a) Terms
b) Dialectal words
c) Jargonisms and professional words
6. Which of the following is not a ground of metaphor?
a) Location
b) Part-whole relation
c) Appearance
7. father – mother, dog – cat, catfish – salmon are
a) hyponyms
b) equonyms
c) partonyms
8. Polysemy means that
a) one and the same sound form signifies several meanings, and these meanings are independent
b) one and the same sound form signifies several meanings, and these meanings are interrelated
c) two words signify different meanings, but these meanings are interrelated
9. Neologisms proper
a) develop in the language to denote objects or phenomena which already have some lexical units to denote them
b) are new lexical units introduced to denote new objects or phenomena
c) are words that changed their meanings to denote new objects or phenomena
10. Which of the following is a source of homonymy?
a) Diverging meaning development of a polysemantic word
b) Diverging sound development of a polysemantic word
c) Converging meaning development of a polysemantic word Total: 10 p. max.
Модульна контрольна робота № 1
з лексикології
Variant 2.
1. What is deformation of phraseological units? Define its types. Give examples.
2. Give the definitions of the following notions:
1) etymology;
2) etymological doublets;
3) a native word;
4) a borrowed word;
5) origin of borrowing;
6) source of borrowing
3.
a) State the type of word formation:
First-rate, counterattack, four-wheeler, marvelous, masterpiece, sombrero, kitchenette, week-ender, unluckily, vac;
b) State the structural and the semantic type of the following phraseological units. Find their Ukrainian equivalents:
to be on both sides of the fence, as a bolt from the blue, to pull smb’s leg, to take a liking, alive and kicking, to join the majority, to fit like a glove, theory of relativity, cool as cucumber, a drop in a bucket.