Approved by the head of the department

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UZBEK STATE WORLD LANGUGAES UNIVERSITY

Academic year 2021-2022

MIDTERM TEST IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY

Variant 1

Name: ___________________________________ Group :____________ Date: _____________

1.The word ‘star’ in the sentence “She is the star in her group” is a …

a) Metaphor b) Metonymy c) Polysemy d) Homonym

2. In Lexicology ‘derivation’ is the process of …

a)Creating a new word by means of affixes
b)Creating a new word by compounding and affixation
c)Making a new word by borrowing
d)Making a new word by lexicalization of the plural form of nouns

3. Antonymic words of the type “dead” and “alive” are classified as …

a)Contraries c) Contradictories
b)Incompatibles d) Periphrasis

4. What are the main types of word meaning?

a) Connotational and denotational meanings
b) Emotional and referential meanings
c) Grammatical and referential meanings
d) Lexical and grammatical meaning

5. The semantic relationship of inclusion is the feature of …

a)Synonymy c)Hyponymy
b)Antonymy d)Homonymy

6. The semantic change of the word ‘knight’ – “a servant” in Old English into “a noble
man” in Modern English is described as …

a) Narrowing of meaning c) Amelioration of meaning

b) Generalization of meaning d) Pejoration of meaning

7. Morphemes are language elements which are distinguished in the …

a) Sentence structure b) Word structure c) Text structure d) Sound structure

8. Semantic changes in the words are caused by …

a)Only extra-linguistic factors c) Extra-linguistic and linguistic factors
b)Synchronic and diachronic factors d)Only linguistic factors

9. The smallest language unit with a stable sound form and a meaning is called …
a) A phoneme b) A morpheme c c) A lexeme d) A phraseme
10. . How many major classes of morphemes exist from the structural point of view and
what are the terms applied to them?
a) Free, Bound, Semi-free c) Defective, Conditional
b) Prefixational, Suffixational, Semi-affixational d) Root, Non-root

11. Pejorative development of the connotational meaning means … .

a) the improvement of the connotational meaning
b) the acquisition by a word of some derogatory emotive charge
c) that this meaning is no longer used in modern English
d) the leading component in the semantic structure of a word

12. Phraseological units are … .

a) motivated word-groups
b) word-groups that can be freely made up in speech
c) word-groups with a partially or completely transferred meaning
d) simple word-groups

13. Internal structure of the word is … .

a) its morphological structure

b) its semantic structure
c) its sound-form
d) its etymology

14. The source of borrowing is … .

a) the language from which this or that particular word was taken into English
b) the language to which the word can be traced to
c) the language from which this or that affix of the word was borrowed
d) the process of adopting words from other languages

15. .Euphemisms are … .

a) Antonyms
b) Homonyms
c) Synonyms
d) lexicalization

16. Analyzing the morphemic structure we divide a word into …

a) Morphemes b) Phonemes c) Sememes d)Syllables

17. Which of the following words has a simple stem?

a) Receive b) Icy c) Teacher d) Reread

18. Newly coined words or phrases are called …

a) Neologisms b) Archaisms c) Slang words d)Professionalisms

19. When the plural form of a noun acquires a new lexical meaning is called…
a) Lexicalisation b) Substantivation c) Verbalisation d) Pluralisation

20. According to etymological characteristics, words are classified into …

a) Native and borrowed b) Simple and complex c) Derived and compound
d) General and special
 Approved by the head of the department

_________________________________

UZBEK STATE WORLD LANGUGAES UNIVERSITY

Academic year 2021-2022

MIDTERM TEST IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY

Variant 2
Name: ___________________________________ Group :____________ Date: _____________

1. Metonymy is………..
a) the semantic process of associating two referents one of which is closely connected with the other or
makes part of it
b) the semantic process of associating two referents one of which in some way resembles the other
c) the semantic process of differentiation primary and secondary meanings of a word
d) the semantic process of grammatical meaning

2. Words of native origin are … .

a) words of Romanic origin brought to the territory of the British Isles in the 5th—7th centuries by the
Germanic tribes and words coined later on their basis
b) words whose origin cannot be traced to any other language
c) words which may be presumed to have existed in the English word-stock in the 8th century
d) taking from another language

3.Back-formation is a way of word-building when a new word is formed by … .

a)dropping the final morpheme
b)dropping the initial sounds
c)joining two or more stems
d)droping inflactions

4. The type of meaning which expresses emotion or evaluation is called …

a) Connotational and stylistic c) Direct and indirect

b) Original and transferred d) Semantic and syntactic

5. Words grouped together by similar spelling or pronunciation and different meaning are called …

a) Archaisms b)Synonyms c) Homonyms d) International

6. The object of Lexicology is … .

a) lexical units
b) Phonemes
c) methods of lexical units' investigation
d) phrases

7. . Conversion is … .
a) the formation of a new word through the change in its paradigm
b) cases of phonetic identity of words
c) the formation of nouns from verbs
d) a change of some sounds
8. The semantic centre of the word is…

a) Prefixal morpheme b) Suffixal morpheme c) Root morpheme d) Inflectional morpheme

9. A morpheme is … .
a) the smallest phonetic unit
b) the smallest grammatical unit
c) the smallest meaningful language unit
d) the smallest language unit

10.Antonymic words of the type “dead” and “alive” are classified as …

a)Contraries c) Contradictories
b)Incompatibles d) Periphrasis

11. The Anglo-Russian Phraseological Dictionary by Kunin A.V. is classified as …

a)Encyclopedic, explanatory and specialized b)Translation, multilingual and etymological
c)Linguistic, translation and general d)Linguistic, translation and specialized

12. Polysemy is … .
a) the ability of a word to have different variants of pronunciation
b) the ability of a word to convey several concepts
c) the ability of a word to have variants of spelling
d) ) the ability of a word to have variants of pronunciation

13. Words or set phrases used instead of unpleasant or rude ones are called …
a) Hyponyms b) Hybrid words
c) Euphemisms d)Equivalent words

14. . When a word is made of two roots only, it is called …

a)Simple b)Compound c)Derived d)Compound-derived

15. Semantic changes in the words may be caused by …

a) Extra-linguistic reasons c) Extra-linguistic and linguistic reasons
b) Historical reasons d) Linguistic reasons

16. A barbarism is a borrowed word which…

a) Has not been assimilated in the new language
b) Has been partially assimilated in the new language
c) Has been fully assimilated in the new language
d) Has been phonetically assimilated

17. Words borrowed by several languages and having similar meanings in all of them are called…
a) International words b) Translation loans .c) Borrowings proper d)Etymological doublets

18. Which of the following word groups is a phraseological unit?

a) To put on airs b) To put on a coat c) To put on shoes d) To put on a hat

19. Words different in sound form but similar in meaning and interchangeable in some contexts are
called
a) Synonyms b) Antonyms c) Homonyms d)Hyponyms

20. How was the word ‘slimnastics’ made?

a) By blending b) By shortening c) By affixation d )By immitation