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Which language belongs to the East Germanic group?

а) Gothic;

b) Gallic;

c) Latin;

d) Vandal.

 

Which language belongs to the West Germanic group?

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

The social system that the Old Germans had was

a) primitive communal system;

b) democratic;

c) feudal;
d) slave-owning.

Dominating religion of Old Germans was

a) Christianity;

b) paganism.

 

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;

Phrasal stress in the Indo-European language was

a) tonic;

b) dynamic.

 

The First Consonant Shift concerns the Indo-European

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

d) plosives.

 

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.

 

Mutation is

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

Gradation is

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

The words of the Indo-European origin have

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

The oldest written records in the Old Germanic languages are

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

The shapes of the runes were

a) stable;
b) changeable.

K. Verner’s Law explains

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

The Germanic tribes’ migration began in

a) 2 century BC;

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

 

Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as

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

The comparative historic method is based on

a) typological comparison;

b) ordinary comparison;

c) comparison of the phonetic forms.

 

Languages which belong to the national varieties of English are

a) American English;

b) Scots;

c) Midland dialect;

d) Cockney.

 

Received Pronunciation is the pronunciation standard in

a) the USA;

b) Great Britain;

c) Canada;

d) Australia.

 

 

Тести з історії англійської мови.

When did Romans conquer Britain?

a) 55BC;

b) 449 AD;

c) 43 AD.

 

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

a) Iberians;

b) Celts;

c) 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.

 

The name “English” comes from

a) Saxons;

b) Frisians;

c) Angles.

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.

 

Beowulf is

a) OE chronicler;

b) the leader of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion;

c) the main character of the epic.

 

The author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People is

a) Caedmon;

b) Alfred;

c) Bede, the Venerable.

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.

 

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.

 

The number of cases in nouns and personal pronouns was

a) 4;

b) 5;

c) 6.

 

The stems, which defined strong declension of nouns, were

a) vowels;

b) n-stem;

c) other consonants.

 

The Germanic tribes’ migration began in

a) 2 century BC;

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

Gradation in the Germanic languages was used as

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

18. The language from which English acquired the pronouns they, their, them is

a) Scandinavian;

b) Latin;

c) French.

 

The decisive battle between the Normans and the English was

a) at Finn’s Borough;

b) at Hastings;

c) at Brunanburg.

The dialect of Middle English which became the basis for Standard English is

a) North-East;

b) London;

c) East Midland.

 

Тести з літератури

One of the most famous Imagist poems: “The apparition of those faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough” is written by

a) Hilda Doolittle;

b) Ezra Pound;

c) T.S. Eliot.

 

2. Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell that reflects events

a) leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into Stalin era;

b) leading up to World War 2 and then on into the Iron Curtain era;

c) leading up to Khrushchev’s reforms in agriculture and then on into post-Stalin era.

 

William Butler Yeats’ works are centered on

a) Scottish history and folklore;

b) Irish mythology and folklore;

c) Japanese poetry, such as “haiku”.

 

4. In A Farewell to Arms the name of the main character is

a) Frederic Henry;

b) Robert Jordan;

c) Harry Morgan.

 

5. To both Eliot and Pound, _______is necessary for the poet to create “new” poetry.

a) knowledge of tradition, the past;

b) focus on “continuous present”, with no regard to future and past;

c) rejecting any ideas about time.

 

6. Stream-of-consciousness narrative style in which the flowing thoughts and perceptions of protagonists are depicted as they would occur in real life, unfiltered, flitting from one thing to another, and often rather unpredictable is not employed in

a) Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf;

b) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence;

c) Ulysses by J. Joyce;

d) To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf;

 

7. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga is a ______ novel.

a) postmodernistic;

b) realistic;

c) modernistic.

 

8. In Ulysses, J. Joyce draws many parallels between his characters and Homer’s

a) Achilles and Hector;

b) Odyssey and Achilles;

c) Odyssey and Telemachus.

 

The main themes of Robert Frost’s poetry are

a) social progress, history moving toward a goal;

b) brutality of the city, factories, everyday life of working people;

c) nature, everyday life of common people in the country.

 

10. The novels _____ are set on one day in the character’s life.

a) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf;

b) Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf; Ulysses by J. Joyce;

c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by J. Joyce, To the Lighthouse by V. Woolf.

 

11. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell in the genre of

a) utopia;

b) anti-utopia;

c) fantasy.

 

12. In “The French Lieutenant's Woman” John Fowles offers multiple endings. Choose the correct number of endings:

a) four (Victorian, sentimental, gothic and existentialist);

b) three (Victorian, sentimental and existentialist);

c) two (Victorian and existentialist).

 

In Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” one of the main characters, Alden Pyle, is

a) a British journalist in his fifties covering the French war in Vietnam;

b) CIA agent working under cover;

c) a police inspector, torn between doing his duty and doing what is best for the country.

 

Which of the trends in English literature is inspired by Japanese poetry (with its tiny form, such as «haiku»)?

a) Surrealism

b) Impressionism;

c) Imagism.

 

Stephen Dedalus is the main character of

a) «Ulysses» and «The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man»;

b) «Ulysses» only;

c) «Ulysses» and «Finnigans Wake»;

d) «Finnigans Wake» only.

 

In Paul Austers’s “Timbuktu” the predominant postmodernist technique is

a) metafiction;

b) intertextuality;

c) play with the reader.

 

17. Determine a sub-genre of drama in which G. H. Show made a substantial contribution: the basic place does not belong either to an intrigue or a fascinating plot but to intense disputes, witty verbal duels of its characters. They grasp the depth of problems; force the reader to reflect over existing laws, orders and customs. It is

a) an intellectual drama;

b) a romance drama;

c) a historical drama.

 

The theme of W.H. Auden’s poem “Epitaph on a tyrant” is

a) ethnic;

b) social,

c) religious and moral.

 

21. In “The Great Gatsby” _____ is the novel's narrator:

a) Thomas Buchanan;

b) Jay Gatsby;

c) Nick Carraway.

 

Mrs. Ramsey is the central character in Virginia Woolf’s novel

a) “Orlando”;

b) “The Waves”;

c) “To the Lighthouse”.

 

Describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a mother's womb, and the government controls every stage of their development, from embryo to maturity.

a) “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley;

b) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by G. Orwell;

c) “Animal Farm” by G. Orwell.

 

Is Iris Murdoch’s experimental novel which centers on the life and erotic obsession of a writer, Breadly Pearson. The text suggests multiple interpretations, when subordinate characters contradict the narrator.

a) “The Black Prince”;

b) “The Sandcastle”;

c) “Bruno’s Dream”.

 

35. Indicate which statement is not true: T. S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi” is

a) a lament about the future death of the magic world;

b) a joyful account of the wonders of the journey;

c) a complaint about a journey that was painful and tedious.

 

Is an art movement supporting the ideas that a life had to be lived intensely, with an ideal of beauty; beauty was considered the basic factor of art; the Arts should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral or sentimental messages.

a) Impressionism;

b) Expressionism;

c) Aestheticism;

d) Symbolism.

 

Тести зі стилістики.

Metonymy is based on

a) similarity; b) contiguity; c) contrast.

 

Asyndeton is

a) the deliberate omission of the pronominal connective creating a blend of the main and the subordinate clauses;

b) the deliberate omission of the connective where it is generally expected to be according to the norms of the literary language;

c) the repeated use of conjunctions.

Anaphora is

a) the repetition of the same word or words at the end of two or more successive clauses or sentences;

b) the repetition of the same unit both at the beginning and at the end of the utterance;

c) the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences.

 

Meiosis is

a) overstatement;

b) understatement;

c) play on words.

 

Parenthesis is based on

a) redundancy of syntactical elements;

b) the absence of elements which are obligatory in a neutral construction;

c) change of fixed word order.

 

Colloquialisms are

a) avoided in polite conversation;

b) limited to a highly informal communication;

c) not used in formal speech though they have a slight tinge of informality or familiarity about them.

 

28. Fill in the gap: ______ denotes such an arrangement of notions expressed by words, word combinations or sentences in which what precedes is less significant than what follows.

a) Anticlimax;

b) Climax;

c) Chiasmus.

 

Тести з методики.

Motivation is

a) a kind of internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action;

b) a desire to be able to communicate in a foreign language;

c) positive attitude towards learning a foreign language.

 

2. Decide which of the following methods and approaches corresponds to the following main characteristics:

“ These courses are characterised by emphasis on the communicative functions of language and a strong situational element. Functions are presented in the language materials contextualised in situations.”

a) Functional-notional;

b) Neuro-linguistic programming;

c) Task-based learning.

 

3. The listening exercises focusing on detailed comprehension of meaning are

a) expansive listening activities;

b) extensive listening activities;

c) intensive listening activities.

 

4. Decide which of the kinds of communicative competence corresponds to the following definition:

“________is the ability to connect separate sentences into a discourse with the help of various syntactic and semantic means of cohesion.”

a) discourse competence;

b) social-linguistic competence;

c) illocution competence.

 

5. Decide which of the following methods and approaches corresponds to the following main characteristics:

“A teaching method that emphasises learning about something rather than learning about language. Learner motivation increases when students are learning about something, rather than just studying language.”

a) Content based instruction;

b) Self-directed learning;

c) Task-based learning.

 

6. Non-isolated preparatory listening exercises include only two groups out of three given below. Find the inappropriate answer:

a) exercises aimed at forming listening speech skills;

b) exercises aimed at forming listening speech habits;

c) exercises aimed at developing speech mechanisms of listening.

 

7. Decide which of the kinds of communicative competence corresponds to the following definition:

“_______is the ability to participate in communication, choosing the correct strategy of discourse for the increase of communication effectiveness.”

a) linguistic competence;

b) lingua-cultural competence;

c) strategic competence.

 

A speech pattern is

a) a scheme expressing the relationships between the components of a speech unit not less than a syntagm;

b) the typical unit of speech, by analogy with which other speech units of the same structure can be produced;

c) the speech realisation invariant (S + P + O + AM) used as an item of teaching.

 

Interpretative listening

a) deals with a number of options on the same subject or two or more texts on the same topic;

b) is a skill to interpret the received information, place it in a different light, evolve the idea conveyed in it, to comment on the heard depending on the listener’s own knowledge and experience;

c) is a skill to draw conclusions, approach what has been heard critically, understand the purpose and implications of the text.

 

22. Decide which of the kinds of communicative competence corresponds to the following definition:

“_________ is the ability to take into account peculiarities of TCL, its culture, history etc.”

a) lingua-cultural competence;

b) social-linguistic competence;

c) linguistic competence.

 

23. Decide which of the following methods and approaches corresponds to the following main characteristics:

“A situation where students learn together, based on group work; communicating in English is based on cooperation between students to negotiate meaning and understanding with each other.”

a) Task-based learning;

b) Self-directed learning;

c) Cooperative learning.

 

Simple reading means

a) reading aloud;

b) silent reading;

c) evenly attentive reading.

 

Speaking is

a) the aim of teaching L2 at school;

b) the means of teaching L2 at school;

c) both the aim and the means of teaching L2 at school.

The grammatical category is

a) a number of grammatical forms expressing both lexical and grammatical meanings;

b) a system, expressing a generalized grammatical meaning by means of paradigmatic correlation of grammatical forms, analytical or synthetical;

c) a system expressing variant grammatical meanings by means of correlated grammatical forms.

 

Sentence is defined as

a) communicative unit with a meaning and a form;

b) immediate integral unit of speech built up of words according to a definite syntactic pattern and distinguished by a meaning and contextually relevant communicative purpose;

c) immediate integral unit of speech built up of grammatical forms structured according to their meanings and communicative purpose.

 

Sentence is defined as

a) communicative unit with a meaning and a form;

b) immediate integral unit of speech built up of words according to a definite syntactic pattern and distinguished by a meaning and contextually relevant communicative purpose;

c) immediate integral unit of speech built up of grammatical forms structured according to their meanings and communicative purpose.

 

Taxis is defined as

a) the process measured from some definite moment located at present;

b) the process measured from some definite moment located at present and past;

c) the process measured from some definite moment located at present, past and future.

 

28. Answer the question: Which of the following provides for the model of immediate constituents?

a) Kernel sentences;

b) IC-derivation tree;

c) Base patterns and transforms.

 

Case is defined as

a) a lexical device to express relations between nounal referents in a sequence of words;

b) a syntactic construction showing connections between different nouns occupying certain positions in a sentence;

c) a morphological category manifested in the form of a noun declension showing the relations of a nounal reference to its neighbours as objects of the reality.

 

The section of phonetics, which studies the correlation between the phonetic systems of two or more languages, especially kindred ones and finds out the correspondences between the speech sounds of kindred languages, is

a) general phonetics;

b) historical phonetics;

c) comparative phonetics;

d) theoretical phonetics.

 

The United Kingdom” means

a) England, Scotland and Wales;

b) A group of islands including Britain and Ireland;

c) England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and a number of small islands.

 

The “Home Counties” is

a) The most homogeneous part of Britain;

b) The least homogeneous part of Britain;

c) The most undeveloped part of Britain.

 

The Tories were

a) against the royal prerogative;

b) for the royal prerogative;

c) favored the republican ideas.

 

The Truman Doctrine is

a) the plan how to reconstruct post-war industry;

b) the plan how to resist Communist aggression;

c) the plan how to unite European states in a military coalition.

 

Queen Victoria reigned for

a) 64 years;

b) 65 years;

c) 70 years.

 

The Labour Party gave

a) the agricultural labourers the right to vote;

b) the proletariat a greater voice in Parliament;

c) the aristocracy the right to be the members of trade unions.

 

The Golden State” is

a) Colorado;

b) Florida;

c) California.

 

Bloody Sunday is the day

a) when James I sent anti-Catholic Protestants from Scotland to settle in Ulster;

b) in 1916 when a group of Irish Republicans staged Easter Rising in Dublin;

c) in 1972 when British troops fired on a civil rights demonstration in Derry.

 

24. Answer the question: Which US state was the last to become a state?

a) Arizona;

b) Alaska;

c) Hawaii.

 

King Edward I was called

a) “Black Prince”;

b) “Confessor”;

c) “Martyr”.

 

British Parliament consists

a) of the House of Lords and the House of Commons;

b) of the House of Lords, the House of Commons and the Sovereign;

c) of the House of Lords, the House of Commons and the Prime Minister.

 

The Prime Minister is

a) the leader of the party which obtains a majority of seats in a general election;

b) appointed by the Sovereign;

c) the head of the Labour Party.

 

American Constitution

a) didn’t mention the parties;

b) set out two major parties;

c) determined how parties should nominate candidates for Presidency.

 

The New Deal was a plan

a) to invade other countries;

b) to develop trade with Europe;

c) to fight depression.

Klondike Day is

a) the day when the Klondike Gold Rush began;

b) the day when the Klondike Gold Rush finished;

c) an annual summer fair with a Klondike gold rush theme.

 

NATO was formed in

a) 1949;

b) 1945;

c) 1929.

 

Canada borders with the US

a) to the north and to the west;

b) to the south;

c) to the south and to the northwest.

 

Louisiana was acquired by

a) treaty;

b) purchase;

c) war.

 

Тести з лексикології

Metaphor is

a) a transference of names based on the association or similarity;

b) a transference of names based on contiguity;

c) a transference of names based on contrast.

 

Metonymy is

a) a transference of names based on the association or similarity;

b) a transference of names based on contiguity;

c) a transference of names based on contrast.

Euphemisms are words that

a) form synonymic oppositions;

b) form antonymic oppositions;

c) do not have equivalents in speech.

Synonyms are

a) words different in their outer aspects and identical or similar in their inner ones;

b) words identical or similar in both outer and inner aspects;

c) words similar in neither aspects.

 

24. Answer the question: Which of the pair of words are paronyms?

a) sensitive – sensible;

b) historical – historic;

c) proscribe – prescribe.

Antonyms are

a) words having similar meaning;

b) words having opposite meaning;

c) words having identical sound form and spelling but different meanings.

 

Contrastive analysis is

a) the study of a pair of languages in the aspect of their structural differences and similarities;

b) the detailed study of the target language;

c) comparative study of the development of two or more languages.

 

Localities are

a) dialects;

b) variants of a language;

c) ideolects.

 

Institutional discourse is

a) an action and an interaction of individuals in the definite communicative environment, in the definite social sphere of communication;

b) an action and an interaction of individuals in the educational space;

c) any interaction in the professional sphere.

 

7. The approaches to communication are viewed within the framework of the following paradigm:

a) mechanistic paradigm;

b) activity paradigm;

c) mechanistic and activity paradigm.

 

Communication takes place

a) in human social systems;

b) in animal world;

c) both in human and animal world.

 

The concept “discourse” is

a) a process of interaction;

b) a result of interaction;

c) both a process (taking into consideration the impact of sociocultural, extralinguistic, communicative-situational factors) and a result in the form of a text.

 

Institutional discourse is

a) a discourse of a definite communicative sphere;

b) business discourse;

c) professional discourse.

 

Proxemics is a way of

a) a way of using space;

b) a way of using mimics;

c) haptics (physical contact, touch).

 

Kinetics is

a) a combination of significant gestures, mimic and pantomimic motions;

b) a way of using space;

c) a combination of significant mimic and pantomimic motions.

 

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