The decisive battle between the Normans and the English was
Тесты к экзамену по спец.филологии
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;
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a) Scots;
b) Midland dialect;
c) Cockney.
Received Pronunciation is the pronunciation standard in
a) the USA;
b) Great Britain;
c) Canada;
d) Australia.
Тесты по истории английского языка
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) analytic 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;
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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.
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