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C2 Use of English

C2Lenguaje y significado38 min

Test 1: La vida de las palabras

Test 1: The life of words

Un test mixto de nivel de dominio sobre cómo cambian de significado las palabras: colocaciones sutiles, inversión, expresiones fijas y formas derivadas.

Este test de Use of English de nivel C2 mezcla colocaciones muy precisas, estructuras formales y formación de palabras. Todas las oraciones tratan sobre las palabras, el significado y la manera en que cambian las lenguas. En la Parte 1 eliges la mejor opción, en la Parte 2 completas cada hueco con la palabra o palabras que encajan y en la Parte 3 formas una palabra nueva a partir de la que se da.

Ejercicio 1 de 3

Parte 1: Huecos de opción múltiple

Elige la palabra o expresión que mejor completa cada frase.

  1. The word nice once meant foolish, a shift that shows how readily words _____ new associations, good or bad.

  2. Purists lament the arrival of loanwords, seemingly _____ of the fact that English has grown largely by borrowing.

  3. Slang that is all the _____ among teenagers one year can sound hopelessly dated the next.

  4. In admitting such words, editors lay themselves _____ to the charge that they are legitimising careless usage.

  5. Not until the printing press arrived _____ to be standardised.

  6. The poet’s phrase was so apt that it has passed _____ the language as a proverb.

  7. Some words resist translation: they are so bound _____ the culture that coined them that any equivalent feels thin.

  8. Whether language shapes thought remains a _____ point among linguists, though few doubt that it influences it.

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Ejercicio 2 de 3

Parte 2: Huecos abiertos

Escribe la palabra o palabras que faltan en cada hueco. Escribe una sola palabra, a menos que el ejercicio necesite claramente una frase corta.

  1. Little the early lexicographers realise how far their work would shape ideas of correct usage.

  2. Words, people, have histories that explain much of their present behaviour.

  3. It is no means certain that the word will survive another decade.

  4. The term, originally coined in jest, has since been adopted by serious scholars.

  5. Whatever its other merits, the 1926 report little to settle the matter.

  6. Slang thrives the margins of society, where inventiveness is a way of belonging.

  7. Not the manuscript was discovered did scholars grasp the true origin of the word.

  8. it not been for a chance remark, the etymology might never have come to light.

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Ejercicio 3 de 3

Parte 3: Formación de palabras

Usa la palabra en MAYÚSCULAS al final de cada frase para formar una palabra que encaje en el hueco. Escribe una sola palabra.

  1. The of the word salary from a Latin term connected with salt is often repeated, though it is disputed. (DERIVE)

  2. His account of the committee’s debates was refreshingly about the usual academic pieties. (REVERE)

  3. Overuse has led to a gradual of the word’s force. (DILUTE)

  4. The author’s for obscure vocabulary irritated his critics. (FOND)

  5. It is to expect a single dictionary to record every word in use. (REAL)

  6. Her essay explores the between spoken and written registers. (DISTINCT)

  7. The proposal to abolish the apostrophe was met with widespread among readers, who flooded the newspaper with angry letters. (APPROVE)

  8. Without their cultural background, many idioms are simply to a learner. (COMPREHEND)

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