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C2 Use of English

C2Lingua e significato38 min

Test 1: La vita delle parole

Test 1: The life of words

Un test misto di livello proficiency su come le parole cambiano significato: collocazioni sottili, inversione, espressioni fisse e forme derivate.

Questo test di Use of English di livello C2 mescola collocazioni molto fini, strutture formali e formazione delle parole. Ogni frase parla di parole, significato e del modo in cui le lingue cambiano. Nella Parte 1 scegli l'opzione migliore, nella Parte 2 completi ogni spazio con la parola o le parole adatte e nella Parte 3 costruisci una nuova parola a partire da quella data.

Esercizio 1 di 3

Parte 1: Spazi a scelta multipla

Scegli la parola o l'espressione che completa meglio ogni 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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Esercizio 2 di 3

Parte 2: Spazi aperti

Scrivi la parola o le parole mancanti in ogni spazio. Scrivi una sola parola, a meno che l'item non richieda chiaramente una breve espressione.

  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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Esercizio 3 di 3

Parte 3: Formazione delle parole

Usa la parola in MAIUSCOLO alla fine di ogni frase per formare una parola adatta allo spazio vuoto. Scrivi una sola parola.

  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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