ĐỀ SỐ 4 – SIÊU KHÓ (SEMANTICS – ADVANCED

LEVEL)

Số câu: 40 – Thời gian gợi ý: 50 phút

1. “He gave her dog meat” is ambiguous because:

A. “Dog” is a homonym
B. “Meat” is unclear
C. It is syntactically ambiguous
D. It violates selectional restriction

2. “Virtue” and “prudence” are:

A. Gradable antonyms C. Hyponyms

B. Relational antonyms D. Co-hyponyms

3. “A cat is not a dog” reflects:

A. Antonymy C. Gradability
B. Incompatibility D. Synonymy

4. The relation between “bachelor” and “unmarried man”

is:

A. Gradable C. Full synonymy

B. Lexical entailment D. Referential ambiguity

5. Which of the following is not a case of true homonymy?

A. Bank (money vs. river) jump)

B. Bat (animal vs. club) D. Book (noun vs. verb)
C. Spring (season vs.
6. “The bigger key and Peter opened the door” is:

A. Syntactically C. A metaphor
ambiguous D. A euphemism
B. Semantically anomalous

7. “She greeted the girl with a smile” has:

A. Structural ambiguity C. Polysemy

B. Anomaly D. Entailment

8. “Max found Ed an amusing companion” is ambiguous

because:

A. Lexical ambiguity in “amusing”

B. Syntactic ambiguity in object
C. Polysemy of “find”
D. Anomalous selection

9. “The waves tore the ship into pieces” is:

A. Euphemism C. Personification
B. Dead metaphor D. Hyperbole

10. “He has an eye for detail” is:

A. Synecdoche C. Hyperbole
B. Metonymy D. Polysemy
11. “How was your wedding?” presupposes:
A. You are not married
B. You had a wedding
C. The wedding is tomorrow
D. The speaker went to the wedding

12. “If you hadn’t shouted, we’d have won” contains:

A. Existential presupposition
presupposition C. Factive presupposition
B. Counterfactual D. Lexical presupposition

13. “You’re late again” presupposes:

A. This is the first time before

B. You’re never late D. You were early
C. You have been late yesterday

14. “He imagined he was the king” presupposes:

A. He is the king C. The king exists

B. He was not the king D. There was a revolution

15. “She stopped visiting her grandmother” presupposes:

A. Her grandmother is C. She will visit again

alive D. She never visited
B. She visited before

16. “He saw a mouse” entails:

A. He saw a small animal C. He didn’t see anything
B. He saw a rat D. He is afraid

17. “Not all students passed the exam” entails:

A. No one passed C. Everyone passed

B. Some students failed D. Only one student passed

18. “If you lend, someone borrows” is an example of:

A. Antonymy C. Converseness
B. Entailment D. Incompatibility

19. “She stole an umbrella” entails:

A. She took an umbrella C. She owns an umbrella

B. She borrowed an D. She made an umbrella
umbrella

20. “Philip caught a fish” → “Philip caught a trout”:

A. Valid entailment C. Gradable entailment

B. Invalid entailment D. Paraphrase

21. “He has the tongue of a king” is an example of:

A. Irony C. Metonymy
B. Euphemism D. Synecdoche
22. “The cradle to the grave” stands for:

A. Time C. Range of space

B. Symbolic war D. Literal death

23. “All our glass is stored in the cabinet” is:

A. Metonymy C. Synecdoche
B. Hyperbole D. Euphemism

24. “His Majesty has arrived” uses:

A. Irony C. Euphemism
B. Metaphor D. Metonymy

25. “She is not very beautiful” is an example of:

A. Euphemism (Litotes) C. Irony

B. Hyperbole D. Contradiction

26. “Maid” (as young female or servant) includes:

A. [+human], [+female], [+married]
B. [+human], [+female], [+young], [±occupation]
C. [+object], [+female], [-married]
D. [+human], [-female], [+unmarried]

27. “Stallion” includes:

A. [+animal], [+horse], [+female]
B. [+human], [+horse], [+male]
C. [+animal], [+horse], [+male]
D. [+object], [+horse], [-animal]

28. “Police officer” is marked as:

A. [+human], [+adult], [±male], [±occupation]
B. [+object], [-occupation]
C. [+human], [-adult], [+female]
D. [-human], [+symbolic], [+force]

29. “Palm” (as tree) vs. “palm” (of hand) is:

A. Homograph C. Homonymy
B. Polysemy D. Antonymy

30. “Get” vs. “Obtain” is:

A. Full synonym C. Homograph

B. Partial synonym D. Antonym

31. “John’s brother is not nine years old” is:

A. Contradiction C. Analytic
B. Synthetic D. Paraphrase

32. “John’s nine-year-old brother is a boy” is:

A. Analytic C. Paraphrase
B. Contradiction D. Presupposition
33. “Leaves turn yellow in the fall” is:

A. Analytic C. Contradiction
B. Synthetic D. False

34. “Cats are vegetables” is:

A. Contradiction C. Synthetic
B. Analytic D. Paraphrase

35. “That girl is her own mother’s daughter” is:

A. Contradiction C. Tautology
B. Analytic D. Synthetic

36. “Meat” and “meet” are:

A. Homonyms C. Homographs
B. Homophones D. Synonyms

37. “Lead” (to guide) vs. “lead” (metal) is:

A. Homograph C. Polysemy
B. Homophone D. Metonymy

38. “Buy” and “purchase” are:

A. Homonyms C. Partial synonyms

B. Synonyms D. Relational antonyms
39. “None – All” is:

A. Gradable C. Converses
B. Binary antonymy D. Incompatibles

40. “I saw her slip” is ambiguous due to:

A. Lexical ambiguity C. Structural ambiguity

B. Referential ambiguity D. Grammatical anomaly

1.C 5.D 9.C 13.C 17.B 21.C 25.A 29.C 33.B 37.A
2.D 6.A 10.B 14.B 18.C 22.A 26.B 30.B 34.A 38.C
3.B 7.A 11.B 15.B 19.A 23.C 27.C 31.B 35.C 39.B
4.C 8.B 12.B 16.A 20.B 24.D 28.A 32.A 36.B 40.C