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Choose the best answer
1. Which of the following is not correct about sentence?
a. The meaning of a sentence is out of context
b. A sentence is a group of words said by a speaker
c. The meaning of a sentence is the linguistic meaning
d. A sentence conveys a complete meaning
2. Which of the following statements is not true about proposition?
a. A proposition can be true or false
b. A proposition must be grammatically correct
c. A proposition is not tied to time
d. It is non-sense to talk about the place of a proposition.
3. Which of the following statements is true?
a. It is meaningful to talk of the time and place of a proposition
b. It is meaningless to talk of the loudness of a proposition.
c. One proposition can be expressed by one sentence only.
d. “Is Everest the highest mount in Vietnam?” is a proposition
4. Which of the followings is a proposition?
a. Would you mind closing the window?
b. How about a walk after dinner?.
c. Close the door, please .
d. I am very glad to meet you here.
5. The following pair “John loves Mary” and “Mary loves John” contains________.
a. two sentences; one proposition
b. two sentences; two propositions
c. two utterances; one proposition
d. two utterances; two propositions
6. Which of the following statements is not true?
a. A lexical field is the organization of words of the same grammatical category into a system
b. The meaning of a hyponym is included in that of its hypernym
c. Hyponymy is the one-way relationship from hyponyms to hypernym
d. A hyponym is a special case of hypernym
7. The relationship between ‘cock’ and ‘fowl’ is_______.
a. synonymy
b. hyponymy
c. polysemy
d. whole-part
8. The best hypernym for the lexical field ‘glass, cup, jug, wine glass, plastic cup’ is_______.
a. cup
b. glasses
c. vessels
d. container
9. One of the hyponyms of ‘flower’ is_______.
a. plant
b. ash
c. carnation
d. sugar cane
10. The pragmatic meaning of B’s utterance in the following conversation is_______.
A: “Have you finished the test?”
B: “I am trying ”
a. B has no idea
b. B wants A to help him
c. B hasn’t finished it yet
d. A has already finished it
11. The semantic role of the underlined part in ‘Without a beer, Paul can’t work affectively’
is_______.
a. instrument
b. cause
c. patient
d. stimulus
12. The semantic role of the underlined part in ‘A spider makes the girl terrified to death’
is_______.
a. instrument
b. cause
c. patient
d. stimulus
13. The semantic role of the underlined part in ‘A bouquet of roses makes
the girl very happy on Valentine’s Day’ is_______.
a. agent
b. experiencer
c. patient
d. stimulus
14. The semantic role of the underlined part in ‘The new comer is ready to leave in 5 minutes’
is____.
a. instrument
b. cause
c. patient
d. agent
15. “Paula is a baby sitter.” contains a_______.
a. lexical ambiguity
b. structural ambiguity
c. grouping ambiguity
d. functional ambiguity
16. The semantic role of the underlined part in “The snow melts at the morning sunshine”
is_______.
a. instrument
b. temporal
c. agent
d. patient
17. The figure of speech used in “She has a tongue of king” is_______.
a. metaphor
b. metonymy
c. synecdoche
d. personification
18. The figure of speech used in “Oh, my back is killing me” is_______.
a. euphemism
b. personification
c. synecdoche
d. all of them
19. Semantically, “The sorrow is chewing my bones” is a(n)_______.
a. metaphor
b. personification
c. euphemism
d. anomaly
20. The figure of speech used in “He is so intelligent that no schools dare to receive him”
is_______.
a. irony
b. metonymy
c. synecdoche
d. metaphor
21. While ____studies the relationship between language and objects, ____studies the
relationship between language and user.
a. semantics/pragmatics
b. semantics/linguistics
c. linguistics/pragmatics
d. linguistics/phonetics
22. Which of the following is a proposition?
a. Where are you from?
b. How about going out tonight?
c. I don’t want you to come tonight.
d. Close the door, please.
23. Which of the following is not true about utterance?
a. An utterance is a sentence said in a particular context.
b. An utterance is context dependent / bound.
c. The meaning of an utterance depends on the situation in which it is uttered.
d. The meaning of an utterance is the sum of meanings of the constituent words.
24. Which of the following statements is not true?
a. A lexical field is the organization of semantically related words into a system.
b. A semantic field is a group of words sharing the same semantic feature.
c. A semantic field is a group of words sharing the same part of speech.
d. There are different ways to organize semantically related words into a lexical field.
25. Which of the following statements is not true?
a. The meaning of a hyponym is included in that of a hypernym.
b. A hyponym is a special case of a hypernym.
c. The relationship from hypernym to hyponyms is called hyponymy.u
d. Hyponymy is a one-way relationship so that a hyponym is a kind of hypernym
26. Pragmatically, what does B want in the following conversation?
A: ‘May I see the Director, please?’
B: ‘Do you have an appointment?’
A: ‘I’m sorry, no.’
B: ‘ If you’ll wait for a minute, I’ll see if the director could see you now.’
a. a refusal
b. a request
c. an announcement
d. a statement
27. ___is a relation in which the referent of a word is totally included in the referent of another
word.
a. polysemy
b. hyponymy
c. homonymy
d. homography
28. A ____s that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes
some state of affairs.
a. proposition
b. utterance
c. sentence
d. Phrase
29. Which of the following does not belong to the denotative meaning of ‘teacher’ ?
a. human
b. mature
c. male
d. professional
30. The best hypernym of ‘school, teacher, text book, educate, study, instruct’ is:
a. teaching
b. program
c. studying
d. educational
31. A(n) _____sentence is a sentence that is necessary false, as a result of the senses of the words
in it.
a. contradictory
b. analytic
c. synthetic
d. antonymous
32. Semantically, the sentence ‘You can never keep slender that way.’ is a(n) ______sentence.
a. contradictory
b. analytic
c. synthetic
d. antonymous
33. Figuratively, the sentence ‘My father is a woman.’is_______.
a. anomalous
b. metaphoric
c. contradictory
d. antonymous
34. Such pairs of words as ‘boy/girl; dog/cat; gas/solid; uncle/aunt…’ are examples of_______.
a. converses
b. relational antonyms
c. binary antonyms
d. incompatibility
35. Semantically, the sentence ‘This exercise is a piece of cake for us.’ is a(n) ______sentence.
a. metaphoric
b. analytic
c. synthetic
d. anomalous
36. Figuratively, the sentence ‘He is so thirsty that he can drink 2 cans without stopping.’
is_______.
a. anomalous
b. hyperbolic
c. metaphoric
d. metonymic
37. Figuratively, the sentence ‘I’m really sorry I won’t be able to see you this week, but I am
absolutely snowed under with work.’ is metonymic
a. hyperbolic
b. metaphoric
c. personified
d. euphemistic
38. Figuratively, the sentence ‘A dead leaf fell in my lap. That was Jack Frost’s card.’ is_______.
a. hyperbolic
b. metonymic
c. anomalous
d. metaphoric
39. Figuratively, the sentence ‘We’ve got some new blood in the organization .’ is_______.
a. synecdoche
b. metaphoric
c. personified
d. euphemistic
40. The relationship between the following sentences is_______.
A: ‘Denis did not get savaged by a sheep.’
B: ‘Denis did not get savaged by an animal.’
a. A entails B
b. B entails A
c. paraphrase
d. no relation
41. The relationship between the following sentences is_______.
A: ‘Yesterday Peter gave me a lift to school.’
B: ‘Yesterday I went to school.’
a. paraphrase
b. contradiction
c. entailment
d. no relation
42. The relationship between the following sentences is_______.
A: ‘We went in a small bus.’
B: ‘We went in a small vehicle.’
a. paraphrase
b. contradiction
c. entailment
d. no relation
43. Which one is a possible implicature for the following situation?
A: ‘Mike and Annie should be here by now. Was their plane late?’
B: ‘Possibly.’
a. B is not sure that the plane was late
b. Mike & Annie took a plane
c. They have an appointment with A&B
d. A & B must know who Mike & Annie are.
44. Which one is a possible implicature for the following situation?
A: ‘The bathroom is flooded!’
B: ‘Someone must have left the tap on.’
a. B did not leave the tap on
b. B does know who did it.
c. There is a bathroom in A’s house
d. A & B live in the same house.
45. Which one is a possible implicature for the following situation?
A: ‘Have you seen my sweater?’
B: ‘There’s a sweater on the sofa.’
a. A has got a sweater
b. B left the sweater on the sofa
c. B is not sure whether the sweater on the sofa is A’s.
d. A & B are looking for the sweater.
46. The utterance ‘I am sorry, I cannot find your book right now.’ presupposes_______.
a. the speaker has lent the book to the hearer
b. the speaker gave someone the book
c. the speaker apologizes to the hearer
d. the hearer has lent the book to the speaker
47. The utterance ‘You will be amazed when you see the view.’ presupposes_______.
a. the speaker is a teacher
b. the hearer has seen the beautiful view
c. the speaker is a tourist guide
d. There is a beautiful view somewhere
48. The utterance ‘It took us two days to come back from Hanoi by train.’ presupposes______.
a. the speaker once went to Hanoi
b. the speaker had a two-day vacation in Hanoi
c. the speaker went to Hanoi by train
d. the speaker came back by car
49. Which of the following is not a cooperative maxim?
a. quantity
b. quality
c. relation
d. tone
50. Which cooperative maxim is violated in the following conversation?
A: ‘What do you do, Peter?’
B: ‘Making money.’
a. quantity
b. quality
c. relevance
d. manner
