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Please read the questions provided with four choices, marked A, B, C and D. Then, tick the
correct box for the letter that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
1. Which of the following is defined as “a complete thought about the state-of- affairs expressed by a
declarative sentence” ?
A. reference B. sentence C. utterance D. proposition
2. Which is the presupposition of the following sentence:
Not everyone can come to the party.
A. No one can come to the party.
B. It is not true that everyone can come to the party.
C. There is a party.
D. Someone will come to the party.
3. Which of the following referring expressions can have a constant reference?
A. He in “If anyone ever sees her, he should phone the police”
B. It in “It’s sinking”
C. Joe in “Joe is my best friend”
D. The man in “The man who lives next door is a famous writer”
4. Which of the following does the sentence John is no longer a millionaire presuppose?
A. John used to be a millionaire B. John was not rich.
C. John was so rich that he didn’t dream anything D. none of the above
5. What is the semantic relationship between the two underlined words in the following example?
A crow is a large shiny black bird that makes a loud sound.
A. hyponymy B. synonymy C. homonymy D. polysemy
6. Which of the following is lexically ambiguous?
A. Credit cards are useful because consumers do not have to carry large amounts of money.
B. Semantics is a branch of linguistics.
C. She knew a littl Greek.
D. The German teachers visited the British Museum yesterday.
7. Which of the following is absolutely unacceptable?
A. Bring me a cup of tea! B. Get me a cup of tea! C. Give me a cup of tea! D. Take me a cup of tea!
8 Which word or phrase in the sentence The fat girl observed the man with the binoculars is most likely
to cause ambiguity?
A. the man B. observed
C. the fat girl D. with the binoculars
9. Which of the following is NOT the hyponym of the superordinate jewellery?
A. bracelet B. diamond C. necklace D. ring

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10. A ............ antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings lie on
a continuous spectrum.
A. converses B. multiple incompatible
C. gradable D. binary
11. Which is the best presupposition of the following sentence:
I wish I could stop smoking.
A. Smoking was my favourite. B. It was difficult to break the habit of smoking.
C. I tried giving up smoking but I failed earlier. D. I didn’t smoke .

12. What sense relation is there between sentence 1 and sentence 2?

S1. Her life spanned years of incredible change for women as they gained more rights than ever before.

S2. She lived through the exciting era of women's liberation.

A. S1 contradicts S2 B. S2 entails S1 C. S2 paraphrases S1 D. S1 presupposes S2

13. Of what degree is the predicate proud in They were proud of their clever child?
A. three B. four C. two D. one
14. Which of the following is NOT a correct statement about sense?
Sense is defined as
A. its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related expressions in the same language.
B. its relations to other expressions in the language system.
C. Only words that may be used to refer have sense.
D. All words in a language may have sense, but only some words have reference.
15. You look up the word tiger in the dictionary and find a written definition accompanied by a picture of
a tiger. In this case it could be argued that the dictionary relies on …….
A. reference B. both sense and reference
C. sense D. none of the above
16. Which is NOT true about the two sets below?
Set 1: niece, daughter, sister Set 2: nun, woman, girl
A. The words in set 1 are “relative” whereas the words in set 2 are “non-relative”.
B. The words in set 1 and set 2 are all “female”.
C. set 1 and set 2 share the same semantic feature of "human being"
D. words in set 2 are superordinates of words in set 1
16. What type of co-reference is used in the sentence There are two main components in coffee: soluble
and insoluble substances. The former are the caffeine, sugar and proteins, the latter the oils and
colloids.’
A. cataphora B. anaphora C. zero anaphora D. none of the above
17. Which of the following is NOT entailed from the sentence David saw a big mouse?
A. Someone saw a big mouse. B. Someone saw an animal.
C. David saw an animal. D. David saw a big animal.
18. What is the sense relation between the words lift and elevator?
A. Stylistic synonym B. Dialectal synonym
C. Phraseological synonym D. Semantic synonym

19. What is the sense relation between the two sentences (1) & (2)?

Sentence 1: Mary is not happy although she's the only child in the family.

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Sentence 2: This is because Mary's always jealous with her sister.

A. 1 contradicts 2 B. 1 presupposes 2 C. 1 entails 2 D. 1 paraphrases 2

20. The subject in .............. is not referring expression.because it does not refer to any particular
individual in the world.
A. an equative sentence B. a generic sentence
C. a declarative sentence D. an analytic sentence
21. In which of the following cases, NOT all the underlined words are deitic?
A. We did it ten years ago. B. I met this weird guy the other day
C. You're that nice to me. D. Move the table from now!
22. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
A. If a sentence X entails a sentence Y and sentence Y also entails sentence X, then X and Y are
paraphrases of each other.
B. All contradictions are paraphrases of each other.
C. Given two sentences, identical except that one has a predicate X where the other has a predicate Y,
where X is a hyponym of Y, then the sentence containing X is a paraphrase of the sentence containing Y.
D. All analytic sentences are paraphrases of each other.

23. Which of the following pairs contradicts each other?

A. The pen is on the table / The table is under the picture
B. Tom is worse than Mary in Maths/Mary is better than Tom in Math.
C. Joe is the father of Jim / Jim is the father of Joe
D. Not many countries have rivers / Some countries have rivers.
24. “Bachelors are UNMARRIED” is an example of
A. simplicity B. syntheticity C. analyticity D. contradiction
25. Hyponymy is defined as
A. relationship between two predicates that have the same sense
B. a sense relation between predicates such that the meaning of one predicate is included in the meaning of
the other
C. any expression used in an utterance to refer to something or someone
D. a word or phrase that has two or more synonyms that are not themselves synonyms of each other
26. The sentence Young Juan’s cat is not clever could be identified as:
A. either analytic or synthetic B. analytical
C. contradictory D. synthetic
27. In which of the following cases, A presupposes B?
A. A: John saw two cats in the box.
B: There were two cats in the box.
B. A: Every student has finished the homework.
B: Every American student has finished the homework.
C. A: John realizes that Amy is a ghost.
B: Amy is a ghost.
D. A: Everyone who got at least three A’s must skip the next assignment.
B: Everyone who got at least five A’s must skip the next assignment.
28. The predicator between used in the sentence Tam Ky is between Quang Ngai and Danang is an
example of:
A. either two or three - place predicate B. two-place predicate
C. three-place predicate D. one-place predicate
29. Which of the following is contradictory?
A. These people should stay in this place – Those people should leave this place.
B. These stripes are vertical – These stripes are not horizontal.
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 C. These people come late – Those people come early.
D. These students are inside – These students are outside.

30. Which one of the following sentences is NOT likely to be ambiguous?

A. He had a date with a girl from the country that he had never seen
B. The people who visited us sometimes drank the milk.
C. I met the girl in the car which I loved dearly.
D. We sadly saw March pass away.
31. What is the sense relation between the two sentences: Kim is Olga’s aunt and
Olga is Kim’s niece?
A. Paraphrase B. Entailment C. Presupposition D. Contradictory
32. Which of the following sentences doesn’t have the same propositional content as the others?
A. Bachelors prefer blonde-haired girls. B. Girls with blonde hair prefer bachelors.
C. Unmarried men prefer blonde-haired girls. D. Girls with blonde hair are prefered by bachelors.
33. Which of the bold words are examples of polysemy?
A. Jim took me to the court and we had an interesting game / Jim took me to the court where he was
working as a prosecutor.
B. Arms bend at the elbow/ Germany sells arms to Saudi Arabia.
C. Mike gave me a punch on the nose/ Mike gave me a fruit punch.
D. We arrived at the bus station late but the coach was late, too / We arrived at the sports centre late
but the coach was late, too.
34. The referring expressions Barack Obama and Donald Trump are related to the term President of the
US as follows:
A. The referring expressions Barack Obama and Donald Trump are used as variable reference for
President of the US.
B. The referring expressions Barack Obama and Donald Trump are used as constant reference for
President of the US.
C. The referring expressions Barack Obama and Donald Trump are used as the hyponyms of
President of the US.
D. The referring expressions Barack Obama and Donald Trump are superordinates of President of the
US.
35. Which one of the following pairs of predicates is multiple incompatible antonyms?
A. borrow – lend B. spring-autumn C. lawyer – client D. male – female

36. Which of the following most appropriately DOES NOT describe the reference?
A. Reference is the relationship between utterances and the world.
B. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and things in the world.
C. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things in a particular
context of the utterance.
D. Reference is the relationship between the sense properties of a predicate.

37. Which of the following is not referentially ambiguous?

A. Mary was asked to send the things and go to the hospital afterwards and she did it.
B. The president told the chairman of cabinet that he will meet all ministers of state.
C. The boy told his father the theft. He was very upset.
D. People are becoming unemployed because now a computer can do their work faster and better.

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 38. Which of the following is an example of the statement: “Some sentences which contain no
ambiguous words can be ambiguous.”
A. In big cities, people supply drugs to innocent children until the children get addicted.
B. Only from Monday to Thursday the club will open to members.
C. He buried the knife he found in the garden.
D. I don’t like the case in which goods can be stored or moved.

39. Which of the following is a predicate?

A. Dusty B. Smith C. You D. But
40. Which of the following does the sentence John is no longer a millionaire presuppose?
A. John used to be a millionaire B. John was not rich.
C. John was so rich that he didn’t dream anything D. none of the above

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