ĐỀ THI KẾT THÚC HỌC PHẦN HỌC KỲ I - 2022-2023

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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 shows the argument(s) used in this declarative sentence”?
Bill told his girlfriend an interesting story about the victims living in the refugee camp.
A. Bill, his girlfriend, an interesting story about the victims living in the refugee camp
B. Bill, told, his girlfriend, an interesting story about the victims living in the refugee camp
C. Bill, his girlfriend, an interesting story, the victims, living in the refugee camp
D. Bill, his girlfriend, an interesting story about the victims

2. Which of the following is an example of polysemy?

A. Yesterday he gave me a ring and I promised to wear it forever. / Yesterday he gave me a ring but I
was too busy to answer it.
B. Tears of gratitude shone in his eyes/ His look tears my heart.
C. Mike gave me a punch on the nose/ Mike gave me a fruit punch.
D. He has served his time in prison / This old bike has served me well.
3. The predicator behind used in the sentence Is that your shoe behind the couch? is an example of:
A. four - place predicate B. two-place predicate
C. three-place predicate D. one-place predicate
4. Which underlined words of the following cases is an example of social deixis?
A. We did ten years ago. B. I met this weird guy yesterday
C. Do you like the White House, Your Majesty! D. Move the table from now!
5. Which of the following cases of deixis is mentioned in the statement below?
This kind of deixis places the perspective of the speaker with respect to the past, the present and the
future.
A. spatial B. personal
C. temporal D. social
6. Which is the presupposition of the following sentence:
Tom has stopped eating meat.
A. Tom never eats meat.
B. It is true that Tom had eaten meat before.
C. Tom used to be a vegetarian.
D. Tom has problem with meat.
7. Which of the following does the sentence John forgot to call Mary presuppose?
A. John used to call Mary. B. John was supposed to call Mary.
C. John was absent minded that he didn’t call Mary D. none of the above

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8. What type of co-reference is used in the sentence If you want some, there's coffee in the pot.
A. cataphora B. anaphora C. zero anaphora D. none of the above
9. 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!
10. Which example below is a case of antonym in this definition?
A gradable antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings lie on a
continuous spectrum.
A. lawyer/client B. legal/illegal
C. car/truck D. friendly/unfriendly
11. 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.

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

Sentence 1: Mary is the eldest child in a big family, so she's hard-wroking.

Sentence 2: Mary has younger brother and sister.

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

13. 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 only child of Jim / Jim has 2 children.
D. Not many countries have rivers / Some countries have rivers.
14. 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 – Those stripes are not horizontal.
C. These people come late – Those people come early.
D. These students are hard-working – These students are lazy.
15. The referring expressions the current President of the US in Joe Biden is the current President of the
US is used:
A. as the variable reference
B. as constant reference
C. as the hyponym of President of the US
D. as the superordinate of President of the US.
16. Which of the following sentences doesn’t have the same propositional content as the others?
A. Spinsters prefer bachelors. B. Unmarried women prefer bachelors.
C. Unmarried men ared prefered by spinsters. D. Unmarried women are prefered by bachelors.
17. The sentence Young Juan’s cat is not clever has one presupposition as follows:
A. Young Juan has a clever dog. B. Young Juan’s dog is cleverer than his cat.
C. Young Juan has a cat. D. Young Juan cannot tame his cat.

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18. The sentence A bee stung me on the neck yesterday is not a generic sentence because
A. The subject of the sentence does not refer to any particular individual bee in the world
B. The subject of the sentence refers to a particular individual bee in the world
C. The verb of the sentence is used in simple past tense to talk a bout a past definite act
D. answers B and C are correct
19. Which of the following is an example of the statement: “Some sentences which contain no
ambiguous words can be ambiguous.”
A. In big cities, supplying drugs to innocent children is illegal.
B. Only from Monday to Thursday the club will open to members.
C. Flying plane can be dangerous.
D. I don’t like the case in which goods can be stored or moved.
20. Which of the following is NOT the hyponym of the superordinate virtue?
A. humility B. loyalty C. modesty D. honesty
21. In which of the following cases, 1 does not entails 2?
A. 1: Alan lives in Toronto.
2: Alan lives in Canada.
B. 1: Alan lives in Canada.
2: Alan lives in Toronto.
C. 1: Lee kissed Kim passionately.
2: Lee kissed Kim.
D. 1: Ben has been murdered.
2: Ben is dead.

22. Which of the following is referentially ambiguous?

A. Pavarotti is a big opera star.
B. Americans make more telephone calls than Canadians.
C. The crane that I bought yesterday was dead.
D. The best actor on the planet is Maryline Monroe.
23. 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
24. Which of the following statements is NOT 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. The falsity of a contradiction follows from the sense of the words in this sentence.
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 can presuppose the sentence containing Y.
D. A tautology (e.g. women are always women) is an analytic sentence.
25. 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.
26. Of what degree is the predicate put in They put their flag on the moon?
A. three B. four C. two D. one

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

Sentence 1. Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay and they can consume 75 pounds of food a day.

Sentence 2. A giraffe can eat up to 75 pounds of Acacia leaves and hay every day.

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

28. Which can be the implication(s) 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. Answers A & B are correct

29. Which word or phrase in the sentence The fat girl stabbed the man with the sharp knife is most
likely to cause ambiguity?
A. the man B. observed
C. the fat girl D. with the sharp knife
30. 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. My sister saw a old bat.
D. I invited the person with the microphone.
32. 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.
33. Which one of the following pairs of predicates is multiple incompatible antonyms?
A. the earth – the moon B. borrow – lend C. lawyer – client D. male – female
34. What is the sense relation between the two sentences: Kim is Olga’s aunt and
Kim’s is Olga’s niece?
A. Paraphrase B. Entailment C. Presupposition D. Contradictory
35. Which one of the following sentences is NOT likely to be ambiguous?
A. Did you see the film last weekend?
B. Did you enjoy it?
C. Did you see the latest superhero film at the cinema during the weekend of the 4/5th July?
D. Did you feel satisfied with the canteen?

36. “Tom is a bachelor” is an example of

A. simplicity B. syntheticity C. analyticity D. contradiction
37. What is the sense relation between the words dollar and buck?
A. Stylistic synonym B. Dialectal synonym
C. Phraseological synonym D. Semantic synonym

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38. 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

39. What is the case of semantic change in the following example?

meat, whose original meaning was 'food’ now is restricted to the meaning ‘the flesh of animals or birds to
eat’
A. narrowing of meaning B. broadening of meaning
C. degrading (perjoration) D. elevation
40. What is the case of semantic change in the following example?
nice, whose original meaning was 'stupid’ now is used to mean good, pleasant, attractive
A. narrowing of meaning B. broadening of meaning
C. degrading (perjoration) D. elevation

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