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1. Which of the following has the correct entailment?
a. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill saw a boy.
b. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill didn’t see a person.
c. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw a person.
d. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill didn’t see a boy.
2 . Which of the following involves a set of things?
a. sense
b. prototype
c. reference
d. extension
3. The men John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan are related to the term President of the US as follows
a. Kennedy and Reagan are hyponyms of President of the US
b. Kennedy and Reagan are part of the extension of President of the US
c. Kennedy and Reagan are stereotypes of President of the US
d. Kenndy and Reagan are superordinates of President of the US
4. Which of the following is the synthetic sentence?
a. Bachelors are innocent men.
b. Bachelors are not human being.
c. Bachelors are never married.
d. Bachelors are male.
5. Which of the following expressions of the sentence The present Prime Minister of Viet Nam is Nguyen
Tan Dung DOES NOT have constant reference?
a. Nguyen Tan Dung
b. Viet Nam
c. the present Prime Minister of Viet Nam
d. a and b
6. Which of the following is NOT independent of circumstance or particular occasions or topic of
conversation?
a. sense
b. variable reference
c. constant reference
d. extension
7. Which of the following can be in a particular regional accent?
a. sentence
b. utterance
c. proposition
d. a and c
8. Which of the following is the contradiction?
a. Bachelors are male.
b. Bachelors are not reptiles.
c. Bachelors are not human being.
d. Bachelors are lonely.
9. Which of the following expressions is proposition?
a. My sick cat that is lying on the armchair over there
b. John Lennon who was assassinated in 1980 by a madman
c. A man is walking along the street.
d. A lovely cat (not understood as an elliptical sentence)
10. Which of the following expressions of the sentence Osama bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan is the
predicator?
a. Osama bin Laden
b. Afghanistan
c. hide
d. a and b
11. Which of the following utterances would be the most appropriate?
a. Please get me a cup of coffee.
b. Please take me a cup of coffee.
c. Please take him to me.
d. Please go to me with a cup of coffee.
12. Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?
a. The bear never eats the dead body.
b. The bear is the animal that typically hibernates during winter.
c. The bear in that cage cannot swim.
d. The bear likes honey of the bee.
13. Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)
(A) Fester stole 5 dollars.
(B) Fester took 5 dollars.
a. (A) and (B) are paraphrases.
b. (A) entails (B)
c. (A) and (B) same set of entailments
d. all of the above
14. Which of the following DOES NOT refer to the thing or person being talked about in the context of the
utterance?
a. variable reference
b. extension
c. reference
d. none of the above
15. Which of the following DOES NOT mentions a connection of language to the world?
a. extension
b. prototype
c. stereotype
d. all of the above
16. Which of the following has the abstract specification pertaining to a typical example?
a. extension
b. prototype
c. stereotype
d. all of the above
17. Which of the following is an example of the statement:
Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous
a. Flying plane can be dangerous.
b. You’re so kind too me.
c. You’re that kind.
d. Visiting relatives can be boring.
18. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
a. love - hate
b. hot - cold
c. ugly - beautiful
d. pass - fail
19. Which of the following is correct?
a. Analyticity is a sense property of predicates
b. Contradiction is a sense relation between predicates
c. Syntheticity is a sense property of a sentence.
d. Contradiction is a sense relation between sentences
20. Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?
a. Mary broke all the dishes and Mary didn’t break all the plates.
b. Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes.
c. Mary hid all the plates and Mary did not conceal all the dishes.
d. both a and c
21. Which of the following is an example of the statement:
Some sentences which contain ambiguous words can be ambiguous
a. It’s a colorful ball.
b. He gave her a gold ring yesterday.
c. He is really so kind to me.
d. I sawed a rotten branch of the ash tree in my garden.
22. The expression William Shakespeare in the sentence William Shakespeare is one of the greatest
playwrights in English Literature has the constant reference because
a. it occurs in an equative sentence
b. it can be used to refer to different potential referents
c. it never refers to different things or different person
d. it is not a referring expression
23. Which of the following cases has the universe of discourse as the real world?
a. Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, the dragon will come, boy.
b. Mother to child: Barking dog seldom bites, son.
c. Mother to child: Santa Claus will bring you a lot of toys.
d. Mother to child: Don’t follow that barking dog because he is a witchdoctor.
24. Which of the following pairs of expressions binary?
a. same - different
b. give - take
c. conceal - reveal
d. beautiful - ugly
25. Which of the following is analytic?
a. The pentagon is six- sided
b. A horse is a not mammal.
c. My cat is not an animal
d. My snake is reptile
26. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
a. love - hate
b. far - near
c. cat - dog
d. easy - difficult
27. Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate?
a. daisy - sun flower
b. son - father
c. give - take
d. kill - cause to die
28. Which of the following has the relation between pairs of predicates necessarily symmetric?
a. entailment
b. paraphrase
c. synonymy
d. hyponymy
29. Which of the following most appropriately DOES NOT describe the reference?
a. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things in a particular
context of the utterance.
b. Reference is the relationship between utterances and the world.
c. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and things in the world.
d. Reference is the relationship between the sense properties of a predicate
30. Which of the following expressions of the sentence My son moved to Danang in 1997 has the variable
reference?
a. My son
b. Danang
c. move
d. in
31. Which of the following is a correct statement about sense?
a. The sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related
expressions in the same language.
b. If two expressions have the same reference, they always have the same sense.
c. All words in a language may have reference, but only some words may have sense.
d. The sense of an expression is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an utterance.
32. Which of the following sentences indicating that the speaker is NOT in the hospital?
a. Please bring my son to the hospital for me.
b. Please come to the hospital with my son.
c. Please go to the hospital with me.
d. Please take me away from the hospital.
33. A feature of a noun phrase to indicate the only thing of its kind in the context of the utterance is
known as:
a. deixis
b. constant reference
c. definiteness
d. variable reference
34. Which of the following helps the hearer to identify the referent of a noun phrase as the only thing of its
kind in the context of the utterance?
a. Indefinite article a + NP
b. A certain + NP
c. Definite article the + NP
d. Bare NP
35. The sentence Fred said that he would pay me on Friday is
a. lexically ambiguous
b. structurally ambiguous
c. an analytic sentence
d. all of the above
36. The predicate put used in the sentence John put the pen on the table with a smile is
a. one-place predicate
b. two place-predicate
c. three-place predicate
d. none of the above
37. Which of the following pairs has the same set of entailment?
a. John and Mary love each other.
Mary and Tom love each other
b. Visiting relatives can be boring.
It can be boring to visit relatives.
c. Bill killed Tom.
Tom died.
d. Tom loves Mary.
Mary loves Tom.
38. The pair far and near are gradable antonyms because
a. both of them can combine with very
b. both of them can combine with How (much)?
c. both of them can be used in comparison construction
d. all of the above mentioned
39. The predicates pass and fail are binary anonyms because
a. they describes the same relationship when mentioned in the opposite order
b. between them exhaust all the relevant possibilities
c. both pass and fail belong to the open-ended English achievement system
d. these two predicates are at opposite ends of a continuous scale of values
40. The word earth is an example of polysemy because
a. its two senses (of our planet and of soil) both contain the concept of land
b. earth (of our planet) and earth (of soil) are identical in pronunciation
c. earth (of our planet) and earth (of soil) are identical in spelling
d. none of the above
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1. Which of the following is not correct?

a. Semantics is the study of language meaning

b. Pragmatics is the study of language use

c. Linguistics is the study of all dialects

d. Linguistics is the study of language

2. Which of the following does not belong to linguistics?

a. English pronunciation b. phonology c. morphology d. pragmatics

3. Which of the following is correct about semantics?

a. Semantics is the study of the relation between language and user

b. Semantics is the study of how a speaker uses the language

c. Semantics is the study of the literal meaning of language

d. Semantics is an independent subject

4. Which of the following is not correct about pragmatics?

a. Pragmatics is the study of the speaker’s meaning

b. Pragmatics is the study of the linguistic meaning of language

c. Pragmatics is the study of how a speaker uses the language

d. Pragmatics is the study of the meaning of language in a particular situation

5. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. The objective of semantics is the non-literal meaning of language

b. The objective of linguistics is the language

c. The means to convey the meaning in semantics is the sentence

d. The means to convey the meaning in pragmatics is the utterance

6. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. Pragmatics studies the relationship between language and objects

b. Pragmatics studies the relationship between language and the user

c. Pragmatics studies the speaker’s meaning

d. Pragmatics studies how and what for the speaker uses the language

7. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. A sentence is a group of words linked by grammar to convey a complete meaning

b. A sentence must contain at least one finite verb

c. A sentence is a group of words out of context

d. An utterance is a group of words context dependent

8. Which of the following statements is not true about utterance?

a. The meaning of an utterance is the meanings of the constituent words

b. An utterance is context bound / dependent

c. The meaning of an utterance depends on the situation in which it is uttered

d. An utterance is a sentence said in a particular situation

9. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. It makes sense to talk of the time and place of a proposition.

b. It is meaningless to talk of the time and place of a sentence.

c. A proposition must be meaningful

d. It makes sense to talk of the truth of a sentence or an utterance.

10. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. The pragmatic meaning is the meaning of the words in the sentence

b. The meaning of an utterance varies with the situation in which it is said

c. The semantic meaning is the meaning of the words in the sentence

d. The meaning of a sentence is the semantic meaning

11. The following pair: Dr. Findlay killed Janet

Dr. Findlay caused Janet to die consists of_____.

a. 2 utterances; 2 propositions

b. 2 sentences; 1 proposition

c. 2 sentences; 2 propositions

d. 2 utterances; 1 proposition

12. The following pair “Paul opened the door”

“The door was opened by Paul” consists of_____.

a. 2 utterances; 1 proposition

b. 2 sentences; 1 proposition

c. 2 utterances; 2 propositions

d. 2 sentences; 2 propositions

13. The following pair “Paul loves Mary”

“Paul & Mary love each other” consists of_____.

a. 2 utterances; 2 propositions

b. 2 sentences; 1 proposition

c. 2 sentences; 2 propositions

d. 2 utterances; 1 proposition

14. The following pair They loaded hay onto the truck

The truck was loaded with hay consists of_____.

a. 2 utterances; 1 proposition

b. 2 sentences; 1 proposition

c. 2 sentences; 2 propositions

d. 2 utterances; 2 propositions
15. Which of the following statements is true?

a. The pragmatic meaning cannot be defined by the sum of semantic features.

b. The semantic meaning of a word cannot be analyzed into semantic components.

c. A semantic property can exist in the meanings of different words of the same part of speech

d. Semantic features are the meaningful units of a word.

16. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. A lexical field is a group of words sharing the same part of speech.

b. A semantic field is a family of words that share the same semantic feature.

c. There are different ways to organize semantically related words into lexical fields.

d. A lexical field is a group of semantically related words.

17. Which of the following semantic features does not belong to “horse”?

a. [+domestic]

b. [+animal]

c. [+male]

d. [+having a tail]

18. Which of the following semantic properties does not belong to “mouse”?

a. [+domestic]

b. [+having legs]

c. [+having a tail]

d. [+animal]

19. The relationship between ‘bachelor’ NG I CH A VƯỜ Ư Ợ and ‘spinster’NG I CH A ƯỜ Ư

CHỒỒNG is_____.

a. hyponym b. hypernym c. hyponymy d. incompatibility

20. The relationship between ‘cock GÀ TRỒỐNG’ and ‘stallion’ NG A GIỒỐNG Ựis_____.

a. hyponym b. hypernym c. hyponymy d. incompatibility

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1. Which of the following is not a type of reference?

a. referent b. variable reference c. constant reference d. same reference

2. The type of reference in which the referent varies with speaker is_____.

a. constant reference b. same reference c. variable reference d. no reference

3. The type of reference in which different expressions are used to refer to the same object is_____.

a. constant reference b. variable reference c. same reference d. no reference

4. The type of reference in which the same expression always refers to the same object is_____.

a. same reference b. variable reference c. constant reference d. no reference

5. When an expression is meaningful but does not refer to anything, it is said to have_____.

a. constant reference b. variable reference c. no reference d. same reference

6. Which of the following statements is true?

a. All words in a language are used to refer but only some have sense.

b. If two expressions have the same referent, they always have the same sense.

c. Sense is the relationship between expressions of the same meaning.

d. Reference is the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression.

7. An expression used to refer to someone or something general is____.

a. not a referring expression b. variable reference c. referring expression d. same reference

8. The underlined part in ‘the boy standing at the bus stop’ has / is____.

a. variable reference b. same reference c. referring expression d. a&c

9. The underlined parts in ‘John is the boy standing at a bus stop’ is / has____.

a. same reference b. referring expression c. constant reference d. no reference

10. The underlined part in ‘He would have survived from the air crash with a parachute’ is____.

a. referring expression b. not a referring expression

11. The underlined part in ‘My friend is a math teacher’ is_____.

a. a referring expression b. not a referring expression

12. The underlined part in ‘Silk Black is a famous singer from Tay Nguyen’ is / has ____.

a. co-reference b. constant reference c. same reference d. variable reference

13. The underlined part in ‘I’ll buy a car to go to work’ is____.

a. not a referring expression b. a referring expression

14. The underlined part in ‘Yesterday, I sent my friend a gif on his birthday’ is____.

a. not a referring expression b. a referring expression

15. The underlined part in ‘The boys wandering in the street at night may be street children’ is____.

a. a referring expression b. not a referring expression

16. The underlined part in ‘He fell off the horse, wounded by an arrow’ is / has____.

a. variable reference b. same reference c. referring expression d. a&c

17. The underlined part in ‘You cannot kill a tiger with an arrow’ is_____.

a. not a referring expression b. a referring expression

18. The underlined part in ‘You can go abroad if you have friends overseas’ is_____.

a. referring expression b. not a referring expression

19. The underlined part in ‘John is so rich. Oh, he’s just got a windfall ’ is_____.

a. referring expression b. not a referring expression

20. The underlined parts in ‘He is an English teacher at the O.U’ is / has____.

a. same reference b. referring expression c. constant reference d. no reference