FINAL TEST FINAL TEST Time allowance 60 minutes The test has 50 questions Please write your answers in your answer sheet Name Group Total score Score Questions 1 5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) 1 Theoretically, the number of words in a noun phrase is not limited 2 Tense is a universal, non linguistic concept with three divisions past, present and future 3 Conjuncts are connective, therefore, they are integrated in clause structure 4 A non finite clause acting.
FINAL TEST Time allowance: 60 minutes The test has 50 questions Please write your answers in your answer sheet Name: Group: Total score: Score: Questions 1-5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) Theoretically, the number of words in a noun phrase is not limited Tense is a universal, non-linguistic concept with three divisions: past, present and future Conjuncts are connective, therefore, they are integrated in clause structure A non-finite clause acting as post modification is in fact a reduced form of a relative clause Clauses beginning with a coordinator or a conjunct can be moved in front of the preceding clause without producing unacceptable sentences or changing the relationship of the clauses Questions 6-10 Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS One kind of embedding that occurs when one clause is made of a constituent of another clause is described as refers to the function of a part of a phrase or clause which follows a word, and completes the specification of a meaning relationship which that word implies E.g.: a, We considered him our leader, or b, All sales are subject to tax The kind of reference (i.e linguistics or situational) a particular noun phrase has is typically realized by a set of closed-class items, or , which occur before the noun action as head of the noun phrase E.g.: a bicycle vs the bicycle A simple positive sentence is negated by inserting the clause negator ‘not’ between the operator and the 10 The sentence “Either the strikers or the boss misunderstood the claim.” shows that the concord is applied to this case Questions 11-20: The New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new calendar year, and the year count increment of a specific calendar (a) The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on January (b) With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the January date became global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (e.g., China and India) (c) Many people even consider January a national holiday (d) Many cities across the world celebrate the New Year (e) The celebrations usually include a firework's display, and other festivities (f) London, for example, organizes a major fireworks display along the River Thames, followed by a parade on New Year's Day (g) (Adapted from Wikipedia) For questions 11-16, read the article and identify the clause type of each sentence in the article Write your answers in the numbered blanks in the answer sheet The first sentence has been done for you as an example Example: Sentence (a) SVC 11 Sentence b 13 Sentence d 15 Sentence f ………… 12 Sentence c ………… 14 Sentence e ………… 16 Sentence g ………… ………… ………… For questions 17-20: Read the article again and state the semantic role of the following sentence elements Write your answers in the numbered blanks in the answer sheet The first has been done for you as an example Example: The New Year Temporal subject 17 global (sentence c) _ 18 many people (sentence d) _ 19 The celebrations (sentence f) _ 20 a major fireworks display (sentence g) _ Questions 21-24: State these following sentences are Simple (S), Complex (CX), Compound (CP), or Complex Compound (CC) 21 Angry bloggers and tweeters complained that they had been late for work, and were risking missing planes and trains due to iPhone’s malfunctioned built-in alarm clock 22 “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” – these famous words have immortalized the iconic meeting between the young ambitious journalist Henry Stanley and the great Irish explorer David Livingstone – probably the first global celebrity ever 23 Although Johnson was one of the richest people in the world, she counted every cent and spent as little as possible 24 A successful telecommuting program requires a management style which is based on results and not on close scrutiny of individual employees 21 22 23 24 …………… …………… …………… …………… Questions 25-26 Negate the following sentence Then interpret it in two ways by indicating the scope and focus of negation “He came into the room because of the lion.” Negated sentence:….…………… ……………………………………………………… Interpretations: 25…………………………………………………………………………………… ……… 26.……… … ……………………………………………………………………………… Questions 27 - 31 Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding blank in the answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G), Specific (S), Unique (U) Question ZERO has been done for you as an example Example:(0) G The chemistry of 0the world's oceans is changing at (27) a rate not seen for 65 million years, with far-reaching implications for (28) marine biodiversity and food security, according to 29 a new United Nations study released Thursday "(30) Environmental Consequences of Ocean Acidification," published by the U.N Environmental Program UNEP)," warns that (31) some sea organisms including coral and shellfish will find it increasingly difficult to survive, as acidification shrinks the minerals needed to form their skeletons (Adapted from www.cnn.com) 27 28 29 30 31 Questions 32-33 State whether the underlined is Restrictive (R) or Nonrestrictive (N) 32 It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster - the period of soya beans and Basic English 33 My friend Alice is the most honest people you could ever see in this country Questions 34-40 Identify whether the underlined are Adjunct (A), Conjunct (C), Style Disjunct (SD), or Attitudinal Disjunct (AD) 34 Obviously, she is not the smartest in the class 35 You can tell from their line that they are totally exhausted, however 36 The principal understandably got furious when he was informed of the incident 37 Could you please tell me what is that thing you’ve saved me from? 38 This will certainly lead to assumptions that he was the one behind all this mess 39 I have almost completely forgotten the incident 40 Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them Questions 41-42: Identify whether the underlined is Segregatory (S) or Combinatory (C) coordination 41 Margaret and I won the best performance in the Pair Skater Championship 42 She wore a black and white jacket Questions 43-45: Underline the focus of the following sentences 43 You may not go home early tonight (You are allowed to stay out late.) 44 All cats don’t like water (Some do) 45 I didn’t leave home because I was afraid of my father (I was afraid of my mother.) Questions 46-47: Interpret this ambiguous sentence in TWO different ways “Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, Ms Janie on Friday.” 46…………………………………………………………………………………… …………… 47…………………………………………………………………………………… …………… Questions 48-49 Put all the items given to make a grammatically meaningful complex noun phrase 48 a wide and small man stout shifty frog-mouth a with eyes 49 shock a little gasp of shrill Question 50: The ellipsis in the sentence below is faulty Rewrite it correctly An example has been done for you Example: Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and healthcare Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and poor healthcare/ and poor education and healthcare While one does not exclude the possibility a given speaker may choose to speak in a national standard at one moment and in a regional dialect the next – and possibly even switch from one national standard to another – the presumption has been that an individual adopts one of the varieties so far discussed as his permanent form of English ANSWER KEY T F subordination F T complementation F determiners predication 10 proximity 11 SVA 12 SVC 13 SVOC 14 SVO 15 SVO 16 SVO 17 Resulting Attribute 18 Agentive Subject 19 Eventive Subject 20 Effected Object 21 CC 22 CP 23 CC 24 S Negated sentence: He didn't come into the room because of the lion Interpretations: 25 Because there was a lion, he didn't dare to come into the room 26 He came into the room not because of the lion but because of another reason 27 S 28 G 32 N 33 R 34 AD 35 C 29 S 36 AD 30 U 31 S 37 A 38 A 39 A 40 AD 41 C 42 C 43 early 44 All 45 father 46 Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, and ask Ms Janie to take Mr Tom around the city on Friday 47 Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, and ask Mr Jack to take Ms Janie around the city on Friday 48 a stout and small man with a wide frog-mouth and shifty eyes 49 a little shrill gasp of shock 50 While one does not exclude the possibility THAT a given speaker may choose to speak in a national standard at one moment and in a regional dialect the next – and possibly even switch from one national standard to another – the presumption has been that an individual adopts one of the varieties so far discussed as his permanent form of English FINAL TEST Time allowance: 60 minutes The test has 45 questions Please write your answers in your answer sheet Name: Group: Total score: Score: _ _ Questions 1-5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) Inflectional morphemes are randomly distributed and only occur with some members of a word class Closed system comprises a limited number of members The word “option” is formed by adding the suffix “ion” to the base “opt.” All transitive verbs allow a passive transformation of the sentence In most cases, adverbials are optional in clause structure, except when they stand after an intransitive verb or complex transitive verb Questions 6-8 Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS “Break it on, get away with, look up to” are called verbs is the manner in which a verbal action is experienced or regarded with respect to time and aspect are intermingled We cannot speak about one without mentioning the other Unlike Russian or French, English does not have any morphological feature that helps distinguish 10 The sentence “The audience are raising their hands to signify their approval now.” shows that the notional is applied to this case Questions 11-23 Read the passage and then the tasks that follow (a) Like brainstorming, freewriting is done nonstop (b) It occurs intensely for a short period of time (c) We freewriting without worrying about audience (d) Although freewriting will produce much that is unusable, it can also produce much that will be surprisingly important, attesting to the notion that our subconscious minds have enormous amounts of valuable information (e) We can get some use out of this information, and (f) it may very well give us a focus for the rest of our work on the subject (g) Sometimes when we find an approach to a subject through brainstorming, freewriting unlocks a wealth of ideas to pursue A Identify the clause patterns of the following sentences by writing: SVC, SV, SVO, etc 11 Sentence a: 12 Sentence b: 13 Sentence c: 14 Sentence d: 15 Sentence e: 16 Sentence f: 17 Sentence g: B Identify the semantic roles of the underlined words in the reading passage 18 It: 19 freewriting: 20 our subconscious minds: 21 us: 22 we: 23 an approach: Questions 24-28 Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding blank in the answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G), Specific (S), Unique (U) Question ZERO has been done for you as an example Example:(0) S (Specific reference) Some cultures (0) have clashed with less powerful neighbours (24) only to find that over time their culture became heavily influenced by these subordinates (25), like the Romans (26) by the Greeks (27) In this way, the original meaning (28) of an aspect of cultural behavior may be lost in history and may originally have been part of a belief system very different from that which prevails in the culture today 10 24 25 26 27 28 Questions 29-33 State these following sentences are Simple (S), Complex (CX), Compound (CP), or Complex Compound (CC) 29 Open word classes which consist of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs allow new members but closed word classes like prepositions, conjunctions and determiners seldom 30 In English, words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another and new words be created 31 A verb is said to be regular if its base form does not change when inflections are added to create new forms 32 An adjective phrase can consist of an adjective followed by a complement, usually a prepositional phrase, or by a "that" clause 33 In English, when both clauses of the sentence are offered as new information, they are usually equal syntactically and semantically Questions 34-35 Negate the following sentence Then interpret it in two ways by indicating the scope and focus of negation “I find one present useful.” Negated sentence:….…………… ……………………………………………………… Interpretations: 34………………………………………………………………………………………… …35.……… … ……………………………………………………………………………… Questions 36-37 State whether the underlined is Restrictive (R) or Nonrestrictive (N) 36 All the tickets for the 3-D movie Avartar were sold out a month ago 37 He has an idea that the earth is warming Questions 38-42 Identify whether the underlined are Adjunct (A), Conjunct (C), Style Disjunct (SD), or Attitudinal Disjunct (AD) 11 38 If necessary, repeat the procedure 39 No one seriously questions the need for language students to develop a good control of grammar 40 Seriously, sometimes you have to put grammar aside 41 Fortunately, grammar- and spell-checkers can help you enormously in your writing 42 Adverbs, on the other hand, usually modify verbs Questions 43 Put all the items given to make a grammatically meaningful complex noun phrase good neglected several old the square houses two first stone red houses or plantation of Jamaican big …………………………………………………………………………………………… … Questions 44-45 Identify whether the underlined is a Combinatory (C) or Segregatory (S) coordination? 44 Jim and Carter met for lunch 45 Jim and Carter are a pair of crooks 12 ASWER KEYS F T F F 5.F prepositional phrasal 11 SVC 16 SVOO aspect 12 SV 17 SVO tense 13 SVO gender 14 SVO 10 concord 15 SVOA 18 It: Empty It 21 us: Oi recipient 19 freewriting: Od effected 22 we: S agentive 20 our subconscious minds: S recipient 23 an approach: Od affected 24 G 25 S 26 G 27 G 28 S 29 CP 30 CP 31 CX 32 S 33 CC Negated sentence: I not find one present useful 34 I find none of the presents useful 35 I find all presents useful, except one 36 N 37 R 38 A 39 A 40 SD 41 AD 42 C 43 Several of the first two good big old square red neglected Jamaican stone houses or plantation houses 44 C 45 C 13 FINAL TEST Time allowance: 60 minutes The test has 40 questions Please write your answers in your answer sheet Name: Group: Total score: Score: _ _ Questions 1-5: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) Basically, a lexical item and its meaning have no arbitrary relationship The order of morphemes in a word is that a derivational morpheme is closer to the root than an inflectional one Broadly speaking, nouns and adjectives can be characterized as stative in the sense that they refer to entities or characteristics which are regarded as ‘stable’ Ellipsis is the omission of elements which are precisely recoverable only from the linguistic, but not from situational context In the sentence “The capital outlay may not be justified by the area which may be expected to benefit by the improvement.”, the relative clause provides unimportantly descriptive and elaborating characteristics of the area Questions 6-12: Fill in each blank with just ONE suitable word a Subordination is a non-symetrical relations, holding between two clauses in such a way that one is a (6)……………of the other b Adjunct is, to some extent, integrated in the clause structure whereas disjunct and conjunct (7)…………… d A special feature of primary auxiliaries is that they can function as both (8)……………and (9)……………verbs e Clausal (10)……………is used to deny or reject proposition f Of all the sentence elements, only (11)……………and (12)……………appear once in each sentence/clause Questions 13-17: Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding blank in the answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G), Specific (S), Unique (U) Question ZERO has been done for you as an example 14 Garlic , a member (0) of the lily family with its distinctive odor and taste, has been used throughout recorded history because it was considered to have beneficial properties The earliest known record (13) of its use is in Sanskrit records from 3,000 B.C It was used as a medicine (14) in Ancient Egypt, where it was used to cure 22 different ailments (15) It was also fed to the slaves (16) who were building the pyramids (17) because the Egyptians believed that, in addition to keeping the slaves healthy so that they could continue to work, garlic would make the slaves stronger so that they could work harder Example: (0) S (Specific reference) 13 …………… 14 …………… 15 …………… 16 …………… 17 …………… Questions 18-27: ZIMBABWE FACES NEW CHOLERA CRISIS (Adapted from CNN) (a) The worst cholera outbreak in Africa in 15 years has killed more than 4,000 Zimbabweans (b) The crisis threatens to worsen when the rainy season hits, the U.N Children's Fund said Thursday (c) The preventable disease has spread through the southern African country in the past 10 months (d) UNICEF said this is because of faulty sewage systems, uncollected refuse and a lack of clean water (e) Nearly 100,000 people have been infected since the current epidemic broke out, according to a new Red Cross report (f) The cholera crisis comes as Zimbabwe is struggling with an economic meltdown (g) In May, Zimbabwe announced that it would receive a $22 million grant from the World Bank to help the country's battered economy For questions 18-23, read the article and identify the clause type of each sentence in the article Write your answers in the numbered blanks in the answer sheet The first sentence has been done for you as an example Example: Sentence (a) SVO 18 Sentence b 20 Sentence d 22 Sentence f …………… …………… …………… 19 Sentence c …………… 21 Sentence e …………… 23 Sentence g …………… 15 For questions 24-27: Read the article again and state the semantic role of the following sentence elements Write your answers in the numbered blanks in the answer sheet The first has been done for you as an example Example: The worst cholera outbreak in Africa in 15 years (sentence a) Instrumental subject 24 4000 Zimbabweans (sentence a) _ 25 the rainy season (sentence b) _ 26 The cholera crisis (sentence f) _ 27 $22 million grant (sentence g) _ Questions 28-29: Paraphrase sentence 28 & 29 to show the difference in meaning between these two sentences 28 A child didn’t like the new M&M product _ 29 Not a child liked the new M& M product _ Questions 30-33: State these following sentences are Simple (S), Complex (CX), Compound (CP), or Complex Compound (CC) 30 Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet 31 The construction was reasonably solid not like the cracker-box construction of so many of the motel units that have stucco all over the outside but walls that are thin enough so that so you can hear every movement of the people in the adjoining apartment 32 The maturity in this point of view, that only the strong look squarely at weakness, lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood 33 TIME PLAYS AN ESSENTIAL PART IN OUR MORTALITY, AND SUDDENLY FOR NO REASON DAVID COULD IMAGINE FILLED HIS MIND THE IMAGE OF HIS OLD MOTHER SITTING IN HER ARMCHAIR WITH SUNSET LIGHT FLOODING IN 30 …………… 31 …………… 32 …………… 33 …………… Questions 34-37: Identify whether the underlined are Adjunct (A), Conjunct (C), Style Disjunct (SD), or Attitudinal Disjunct (AD) 16 34 However, she is not obviously beautiful one may think 35 Geographically, England is a diverse land of great sceneries 36 Understandably, the disappearance of the plane was alleged to result from terrorism 37 As a matter of fact, we couldn’t carry on this project without the fund he ran away with Questions 38-39: Identify whether the underlined is Segregatory (S) or Combinatory (C) coordination 38 John and Peter have different tastes _ 39 Bob and Mary separated _ Question 40: The ellipsis in the sentence below is faulty Rewrite it correctly An example has been done for you Example: Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and healthcare Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and poor healthcare/ and poor education and healthcare A shooting campaign is under way to wipe out Tasmanian masked owls introduced in the 1920s to eradicated the rats, but instead developed a taste for the Lord Howe island wood-hen, one of the word’s rarest birds, found only on the island (The Daily Telegraph 27.7.89) THE END 17 ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ KHOA NN&VH ANH MỸ CỘNG HOÀ XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự - Hạnh phúc ******************** ĐÁP ÁN BÀI THI CUỐI HỌC KỲ II MÔN NGỮ PHÁP NĂM HỌC 2008 – 2009 KHỐ 40 Ngày thi: 18/06/2009 (Thí sinh khơng phép sử dụng tài liệu gì) Số phách Họ tên: Ngày sinh: Lớp:…………… Phòng thi số: …………… STT:………… Giám thị 1….……….…………… Giám thị 2…….…………… ……… _ ASWER SHEET Questions 1-5 F T T F F Questions 6-12 constituent/ part peripheral lexical auxiliary 10 negation 11 subjects 12 verbs (Note: 8+9 and 11+12 can be in any order) Questions 13-17 13 S 14 G 15 S 16 G 17 U Questions 18-23 Example: Sentence (a) SVO 18 Sentence b SVO 19 Sentence c SV 20 Sentence d SVO 21 Sentence e SVC 22 Sentence f SV 23 Sentence g SVO Questions 24-27 Example: The worst cholera outbreak in Africa in 15 years (sentence a) Instrumental subject 24 Affected Object 25 Temporal Subject 26 Eventive Subject 27 Affected Object 18 _ Questions 28-29: 28 One child did not like the new M&M product, while the others did 29 No child/ None of the children liked the new M&M product Questions 30-33: 30 CX 31 S 32 CX 33 CC 35 A 36 AD 37 SD Questions 34-37: 34 C Questions 38-39: 38 C 39 C Question 40: A shooting campaign is under way to wipe out Tasmanian masked owls introduced in the 1920s to eradicated the rats, but WHICH instead developed a taste for the Lord Howe island woodhen, one of the word’s rarest birds, found only on the island (The Daily Telegraph 27.7.89) 19 ... NGOẠI NGỮ KHOA NN&VH ANH MỸ CỘNG HOÀ XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự - Hạnh phúc ******************** ĐÁP ÁN BÀI THI CUỐI HỌC KỲ II MÔN NGỮ PHÁP NĂM HỌC 2008 – 2009 KHỐ 40 Ngày thi: 18/06/2009... incident 37 Could you please tell me what is that thing you’ve saved me from? 38 This will certainly lead to assumptions that he was the one behind all this mess 39 I have almost completely forgotten... all over the outside but walls that are thin enough so that so you can hear every movement of the people in the adjoining apartment 32 The maturity in this point of view, that only the strong