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A CHECK UP TEST ON ENGLISH SEMANTICS Time allowed: 30’ Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one of the letters ABCD on your answer sheet Please do not write anything in this reading paper 1. Which of the following DOES NOT HAVE the correct entailment? a. Bill didn’t see a flower entails Bill didn’t see a rose. b. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill didn’t see a boy. c. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw a person. d. Bill didn’t see a rectangular entails Bill didn’t see a square. 2. Which of the following involves different possible things that the same expression may refer to? a. sense b. variable reference c. constant reference d. no reference 3. Which of the following HAVE the correct entailment? a. Bill saw a flower entails Bill saw a rose. b. Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill didn’t see a flower. c. Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill saw a sunflower. d. Bill saw all flowers entails Bill saw a rose. 4. Which of the following is the contradiction sentence? a. That bachelor is an innocent man. b. That bachelor is not human being. c. That bachelor is never married. d. That bachelor is male. 5. Which of the following expressions of the sentence: The present Prime Minister of Viet Nam is Nguyen Tan Dung has constant reference? a. Nguyen Tan Dung b. Viet Nam c. the present Prime Minister d. a and b

A CHECK - UP TEST ON ENGLISH SEMANTICS

Time allowed: 30’

Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one of the letters ABCD on your answer sheet

* Please do not write anything in this reading paper

1 Which of the following DOES NOT HAVE the correct entailment?

a Bill didn’t see a flower entails Bill didn’t see a rose

b Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill didn’t see a

boy

c Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw

a person

d Bill didn’t see a rectangular entails Bill didn’t see a square

2 Which of the following involves different possible things that the same expression may refer to?

a sense

b variable reference

c constant reference

d no reference

3 Which of the following HAVE the correct entailment?

a Bill saw a flower entails Bill saw a rose

b Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill didn’t see a flower

c Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill saw a sunflower

d Bill saw all flowers entails Bill saw a rose

4 Which of the following is the contradiction sentence?

a That bachelor is an innocent man

b That bachelor is not human being

c That bachelor is never married

d That bachelor is male

5 Which of the following expressions of the sentence: The present Prime

Minister of Viet Nam is Nguyen Tan Dung has constant reference?

a Nguyen Tan Dung

b Viet Nam

c the present Prime Minister

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 utterances would be the most inappropriate ?

a Please get me a cup of coffee

b Please bring me a cup of coffee

c Please take a cup of coffee

d Please go to me with a cup of coffee

8 Which of the underlined expressions in the sentence “Barrack Obama isthe elected president of the United States of America ” are referringexpressions?

a Barrack Obama

b the elected president of the United States of America

c is

d a & b

9 Which of the following is an example of the statement?

Some sentences which do not contain ambiguous words can be ambiguous

a Yesterday a 14th century chair was bought by a dealer with a

beautifully carved wooden leg

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.

10 Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?

d none of the above

12 The predicate afraid used in the sentence John was afraid of this spider

is

a one-place predicate

b two place-predicate

c three-place predicate

d none of the above

13 Which of the following can be true or false?

a sentence

b utterance

c proposition

d all of the above

14 Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?

a A bear never eats the dead body

b A bear is the animal that typically hibernates during winter

c A bear sleeps almost during a winter

d A bear is sucking honey from the bee nest

15 Which of the following is an example of the statement:

Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous

a The chicken is ready to eat.

b You’re so kind to me

c The cranes were transported by the ship

d Fred said that he would pay me on Thursday

16 The expression one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature

in the sentence William

Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature is

a constant reference

b a referring expression

c never refers to different things or person

d a & b

17 Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate?

a daisy - sun flower

a Please take some warm clothes with you

b Please bring some warm clothes with you

c Please come here with some warm clothes

d b & c

19 Which of the following pairs are paraphrases?

a Tom loaned money from ABC Bank ABC Bank loaned money to Tom

b John and Mary are twins Mary and Tom are twins

c Room 101 is above this room Room 101 is below this room

d Bill killed Tom Tom died

20 Which of the following is the synthetic sentence?

a Bachelors are male

b Bachelors are not reptiles

c Bachelors are not human

being

d Bachelors are lonely

21 Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)

(A) Fester regretted that he borrowed me 5 dollars

(B) I lent 5 dollars to Fester

a (A) and (B) are paraphrases

b (A) entails (B)

c (A) presupposes (B)

d a and b

22 Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?

a worse than – better

than

b hot – cold

c ugly – beautiful

d near – far

23 Which of the following underlined is an example of referring expression?

a Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, I’ll report this to yournanny, boy

b Mother to child: This dog will not bite you, son

c Mother to child: The air – goddess will come in your dream

d Mother to child: Don’t touch that barking dog because he may bite you

24 Which of the following is the case of polysemy?

a fast (quickly) and fast (not eat)

b punch (hit with a fist) and punch (a kind of strong alcoholic drink)

c head (body part) and head (hit with the head)

d ball (round object) and ball (dance)

25 The underlined in “Please open the door” is:

26 The pair unmarried and married are binary

antonyms because

a both of them can combine with very

b between them exhaust all the relevant possibilities

c both of them can be used in comparison

construction d all of the above mentioned

27 Which of the following expressions can be 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)

28 Which of the following refer to the thing or person being talked about in the context of the utterance?

a variable reference

b extension

c sense

d none of the above

29 Which of the following is incorrect?

a Analyticity is a sense property of a predicate

b Contradiction is a sentence which is always false

c Syntheticity is a sense property of an individual sentence

d Analyticity is a sentence which is always true

30 Which of the following pairs of expressions binary?

a borrow - lend

b give - take

c conceal - reveal

d evergreen - deciduous

31 Which of the following is the case of homonymy?

a row (line) and row (argument)

b fork (of a road) and fork (a tool)

c branch (of science) and branch (of a tree)

d neck (body part) and neck (of a bottle)

32 Which of the underlined is the argument of a simple sentence?

a This dog will not bite you, son

b This dog will not bite you, son

c This dog will not bite you, son

d This dog will not bite you, son

33 Which of the following expressions of the sentence Osama bin Laden is

hiding in Afghanistan is the constant reference?

a Osama bin Laden

b Afghanistan

c hide

d a and b

34 The predicates beautiful and ugly are gradable anonyms because

a they describes the same relationship when mentioned in

the opposite order b between them exhaust all the relevant

possibilities

c both of them belong to the open-ended English achievement system

d these two predicates are at opposite ends of a continuous scale ofvalues

35 Which of the following DOES NOT mention a connection of language

d all of the above

36 Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?

a Mary took all the dishes and Mary stole all the plates

b Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes

c Mary purchased all the plates and Mary bought

all the dishes d both a and c

37 Which of the following is analytic?

a The pentagon is six- sided

b Young Juan’s pet is not a mammal

c A triangle is three-sided figure

d My snake is not reptile

38 Which of the following is the case of analytic sentence?

a Superman is not Clark Kent

b Superman is Clark Kent

c Clark Kent is not

40 The word drive is an example of polysemy because

a drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical in spelling

b its two senses (drive a nail) and (drive a car) both contain the concept

of cause sth to move

c drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical in

pronunciation d none of the above

A CHECK - UP TEST ON ENGLISH SEMANTICS

T

i m e a ll o tt e d : 30’

Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one

of the letters ABCD on your answer sheet

* Please do not write anything in this reading paper

1 Which of the following DOES NOT HAVE the correct entailment?

a Bill didn’t see a flower entails Bill

didn’t see a rose b Bill didn’t see a

person entails Bill didn’t see a boy c

Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw a

person

d Bill didn’t see a rectangula r entails Bill

didn’t see a square

2 Which of the following involves different possible things that the same expression may refer to?

3 Which of the following HAVE the correct entailment?

a Bill saw a flower entails

Bill saw a rose

b Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill

didn’t see a flower c Bill didn’t see a

rose entails Bill saw a sunflower

d Bill saw all flowers entails

Bill saw a rose

4 Which of the following is the contradiction sentence ?

a That bachelor is an

innocent man b That

bachelor is not human

being c That bachelor

is never married

6 Which of the following is NOT independent of circumstance or

particular occasions or topic of

a Please get me a cup of coffee.

b Please bring me a cup

of coffee c Please take a

cup of coffee

d Please go to me with a cup of coffee

8 Which of the underlined expressions in the sentence “B a rr ac k O b a m a i s

9 Which of the following is an example of the statement?

Some sentences which do not contain ambiguous words can be ambiguous

a Yesterday a 14th century chair was bought by a dealer with a

beautifully carved wooden leg 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

10 Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms ?

14 Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence ?

a A bear never eats the dead body

b A bear is the animal that typically

hibernates during winter c A bear sleeps

almost during a winter

d A bear is sucking honey from the bee nest

15 Which of the following is an example of the statement:

Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous

a The chicken is ready to eat

b You’re so kind to me

c The cranes were transported by the ship

d Fred said that he would pay me on Thursday

16 The expression one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature

in the sentence William

Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature

is

a constant reference

b a referring expression

c never refers to different

things or person d a & b

17 Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate ?

a Please take some warm clothes

with you b Please bring some

warm clothes with you c Please

come here with some warm

clothes d b & c

19 Which of the following pairs are paraphrases?

a Tom loaned money from ABC Bank

ABC Bank loaned money

to Tom b John and Mary

are twins

Mary and Tom are twins

c Room 101 is above this room.Room 101 is below

this room d Bill killed

Tom

Tom died

20 Which of the following is the synthetic sentence ?

a Bachelors are male

b Bachelors are not reptiles

c Bachelors are not

human being d

Bachelors are lonely

21 Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)(A) Fester regretted that he borrowed

me 5 dollars (B) I lent 5 dollars to

b Mother to child: T h i s dog will not bite you, son

c Mother to child: The air – goddess w il l come in your dream

d Mother to child: Don’t t o u c h that barking dog because he may bite you

24 Which of the following is the case of polysemy?

a fast (quickly) and fast (not eat)

b punch (hit with a fist) and punch (a kind of strong alcoholic drink)

c head (body part) and head (hit with the head)

d ball (round object) and ball (dance)

25 The underlined in “Please op e n the door” is:

a deixis

b constant

reference c

predicator

d variable reference

26 The pair unmarried and married are binary

antonyms because a both of them can combine

with very

b between them exhaust all the relevant possibilities

c both of them can be used in

comparison construction d all of the

above mentioned

27 Which of the following expressions can be

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)

28 Which of the following refer to the thing or person being talked about in the context of the utterance?

a variable

reference b

extension

c sense

d none of the above

29 Which of the following is incorrect?

a Analyticity is a sense property of a predicate

b Contradiction is a sentence which is always false

c Syntheticity is a sense property of an

individual sentence d Analyticity is a

sentence which is always true

30 Which of the following pairs of expressions binary?

31 Which of the following is the case of homonymy?

a row (line) and row (argument)

b fork (of a road) and fork (a tool)

c branch (of science) and branch (of a tree)

d neck (body part) and neck (of a bottle)

32 Which of the underlined is the argument of a simple sentence?

a This dog w il l not bite

you, son b This dog will

n

ot bite you, son c This

dog will not b i t e you, son

d This dog will not bite

34 The predicates beautiful and ugly are gradable anonyms because

a they describes the same relationship when mentioned

in the opposite order b between them exhaust all the

relevant possibilities

c both of them belong to the open-ended English achievement system

d these two predicates are at opposite ends of a continuous scale of values

35 Which of the following DOES NOT mention a connection of language

d all of the above

36 Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?

a Mary took all the dishes and Mary stole all the plates

b Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes

c Mary purchased all the plates and Mary bought

all the dishes d both a and c

37 Which of the following is analytic?

a The pentagon is six- sided

b Young Juan’s pet is not a mammal