A CHECK - UP TEST ON ENGLISH SEMANTICS

Time allotted : 30’

Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one of the letters ABCD on your
answer sheet
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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 is the elected president of the
United States of America” are referring expressions?
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?
a. beautiful - ugly
b. far - near
c. deep - shallow
d. parent – off-spring
11. Which of the following is the case of sense relation of the pair father – dad?
a. dialectal synonyms
b. semantic synonyms
c. stylistic synonyms
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
b. loyal – virtue
c. give - take
d. steal – borrow

18. Which of the following sentences indicating an orientation towards the speaker?
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 your nanny, 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:
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?
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 of values
35. Which of the following mentions DOES NOT a connection of language to the world?
a. extension
b. sense
c. reference
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 Superman
d. Superman is Superman
39. 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
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