Đề thi kết thúc học phần môn Ngữ nghĩa học năm 2019-2020 - Trường Đại học Ngân Hàng TP.HCM

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ĐỀ THI KẾT THÚC HỌC PHẦN
MÔN: NGỮ NGHĨA HỌC
(số câu trong đề thi: 16)
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút

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NỘI DUNG ĐỀ THI
PART 1
Câu 1. Identify the deictic expressions in the following utterances. If there is none, write ONE.
1. “They arrived a few minutes ago and reported the theft of the car.”
2. “Small companies are usually very vulnerable in a recession.”
Câu 2. Identify the predicates in the following sentences. Supply the degree of each predicate in
brackets. If there is none, write NONE.
e.g. The semantic test is easy.  semantic (1), test (1), easy (1)
1. Most Londoners know what they want and how to get it.
2. The firefighters turned up to put out a fire.
PART 2
Câu 3. Identify the referring expressions in the following utterances. (Imagine normal
circumstances for the utterance.) If there is none, write NONE
1. “The small boys were homeless or lived in an orphanage.”
2. “We need an experienced receptionist to work full-time in our bank.”
Câu 4. Identify the predicators in the following sentences. (Imagine normal circumstances for
the utterances.) If there is none, write NONE
1. The small boys were homeless or lived in an orphanage.
2. We need an experienced receptionist to work full-time in our bank.
PART 3
Câu 5. Are the following sentences analytic (A), synthetic (S), or a contradiction (C)? Write A
or S or C.

1. All facts are true.
2. Every city has pollution problems.
Câu 6. Are the following sentences generic (G), equative (S), or ambiguous (A) or none of these
kinds (N)? Write, G, S, A or N.
1. Men love with their eyes, women with their ears.
2. Barton’s is one of the largest local construction companies.
Câu 7. Identify the relationship (hyponymy, homonymy, synonymy, binary antonymy, gradable
antonymy, converseness, multiple incompatibility, polysemy) of each pair of words. The words
given in brackets are to clarify the meaning in question of the italicized words.
1. semantics – phonetics
2. book (in ‘to read a book’) – book (in ‘to book a hotel’)
3. trainee - trainer
4. jobless – unemployed

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PART 4
Câu 8. Write a paraphrase of the following sentence.
Young people are starting new businesses at a lower age than previously.
Câu 9. Write a sentence which is entailed by the following sentence.
The third-floor restaurant offers many local specialties.
Câu 10. Write a contradiction of the following sentence
Victoria is the busiest underground station.
Câu 11. Explain the ambiguity in the following sentence by supplying two possible paraphrases.
Identify if the sentence is an example of structural or lexical ambiguity.
The door is unlockable.
PART 5
Fill in the gap with ONE missing word.
Câu 12

Sense and extension are alike (and unlike reference) in that they are _____________ of any occasion
of use.
Câu 13
“Potatoes contain a lot of vitamin C.” is a(n) _____________ sentence.
Câu 14
Paraphrases are sentences that have the same set of _____________: they mutually entail each other.
Câu 15
A(n) _____________ can be loud or quiet, in a particular regional accent, and in a particular
language.
Câu 16
A(n) _____________ of a predicate is the most typical member of the extension of a predicate.

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