Graduation Examination in Linguistics 6 - ? at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 6 - ? at USSH
Duration: 150 minutes 

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1.

2.

a) Jane is rather tall.

→Synthetic

b) Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam.

→Analytic

c) My son is a boy.

→Synthetic

d) Boys tend to be more troublesome than girls.

→Synthetic

3.

a) stationery/pen - (văn phòng phẩm/bút)

→Hyponymy

b) land/soil - (đất / đất)

→Synonymy

c) husband/wife

→Relational antonymy

d) unusual/strange - (bât thường/lạ)

→Synonymy

4.

a) Everybody was surprised at her resignation.

→She resigned.

b) Why didn't you report it to the management?

→You didn't report it to the management

→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows what "it" was.

5.

a) Her father was buried under this stone.

→Metonymy. Stone stands for tombstone. 

b) They parted after two years of marriage.

→

6.

It shouldn't be too long.

Part 2: WRITING (4 marks)