Graduation Examination in Linguistics 29 - March, 2011 at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 29 - March, 2011 at USSH
Duration: 150 minutes

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks)

1.
a) widower, father, uncle, bull, handsome
(góa vợ, cha, chú, con bò đực, đẹp trai)
→ [+male]

b) astronaut, writer, tailor, boy, aunt
(phi hành gia, nhà văn, thợ may, cậu bé, cô)
→[+human]

c) blood, petrol, acid rain, milk, soy sauce
(máu, xăng dầu, mưa axit, sữa, nước tương)
→[+uncountable noun]

d) table, stone, ship, milk, soup
(bàn, đá, tàu, sữa, súp)
→[+countable noun]

2.

a) Let's wind up the kite string before the wind gets too wild.
→ wind, wind
→ homographs

b) How many ways can I tell him that he weighs too much?
→ ways, weighs
→ homophones

c) Due to the dry weather, we do not see any dew on the grass.
→ due, dew

→ homophones

d) The dog was happy when you dropped the ground beef onto the ground.
→ ground, ground
→ homonyms

3.
Anyone who's an ancestor of an ancestor of Bob is an ancestor of Bob.
(tạm dịch: Bất cứ ai là tổ tiên của tổ tiên của Bob là tổ tiên của Bob.)
→Analytic

4.
Why did you get upset just because you got one bad grade?
→ You got upset just because you got one bad grade.

5.
"We married in 1929."

6.
"I prosecute you for winning the prize."

Part 2 : ESSAY WRITING (4 marks)