I. Multiple choice: Choose the best answer to each of the following items. Put your response (the corresponding letter) on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 0.5 x 40 items)
1. The sentence "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." illustrates the _____ nature of language.
A. symbolic    B. conventional    C. metaphorical    D. flower
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the design features of human language?
      A. double articulation  B. creativity  C. displacement  D. genetics
3. Which of the following is a front, close and short vowel?
A. [u:]    B. [a]    C. [i]      D. [u]
4. Which of the following forms a minimal pair?
A. fear, pear  B. tip, pit    C. food, foot  D. heat, hit
5. In English, if three consonants should cluster together at the beginning of a word, the combination should obey the following rules except _____:
    A. The first phoneme must be /s/.             
    B. The second phoneme must be /p/ or /t/ or /k/.
    C. The third phoneme must be /l/ or /r/ or /w/.
    D. The phoneme /h/ can replace the second phoneme if it is followed by /w/.
6. Which of the following underlined parts is a bound morpheme?
A. scholarship        B. classroom    C. policeman    D. childlike
7. Which of the following words does NOT belong to the open classes?
A. enjoy      B. happy      C. as    D. beautifully
8. The word impossibility consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes.
A. six/three      B. five/two    C. six/four  D. five/five
9. For the word "to" in "It is necessary to know yourself.", we can say _____.
    A. it has a lexical meaning
    B. it is an inflectional morpheme
    C. it is a derivational morpheme
    D. it has a grammatical meaning as an infinitive marker
10. In TG, 'S-structure' represents _____ structure.
    A. surface    B. sentence    C. specifier    D. syntactic
11. The words “elevator” and “lift” are ______ synonyms.
A. near  B. dialectal  C. collocationally-restricted  D. stylistic
12. The words “literate” and “illiterate” are ______ opposites.
minimalA. gradable  B. ungradable  C. relational  D. complementary
13. Which of the following is the correct componential analysis of the word “cake”?
A.[+FOOD-SOLID+COUNTABLE]
B.[+FOOD+SOLID+COUNTABLE]
    C.[+DRINKS-LIQUID-COUNTABLE]
D.[+DRINKS+LIQUID-COUNTABLE]
14. “It’s foggy today.” is a _____-place predication.
A. no  B. one  C. two  D. three
15. A predication consists of _____.
    A. arguments                    B. predicates
    C. argument(s) and predicates        D. argument(s) and predicate
16. _____ is often regarded as a high-status marker.
    A. sociolect      B. idiolect      C. register      D. accent
17. Which of the following best describes the relation between “He is alone” and “He has no one to talk to”?
A. The former is synonymous with the latter.
B. The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C. The former entails the latter.
D. The former presupposes the latter.
18. Which of the following best describes the relation between “He paid a visit to Sydney.” and “He paid a visit to Australia.”?
A. The former is synonymous with the latter.
B. The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C. The former entails the latter.
D. The former presupposes the latter.
19. Which of the following best describes the relation between “Her sister is coming.” and “She has a sister.”?
A.The former is synonymous with the latter.
B.The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C.The former entails the latter.
D.The former presupposes the latter.
20. ‘Statesman’ and ‘politician’ are ___.
A. dialectal synonyms        B. collocational synonyms
C. stylistic synonyms        D. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning
21. The relation between ‘furniture’ and ‘desk’ is ___.
A. homophony    B. homography    C. polysemy        D. hyponymy
22. ‘Mother’ and ‘daughter’ are ___.
A. gradable antonyms        B. relational opposites
C. ungradable opposites      D. complementary synonyms
23. According to Searle, acts bringing about immediate changes by saying something are _____.
    A. representatives    B. directives    C. expressives  D. declarations
24. Which of the following is a commissive?
A.I’m really sorry to hear that.
B.I will see you without fail.
C.You’d better have dinner at once.
D.I now declare the meeting open.

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