HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY MID -TERM TEST ON LEXICOSEMANTICS

FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH (No 1)

Subject Code: EN11

Full name: Đỗ Thành Quang………………………………...............

Date of birth:10/02/1987 ………………………………...........
Group: FSG 113…………………………………….............
I. Answer the following questions: (40 points)
1. What is a word ? its typical features?
2.What is a morpheme? What are the differences between a word and a morpheme?
(The file sent will be named after each student’s name. Plagiarism will lead to failure)
1. What is a word? Its typical features.
A word is a letter or group of letters that has meaning when spoken or written. A word is
a separate meaningful unit, which can be used to form sentences.
Words can have the typical features:
Names of things (nouns): School
Indicates activities (verbs): Drink
States (Adverb): Confident.
Troperties (adjectives): Exciting.
Words are tools that represent human concepts to reality.
2. What is a morpheme? What are the differences between a word and a morpheme?
Morphemes are the smallest units in words, its refers to the smallest meaningful element
of a word. A morpheme cannot be further broken into parts. For example, chair, dog,
bird, table, computer are all morphemes.
The main difference is that while a word can stand alone, a morpheme may or may not
be able to stand alone.

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II. Exercises
Exercises on Prefixes
I. Which negative adjective fits each of the following definition ?

1.Unmarried means not having a husband or wife.

2.Inedible means impossible to eat.
3.Illiterate means unable to read and write.
4.Unemployed means not having a job.
5.Impartial means fair in giving judgement, not favouring one side.
6.Irreplaceable means unable to be replaced.

II. Answer the following questions

1. What kind of oven cooks things particularly fast ? Microwave

2. What kind of drug can help somebody with an infection ? Antibiotic
3. What kind of company has branches in many countries ? Multi-national
4. How does a passenger aeroplane normally fly ? On auto-pilot
5. What is a student who is studying for a second degree ? postgraduate.
6. What means "underground railway in the US " and " underground passage in the UK"
? subway
III. Rewrite the following sentences, using prefixes.

1 He's in favour of the American approach.

He’s pro American.
2. The BBC tried to avoid pronouncing foreign words incorrectly.
The BBC tries to avoid mispronounce foreign words.
3. Most people say they have to work too hard but are paid too little.
Most people say they are overworked but underpaid.
4. He dated his cheque with a date that was late than the real date.
He postdated his cheque
5. She's still on good terms with the man who used to be her husband.
She’s still on good terms with her ex-husband.
6. He made so many mistakes in the letter that he had to write it again.
He made so many mistakes in the letter than he had to re-write it.

IV. Use your knowledge of prefixes to write definitions of the underlined words

Although Jim is an ex-soldier, he's only semi-literate. When he tries to write a letter
, he misspells half the words and his wife has to rewrite it for him . His wife used to work
in a sub-department of the post office where her main job was redirecting mail . Jim's
very pro-army but he over-emphasizes its good points. His wife, on the other hand, is
rather anti-army and she undervalues its positive aspects.
Although Jim used to be a soldier, he's only partly literate. When he tries to write a
letter, he spells half the words incorrectly and his wife has to write it a gain for him . His
wife used to work in a not very important -department of the post office where her main
job was forwarding mail to new addresses. Jim's very much in favour of the army but he
give too much emphasis to its good points. His wife, on the other hand, is rather against
the army and she doesn’t give enough value to its positive aspects.

V. Which word is the odd one out in each set and why ?

1, legible, loyal, legal, legitimate

Loyal Because Legible, legal, legal: attributes related to law. Loyal (loyalty) related
to human virtues
2, insert, internal, inedible, income
Income Because income related to economic ability. Three from but not links to
economy
3, uncomfortable ,unlock ,unfold, unzip
Uncomfortable Because it’s talking about the human state.
4, extract, ex-wife, ex- communicative, exhale
Ex – wife Because it said about people.
5, worship, kinship,friendship, partnership
Worship Because it doesn't involve relationships like the other 3 words

Một số yêu cầu:

+ Sinh viên nộp file word lên hệ thống
+ Ghi rõ mã đề trong bài làm.
Chú ý:
+ Chế tài xử lý đối với bài phát hiện có sự sao chép ( VD: nếu phát hiện sao chép thì bài làm
của sinh viên sẽ không được công nhận và nhận điểm 0….)
+ Giảng viên có thể trao đổi, nhận xét góp ý cho bài làm của sinh viên trên diễn đàn hoặc
buổi Vclass (SV tham gia lớp Vclass đầy đủ để được giải đáp)