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HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY MID -TERM TEST ON LEXICOSEMANTICS

FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH (No 2)


Subject Code: EN11

Full name: ………………………………...............


Date of birth: ………………………………...........
Group: …………………………………….............
I. Answer the following questions: (40 points)
1. What are the types of words ? their typical features? Give some examples.
2. What are the types of morphemes? their typical features? Give some examples
(The file sent will be named after each student’s name. Plagiarism will lead to failure)

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II. Exercises
Exercises on Prefixes

I. arch- (chief, main, highest-ranking) out- (more, better etc. than) mal- (badly,
wrongly) pseudo- (false, pretended)
Put each of the above prefixes in its correct space in the sentences below.

(a) In my opinion this book is just …….-intellectual rubbish.


(b) Although he was older than his wife, he ……………..lived her by ten years.
(c) Priests are not often ambitious men, but he had set his heart on becoming
……………….bishop.
(d) The launch of the space-rocket was delayed by a ………. function in the fuel system.
(e) At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain's ……..-enemy was France.
(f) He completely ………. boxed his opponent and knocked him out in the seventh round.
(g) Children who grow up in time of war are more likely to be …….adjusted than other
children.
(h) He uses …….....-scientific language to persuade his readers.
(i) These squalid, dark, cramped, ………odorous rooms are homes towhole families of
people.
(j) She was the finest dancer in the country. She ……..shone all the others.

II. Explain shortly the meanings of the following words and phrases
(a) a pseudonym …………………… (e) malnutrition ……………………
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(b) arch-rivals …………………… (f) pseudo-religious ……………………
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(c) maladministration ……………… (g) an arch-villain …………………….......
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(d) out-size clothes …………………… (h) to outstay your welcome ……………......
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III. a- (not, without) hyper- (extremely, too) fore- (before, in front of) neo- (new,
revived)
(a) The British Museum was built in the middle of the last century in the ……………-
classical style popular at that time
(b) Who can ………..tell what the future holds for us?
(c) It's no use asking him about the political system or the parties. He didn’t know or care.
He's completely ………..political
(d) It's quite normal to complain if you think something is wrong, but I do feel that you
are sometimes ……….critical.
(e) The authorities are concerned at the activities of a small ………-Nazi movement.
(f) You must be very careful what you say about her poems. She's a…….sensitive person.
(g) She didn’t know the difference between right and wrong She had no conscience of all.
She was simply ……….moral
(h) The police claimed that she had some ……….knowledge of the murder attempt and
could have prevented it
(i) He was standing in the middle, in the ……….ground of the picture.
(j) Young children can sometimes be ………..active, which means that they can’t keep
still.

IV, Explain shortly the meanings of the following words and phrases.
(a) neo-imperiatism (e) hypertension
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(b) an atheist (f) a foregone conclusion
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(c) a foretaste (g) an asymmetrical shape
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(d) a hypermarket (h) a neo-Fascist
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V. uni-, mono- (one) duo-, bi- (two) tri- (three) quad-, quart- (four) pent-, quin- (five)
sex- (six) sept- (seven) oct- (eight) non- (nine) dec- (ten) cent- (hundred)
Complete the words in the passage below

George Willis was born in 1900 and was too young to go into uni……… in the
First World War, which took place in the second dec……… of the cent……. . Instead
he finished his schooling and went to university. Like most Oxford colleges, his college
was built round a quad…….. and a photograph of him there shows him wearing a
mono……. in his eye, one of his many eccentricities. He rode a tri…….., declaring it to
be safer and more stable than a bi……. . His subject was zoology. Initially he studied
bi………, but soon tired of two-legged creatures and took an interest in quad……..,
developing a special affection tor elephants. However, all animal life fascinated him and
he was often to be seen in the Oxfordshire countryside, observing wildlife through his
bi…….. or setting up his tri…….. to record it in photographs. Marine creatures also
attracted him, especially, for some reason, the oct…….. . He was also creative in such
diverse fields as engineering (he proposed a scheme for mono……….. transport in
London)
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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)

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