25What is an entailment for “Some students were absent”?
(A)No one was absent.
(B)All students were absent.
(C)Not all students were absent.
(D)At least one student was absent.

21In English, the past tense marker –ed has three pronunciations, [t], [d] and [əd]. The three forms are _____. (A)three phonemes (B)three morphemes (C)allophones of a phoneme (D)allomorphs of a morpheme

22Consider the following phrases: The discussion of the issue (NP) Write a letter (VP) Under the tree (PP) These examples show that English is primarily _____. (A)head-initial (B)head-final (C)head-medial (D)adjunct-final

23Which of the following statements about pidgins is NOT true? (A)Some pidgins are predominantly used as a lingua franca. (B)The pidgin is used at the beginning primarily as a trade language. (C)The pidgin is the first language in some speech communities and has native speakers. (D)The pidgin is a simplified language with reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure.

24The holophrastic stage of child language acquisition is characterized by _____. (A)single word utterance without structure (B)vowel sounds only (C)phrases without function words (D)subject-VP patterns

26Which of the underlined parts is a derivational morpheme? (A)He walks to school. (B)The building is on fire. (C)The apples are juicy. (D)An elephant is bigger than a flea.

27What is the speech act performed in the speaker B’s response in the following dialogue? Speaker A: Would you like to come to our party this Sunday evening? Speaker B: Well, I’m having a math test on Monday morning. (A)request (B)suggestion (C)compliment (D)refusal

28To teach the relationship between letters and sounds, we need to understand the sound structure of a spoken word. Which word in the following has the largest number of phonemes? (A)Blue. (B)Watch. (C)Town. (D)Hand.

29What are the main structures to transfer and communicate information by Total Physical Response? (A)Declarative Sentences. (B)Imperative Sentences. (C)Exclamatory Sentences. (D)Interrogative Sentences.

30Which of the following is a characteristic of metacognitive reading? (A)Take notes. (B)Confirm prediction. (C)Read word by word. (D)Memorize vocabulary.

31Mr. White believes that a language teacher cannot teach the bulk of the vocabulary. According to him, the most important learning strategy a teacher can give students is to train them to notice and remember clusters or chunks of words during their exposure to language. He uses a concordance program to generate a printout of collocations of a given word from a corpus and asks students to sort the collocations into categories according to meaning. Mr. White’s teaching is best described as _____. (A)the lexical approach (B)the whole language approach (C)communicative language teaching (D)competency-based language teaching