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sample test of  LINGUISTICS

choose one of a, b, c, or d only one answer is correct

1. …………..refers to the case where in a language we can have different meanings for the three words "tack", "act", and "cat", yet in each case , we use the same basic set of sounds .

a. cultural transmission                        b. duality

c. directionality                                   d. specialization

2. which statement is NOT true?

a. An icon is a sign whose form has actual characteristic of its meaning

b. Communication can be defined as the use of signs

c. A form without meaning can also be a sign

d. Language can be defined as a sign system

3. There is an inflectional morpheme in the word" ………."

a. communication  b. development      c. fewer       d. studies

4. Since the early days of grammatical study, words have been grouped into word classes traditionally labeled the "………"

a. word varieties                        b. parts of speech

c. allophonic variation               d. minimal pairs

5. We can say that word "Tide", a foreign brand name, in Persian used for any detergent is an instance of ………….

a. back formation                      b. coining

c. extension                              d. narrowing                            

1.b   2.c    3. c   4.b     5.c

You are required to know about:

Phonetics

Phonology

Syntax

Semantics

Pragmatics

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Which choice well corresponds the underlined word?

1. Snicker

a. titter              b. snooker        c. sniggle          d. tatter

2. Tattle

a. gossip           b. tamper          c. gofer             d.   

3. Tardy                      

a. obnoxious     b. sluggish         c. obtrusive       d. slumping

4. Recondite

a. reconnaissance    b. abstruse       c. sacramental        d. abstemious

5. Abjure

a. juxtapose      b. propinquity           c. abnegate           d. attenuate

6. Adjure

a. expound       b. exonerate             c. extemporize         d. command

7. Abomination

a. charnel          b. vernal           c. bier               d. disgrace

8. Jeremiad

a. jocund          b. taper             c. diatribe        d. disparate  

9. Ludicrous

a. absurd          b. discordant    c. sinuous         d. erratic

10. Lithe

a. tortuous       b. flexible           c. devious         d. capricious

1. a   2.a   3.b   4. b     5. c    6. d     7.d    8.c    9.a    10.b

which of a, b, c or d well suits the definition below

1. a building or factory where animal skins and hides are tanned

a. tannish          b. tannery         c. tannic         d. tantara

2. the difference between lunar and solar year consisting of 11 days.

a. epact            b. eparch          c. epaulet          d. epergne

3. expressing a humble but heart-felt appeal to somebody who has the power to grant a request

a. supple           b. supplant     c. suppliant       d. suckle

4. to lie flat on the face or bow very low, for example, in worship or humility

a. prostrate       b. propound     c. promulgate         d. disseminate

5. with a mind that is muddled and confused

a. adduced       b. engrossed         c. addlebrained         d. ephemeral

1. b     2. a      3. c     4. a     5. c

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Second burial.

Among many people, particularly in primitive cultures, a period of waiting occurs between the first and a second burial that often coincides with the duration of decomposition. The origin of this practice is considered to be the different concept of death held by these peoples. In modern societies, death is regarded as instantaneous; it is not so in many nonliterate societies, where it is held to involve a slow change, a passage from the visible society of the living to the invisible one of the dead. During the period of decomposition the corpse is sometimes treated as if it were alive, provided with food and drink, and surrounded by company. Some groups, the Indonesians, for example, attached mystical importance to the disintegration of the body, collecting and carefully disposing of the liquids produced by decomposition—sometimes mixing them with rice to ingest them.

Western burials in the 20th century have become fairly standardized. The dead are interred in cloth-lined and simply ornamented coffins called caskets, and after ceremonies of eulogy and farewell the casket is lowered into a rectangular hole, usually dug 6 feet (2 m) deep into the soil, which is then filled up with earth. Beginning in the 19th century, burials increasingly took place in cemeteries, which are special areas set aside as sites for graves. See cemetery. Compare cremation.

Styx:

in Greek mythology, one of the rivers of the underworld. The word styx literally means “hateful” and expresses loathing of death. In the epics of Homer, the gods swore by the water of the Styx as their most binding oath; if a god perjured himself, he was rendered insensible for a year and then banished from the divine society for nine years. Hesiod personified Styx as the daughter of Oceanus and the mother of Emulation, Victory, Power, and Might. Later the Styx was identified with the stream now called Mavronéri (Greek: “Black Water”) near Nonacris in the Aroania Mountains (near modern Sólos) in Arcadia. The ancients believed that its water was poisonous and would dissolve any vessel containing it except one made of the hoof of a horse or an ass. There is a legend that Alexander the Great was poisoned by Styx water.

Charon:

in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the deceased who had received the rites of burial. In payment he received the coin that was placed in the mouth of the corpse. In art Charon was represented as a morose (having a sullen and gloomy disposition) and grisly old man. In Etruscan he was known as Charun and appeared as a death demon, armed with a hammer. Eventually he came to be regarded as the image of death and of the world below. As such he survives in Charos, or Charontas, the angel of death in modern Greek folklore.

Acheron:

river in Thesprotía in Epirus, Greece, that was thought in ancient times to goto Hades because it flowed through dark gorges and went underground in several places; an oracle of the dead was located on its bank. In Greek mythology it is a river in Hades, and the name sometimes refers to the lower world generally. Several other rivers in Greece are also called Acheron, which traditionally means River of Woe.

Hades:

Greek Aïdes (“the Unseen”), also called Pluto, or Pluton (“the Rich”), in Greek religion, son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and brother of the deities Zeus and Poseidon. After Cronus was killed, the kingdom of the underworld fell by lot to Hades. There he ruled with his queen, Persephone, over the infernal powers and over the dead, in what was often called “the House of Hades,”or simply Hades. Though he supervised the trial and punishment of the wicked after death, he was not normally one of the judges in the underworld; nor did he personally torture the guilty, a task assigned to the Furies(Erinyes). Hades was depicted as stern and pitiless, unmoved (like death itself) by prayer or sacrifice. Forbidding and aloof, he never quite emerges as a distinct personality from the shadowy darkness of his realm, not even in the myth of his abduction of Persephone.