I had a question .. This is in the textbook for high school students.Q: Choose the suitable word.There he goes practicing on his violin again!
He sounds (awesome / awful)!
The answer given by the textbook is 'awful', and I can partly agree.
But if some choose 'awesome', thinking 'he must be the great,
amazing player', isn't it also possible?
As I wrote in my short guestbook answer, the answer to your question is a matter of context, but it is also a matter of vocabulary.
Context
"There (someone) goes again" can be used to express a lot of different feelings, but it is generally used when the speaker wants to show mock bemusement or annoyance--or genuine annoyance or agitation. Because these are not positive feelings, the use of this phrase usually implies a negative view of the action being described. In the example sentence you gave, it seems that the speaker is annoyed, so the likely choice is the negative adjective "awful."
Vocabulary
The standard meaning of "awesome" is "awe-inspiring," and "awe" describes a mixture of wonder, respect, and fear, so even if "there he goes again" had a positive connotation, it seems to me that "awesome" is too grand to be used after the simple sentence that describes what is happening. Strictly speaking, the answer "awesome" is possible, but it seems that it is unlikely it would be heard in this context.
A Word about Slang . . .
"Awesome" became a kind of trendy word in the 1980s in the U.S., and in it's slang usage it means "great." Tests usually don't test slang and colloquial meanings of words, so it's very unlikely that it means "great" in the example sentence.
