3 Semantics Training - Teachers’ License by Yousef Alshorbaji

1- (He didn't comply with the rules and regulations). The word comply is closest in meaning to:

• A) obey

• B) ignore

• C) testify

• D) consult

2-…………… Two or more words that often go together are called

• A) comparatives

• B) conjunctions

• C) collocations  

• D) clusters

3- ………… are different words which have the same or similar meaning

• A) Hyponyms

• B) Synonyms

• C) Antonyms

• D) Polysemy

4- The lexical relation that occurs between (declare) and (announce) is ........................

• A) polysemy

• B) antonymy

• C) synonymy

• D) homonymy

5- An utterance that is intended to be taken as conveying the opposite of its literal meaning is called  ……………….

• A)- metonymy

• B)- antonym

• C)- synonym

• D)- homonym

6- My new mobile was confiscated by customs upon my arrival. The word confiscated is closest in meaning to:

• A)- examined for fro forgery

• B)- taken away for good

• C)- searched

• D)- stolen

7- The prefix ante in the word ante meridiem means :

• A)- together

• B)- against

• C)- before

• D)- by oneself

8- Lexical semantics shows its usefulness in a word like risk management through:

• A) Forming new vocabulary

• B) Interpreting the part of speech of each word

• C) Interpreting the meaning of compound nouns

• D) Determining the grammatical function of compound nouns

9- Which of the following choices is the best example of a semantic cueing system :

• A)Najla is learning English as a foreign language. Her teacher often reminds her that in ."English, She should not

  forget to use articles such as "a, an ,and the. 

• B) Ali is learning to read words that begin with" f- ".He has mastered the word "flip" and . read the word "fip " for

  all words that begin with the "f-" blend when he is reading a loud 

• C) Jamal tells his teacher on Monday ,"I ridded my bike to the park on Saturday ." His teacher repeats Jamal's

  sentence and ask him if it sounds correct .He responds ," I rode my bike to" .the park on Saturday

• D) Rami is reading a chapter in his comic book. The hero wins in a battle with his enemy and says, "your attempts

  to thwart me are useless ".Rami guesses based on the picture , the . "earlier storyline, and the character’s

  statement that " thwart " means "to defeat

Answer explanation

A semantic cueing system : الاختيار الالفاظ دلالات نظام

means & guesses          morphology صرف                 phonetics صوتيات                  syntax نحو

10- In the following sentence "he ruminated over the issue before answering " one would analysis (ruminate) as

a verb and that estimates the meaning of the word to mean (think about) the process is known as_________

• A) Semantic bootstrapping

• B) Syntactic bootstrapping

• C) Meaning abstraction

• D) Structure mapping

Answer explanation

هي قدرة فطرية في البشر على معرفة اساسيات ومعلومات في اللغة التي تساعد الصغار على اكتساب اللغة. Bootstrapping