This document appears to be a mini-test on semantic concepts including:
- Identifying true/false statements about co-hyponyms, referring expressions, and paraphrases.
- Identifying shared semantic features of word groups.
- Identifying semantic properties of individual words.
- Determining sense relations like antonymy, polysemy, and hyponymy between word pairs.
- Identifying homophones, homographs, and homonyms in sentences.
- Identifying figures of speech and their interpretations.
- Classifying sentences as analytic, synthetic, or contradictory.
- Determining if sentences logically entail other sentences.
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Do you want proper English exams for your pupils? I am writing some tests for my students that I would like to share with you. You are free to print them out and use them with your students.
Antonio Sánchez-Migallón Jiménez.
¿Quieres exámenes de inglés adecuados para tus alumnos? Estoy realizando pruebas escritas para mis estudiantes que me gustaría compartir contigo.Tienes plena libertad para imprimirlas y utilizarlas con tus estudiantes.
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Do you want proper English exams for your pupils? I am writing some tests for my students that I would like to share with you. You are free to print them out and use them with your students.
Antonio Sánchez-Migallón Jiménez.
1. Date: ____________
Name: _________________
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MINI-TEST 1
DURATION: 45 minutes
1. State whether the following statements are true or false.
Then write T for true statements and F for false ones. (2
marks)
a. _F_______Co-hyponyms are mutually exclusive.
b. __T______ A word or an expression must have sense in
order to be a referring expression.
c. ___T_____ Two sentences are paraphrases if and only if
they mutually entail each other.
d. ____T____ A proposition can be ambiguous.
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2. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share?
a. widow, mother, aunt, cow, hen [+FEMALE]
b. blood, petrol, acid rain, coffee, sugar [MATERIAL/
THING]
c. table, rock, boat, rice, soup [+THING]
d. engineer, teacher, driver, girl, uncle [+HUMAN]
3. Identify the semantic properties of the following words:
a. actress = [+human], [+female], [+professional],
[+ working in the field of entertainment/ movies/ theatre]
b. soldier = [+human], [+female], [+working in the army]
4. What is the sense relation between each of the following
pairs of words? When it is antonymy, specify whether it is
binary, gradable or relational. (1 mark)
a. advance – retreat gradable antonymy
b. get (v) obtain – get (v) buy polysemy
c. flower – petal hyponymy
d. narrow – wide gradable antonymy
2. 5. Identify possible words in each of the following sentences
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that are homophones, homographs, or homonyms.
a. The man did not want to desert the dessert on the desert.
(1) (2) (3)
(1) & (2): homophones
(1) & (3): homographs
b. My parents usually park their car near the Green Park.
homonyms
6. For each of the following sentences, identify the figure of
speech used and interpret it. (1 mark)
a. We need some strong bodies for our project.
- synecdoche
- “strong bodies” = strong people
b. How could she marry such a snake!
Human is an animal.
- metaphor
- “a snake” = a person/ husband who is very evil/ bad.
7. Decide whether each of the following sentences is analytic,
synthetic or contradictory?
a. ____A_______________: He is as old as himself.
b. _____C______________: My spinster friend is married.
c. ______S_____________: Bachelors cannot form lasting
relationships.
d. _______C____________: John killed Bill, who has just
phoned me.
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8. True or false
a.John cooked an egg entails John boiled an egg. F
b.John stole a car entails John took a car. T
c. Mary coloured all the square entails Mary coloured all
the rectangular. F
d. No one has led a perfect life entails Someone has led a
perfect life. F
e. I gave all my pens entails I gave all my writing tools.