1. Which of the following is NOT a function of rising intonation in English?
A. Asking a question.
B. Expressing surprise.
C. Indicating finality.
D. Showing incompleteness.
2. In connected speech, what is assimilation?
A. The omission of sounds in rapid speech.
B. The joining of words without pauses.
C. A sound becoming similar to a neighboring sound.
D. The exaggeration of certain sounds for emphasis.
3. What is the primary reason for using connected speech phenomena like assimilation and elision?
A. To make speech more formal.
B. To make speech easier and more fluent.
C. To emphasize certain words.
D. To confuse listeners.
4. Identify the word where the 'ch′ sound is pronounced differently from the others: 'ch**air**', 's**ch**ool′, 'ma**ch**ine′, '**ch**oose′.
A. chair
B. school
C. machine
D. choose
5. What is the function of intonation in spoken English?
A. To indicate word stress.
B. To convey grammatical structure.
C. To express attitudes and emotions.
D. To separate words.
6. Which of the following words contains a diphthong?
A. ship
B. sheep
C. shy
D. shop
7. Identify the word where the 'th′ sound is voiced.
A. thin
B. thought
C. this
D. thick
8. What is the difference between 'beat′ and 'bit′ in terms of vowel sounds?
A. The length of the vowel.
B. The place of articulation of the vowel.
C. The voicing of the vowel.
D. The stress on the vowel.
9. Which of the following is an example of a weak form in English?
A. 'a′ in 'a book′
B. 'the′ in 'the car′
C. 'to′ in 'to go′
D. All of the above
10. In the word 'strength′, how many consonant sounds are there?
A. Five
B. Six
C. Seven
D. Four
11. What is the phonemic transcription for the word 'phone′?
A. ∕fəʊn∕
B. ∕pʰoʊn∕
C. ∕foʊn∕
D. ∕fɒn∕
12. What is the primary function of stress in English words?
A. To indicate the grammatical function of the word.
B. To distinguish between different words or meanings.
C. To make words easier to spell.
D. To show the origin of the word.
13. Which of these words has a silent letter?
A. know
B. knee
C. knife
D. All of the above
14. Identify the pair that does NOT demonstrate contrastive stress (stress shift for different meaning).
A. IMport vs. imPORT
B. REcord vs. reCORD
C. DESert vs. deSERT
D. table vs. chair
15. Which word has the weakest vowel sound (schwa ∕ə∕) in its stressed syllable?
A. about
B. banana
C. sofa
D. None of the above, schwa is never in stressed syllable.
16. In which word is the 'g′ silent?
A. garden
B. ghost
C. gnome
D. grape
17. Which of these words contains a consonant cluster at the beginning?
A. apple
B. street
C. easy
D. orange
18. Identify the word with the stressed syllable at the beginning.
A. permit (verb)
B. record (verb)
C. present (verb)
D. table
19. Which of these words has a different vowel sound in the underlined part compared to the others? 'b**ea**t′, 's**ee**', 'f**ee**t′, 'br**ea**d′
A. beat
B. see
C. feet
D. bread
20. Which of the following pairs of words are minimal pairs?
A. sun and son
B. tree and three
C. thought and through
D. believe and achieve
21. What is elision in phonetics?
A. Adding extra sounds to words.
B. Linking words together smoothly.
C. Omission of a sound or syllable when speaking.
D. Changing the stress pattern of a word.
22. What is the difference between a phoneme and an allophone?
A. A phoneme is a sound unit, while an allophone is a spelling variation.
B. A phoneme is a basic sound unit, and an allophone is a variation of a phoneme.
C. A phoneme is stressed, and an allophone is unstressed.
D. A phoneme is used in formal speech, and an allophone in informal speech.
23. Which of these consonant sounds is a fricative?
A. ∕p∕
B. ∕b∕
C. ∕f∕
D. ∕t∕
24. What is the phonetic symbol for the vowel sound in 'bird′?
A. ∕ɜː∕
B. ∕ɪ∕
C. ∕ə∕
D. ∕e∕
25. What is a syllable?
A. A group of words forming a sentence.
B. A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants.
C. The smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning.
D. A pause in speech.
26. Which of the following words rhymes with 'blue′?
A. claw
B. through
C. tray
D. free
27. What is the term for the study of how speech sounds are produced?
A. Phonology
B. Phonetics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax
28. Which of the following is a plosive consonant sound?
A. ∕s∕
B. ∕m∕
C. ∕k∕
D. ∕w∕
29. In the word 'photographer′, which syllable is stressed?
A. pho-
B. -to-
C. -gra-
D. -pher
30. Which of these pairs illustrates a difference in voicing?
A. pen and ben
B. ship and sheep
C. thin and sin
D. fan and van
