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Unit 1 Introduction Achievement Test 1-3
1、 Like all languages in the world, English phonemes are also divided into vowels and consonants. The distinction between the two lies in the obstruction of ____.
A: mouth
B: airstream
C: nose
D: vocal cords
答案: airstream
2、 The ____ Pronunciation, or RP for short, is the instantly recognisable accent often described as ‘typically British’. It is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as “the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England”.
A:Renowned
B: Respected
C: Respectable
D: Received
答案: Received
3、 The vowel ____ can be described as low, front, and unrounded, but the feature “unrounded” is usually omitted because all front vowels in English are unrounded.
A:/æ/
B: /e/
C: /i:/
D: /ɒ/
答案: /æ/
4、 Syllabically, although a diphthong is a combination of two vowel sounds, and the tongue glides in the production of it, it is perceived as one phoneme, not two. Thus, diphthongs are treated as having one ____ only.
A:stress
B: syllable
C: vowel
D: allophone
答案: syllable
5、 Words such as fire /faɪə/, flour /flaʊə/, or loyal /lɔɪəl/ are considered by the native English speakers to have only one syllable, whereas higher /haɪə/ and player /pleɪə/ are more likely to be heard with disyllabic realizations because the third vowel is a ____.
A: triphthong
B: suffix
C: monophthong
D: diphthong
答案: suffix
6、 In the production of a consonant sound, the air stream from the lungs meets no obstruction of any kind in the throat, the nose, or the mouth, while in the pronunciation of a vowel, the air stream from the lungs is obstructed in one way or another.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
7、 Daniel Jones worked out a set of Cardinal Vowels that students learning phonetics could be taught to produce, the aim of which is to give an approximate picture of the degree and direction of the tongue movement involved.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
8、 /i:/ and /ɪ/ are both high front vowels, but /i:/ is a bit lower and more forward than /ɪ/. In addition, /i:/ is tense in that the root of the tongue is more advanced than with /ɪ/, which is lax.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
9、 English diphthongs are divided into both falling diphthongs (the first vowel sound is pronounced longer, louder and stronger than the second one), and rising diphthongs (the second sound is produced longer and stronger than the first
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
10、 If two adjacent vowel sounds occur in different syllables — for example, in the English word re-elect (/ˌri:ˈɪlekt/) — the result is described as hiatus not as a diphthong.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
Unit 1 Introduction Achievement tests 1-4
1、 Consonants are formed by interrupting, narrowing or diverting the airflow in a variety of ways. There are three ways of classifying the English consonant sounds: ____ of articulation, manner of articulation and voicing.
A: place
B:obstruction
C: aspiration
D:vibration
答案: place
2、 When the letter n come before g or k, it is pronounced as /ŋ/ as in strong, bang, thank, drink. However, when g is followed by e or i, the letter n is read as /n/ as in strange, stranger, arrange, longitude because the letter g is pronounced as ____.
A:/ʃ/
B:/ʒ/
C:/ʤ/
D: /ʧ/
答案: /ʤ/
3、 RP has two allophonic variants of /r/. One is retroflex [r], and the other is tapor flap [ɾ]. In the pronunciation of retroflex [r], the tongue curls backward and retroflexes at the ____.
A:front
B: central
C: tip
D:root
答案: tip
4、 The /r/ may be replaced by an alveolar tap [ɾ] in intervocalic positions (e.g. very, sorry, tomorrow) and in word-final /r/ ____ with an initial vowel (e.g. far away).
A:connecting
B: joining
C: inserting
D: linking
答案: linking
5、 Generally speaking, plosive sounds undergo three stages: the closing stage, the compression stage and the ____ stage.
A:release
B:unreleased
C:aspirated
D:unaspirated
答案: release
6、 The manner of articulation refers to the way in which the airstream is obstructed. For example, with plosive sounds, the articulation acts in such a way that the air is temporarily trapped, and then suddenly released.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
7、 Generally speaking, the place and the manner of articulation are the two common features of any languages except the voicing, which is language specific. For example, voicing is a distinctive feature of Mandarin Chinese, whereas aspiration is the distinctive feature of English.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
8、 Plosives occur when the airstream is blocked or stopped completely before its release. They are also known as stops because they involve the complete blockage of the airstream.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
9、 The sound /ŋ/ remains unchanged at the word boundaries where it is followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound as in bring it (/brɪŋɪt/) and sing us a song (/sɪŋəs ə sɒŋ/). However, in the case of adjectives, the adding of the suffixes –eror -est to the comparative and superlative degree of the words longer and longest has changed the pronunciation of /ŋ/ into /ŋɡ/.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 正确
10、 Within the class of approximants, lateral /l/ and retroflex /r/ are further distinguished from semi-vowels /j/ and /w/. This is because /j/ and /w/ are made without a restriction to the airflow. They are phonetically like consonants but phonologically like vowels.
A:正确
B:错误
答案: 错误
Unit 2 Academic Talk Achievement tests 2-4
1、 ____ stress is the relative degree of force given to a certain syllable in a word of more than one syllable when it is pronounced in isolation, as if quoted from a dictionary.
A: Nuclear
B:Word
C:Tonic
D:Sentence
答案: Word
2、 Stressed syllables bear four physiological properties: loudness, vowel duration, pitch and vowel ____.
A:intensity
B:reduction
C:quantity
D:quality
答案: quality
3、 Absence of stress on a syllable, or on a word in some cases, is frequently associated in English with vowel ____, the changes that result from unstressed syllables.
A: reduction
B:quality
C:loudness
D:pitch
答案: reduction
4、 ____, on the whole, do not have much effect on the placement of the base or root element.
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