30 CÂU HỎI
Which consonant cluster is the onset in the word "streets"?
A. /sr/
B. /tr/
C. /str/
D. /ts/
... is defined as the prominence given to certain syllables in a word by the use of greater breath force.
A. Rhythm
B. Word-stress
C. Timbre
D. Assimilation
Which of the following factors cannot be used to produce word-stress?
A. Loudness
B. Length
C. Pitch
D. Meaning
Where does the stress fall on the word "family" and "cinema"?
A. On the first syllable
B. On the last syllable
C. On the second syllable
D. On the last but one
Which of the following words has the stress not fallen on the first syllable from the beginning?
A. Family
B. Cinema
C. Intellect
D. Advantage
Which of the following words has the stress on the suffix added to the word?
A. Readable
B. Photography
C. Mountaineer
D. Speaking
Which of the following words has the place of stress unchanged when a suffix is added to the word?
A. Entertainment
B. Evacuee
C. Proverbial
D. Expensive/Advantageous
Which of the following words has the shifted stress when a suffix is added?
A. Advantage - Advantageous
B. Read - Readable
C. Govern - Government
D. Wide - Widen
Which of the following words has the stress on the last syllable?
A. Mountaineer
B. Teaching
C. Photography
D. Perfection
Which of the following words has the case of varied stress?
A. Widely
B. Looking
C. Ice-cream
D. Climate
Speech melody, a component of intonation, is the variation in...
A. Tempo of speech
B. Sentence stress
C. The pitch of the voice
D. Special coloring of the voice
Vietnamese is a ... language.
A. Tone
B. Intonation
C. Inflectional
D. Agglutinating
... consists of a fall of the pitch of the voice from a fairly high note to a very low note.
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
W/H questions are usually spoken with...
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
... is said to give an impression of finality.
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
... is used in simple statements of fact, special questions, commands, exclamations, or offers to do something.
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
... expresses politeness, apology, concern, uncertainty, or disagreement.
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
... might be used to express attitudes both pleasant and unpleasant, ranging from irony to admiration.
A. The Fall
B. The Rise
C. The Fall-Rise
D. The Rise-Fall
A tonic syllable is a syllable where the major change in... occurs.
A. Rhythm
B. Pitch
C. Assimilation
D. Pronunciation
Which of the following is not a function of intonation?
A. Emotional
B. Grammatical
C. Textual
D. None of the above
Which of the following is not true?
A. In English, the stress always falls on the last syllable of any word
B. French is the language where the last syllable is usually stressed
C. Polish is the language where the penultimate syllable is usually stressed
D. Czech is the language where the first syllable is stressed
How many syllables are there in the word "garden"?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Which of the following syllable divisions is correct?
A. Ger.ma.ny
B. Germ.any
C. German.y
D. Ger.many
Which of the following syllables has the structure of a vowel?
A. Talk
B. Learn
C. Or
D. At
Which of the following syllables has the structure of Consonant + Vowel?
A. Learn
B. Sea
C. Sit
D. At
Which of the following rules govern the syllable division of the word "study"?
A. The English long vowels always occur in a phonetically open syllable when they are separated from a following syllabic sound by only one consonant
B. The English diphthong always occur in a phonetically open syllable when they are separated from a following syllabic sound by only one consonant
C. The English unstressed vowels always occur in a phonetically open syllable when they are separated from a following syllabic sound by only one consonant
D. A short stressed vowel when separated from a following syllabic sound by only one consonant always occur in a closed syllable, although it is difficult to tell where the point of syllable division is
Which of the following words contains a syllable of the type C + syllabic C?
A. Little
B. Read
C. Can
D. Eye
Which of the following syllables is an open syllable?
A. Meat
B. Reach
C. Do
D. Sit
Which of the following syllables is a closed syllable?
A. Me
B. Heart
C. Oh
D. Sit
... is a prominence with which one or more words in a sentence are pronounced.
A. Assimilation
B. Sentence stress
C. Wordgroup
D. Phoneme