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 BÀI KT 3 NGỮ ÂM HỌC

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Câu 1: The movement of pitch within an intonation unit is referred to as ...............

A. the intonation contour of that sentence.
B. the intonation of that sentence.
C. the intonation contour of that unit.
D. the intonation of that unit.

Câu 2: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'Employ a new
team' in rapid speech?
A. Employ a new team
B. Employ-w-a new team
C. Employ-r-a new team
D. Employ-j-a new team

Câu 3: When a stop is followed by another stop or affricate, the first stop is
A. aspirated
B. not released or aspirated
C. not release
D. released

Câu 4: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT?

A. Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence
B. Like word stress, sentence stress can help us to understand written English X
C. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".
D. Word stress is accent on one syllable within a word.

Câu 5: In order to keep the rhythm of English, some sounds in a sentence have to be
...........
A. changed
B. compressed
C. lengthened
D. replaced

Câu 6: In a stress-timed language, stressed syllables are .....................................

A. varied in timing
B. sometimes more prominent than unstressed syllables
C. equal in timing
D. sometimes less prominent than unstressed syllables

Câu 7: In rapid speech, the word “grandpa” is pronounced as ....

A. [`gramdpa] 53:25
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B. [`grændpa]
C. [`græmpa]
D. [`grænpa]

Câu 8: A weak form is the pronunciation of a word or syllable in ...................

A. a stressed manner
B. a distorted manner
C. an unstressed manner
D. an open manner

Câu 9: In writing the difference between the strong form and the weak form of a word is
...........
A. not apparent
B. not unclear
C. well defined
D. apparent

Câu 10: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'mend it' in
rapid speech?
A. mend it
B. men - dit
C. me - ndit
D. m-endit

Câu 11: In the question ‘What’s he looking at?’, the word 'at' has ...........................
A. both strong and weak forms
B. the strong from
C. the weak form
D. None is correct

Câu 12: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A cow and a
buffalo' in rapid speech?
A. A cow-w-an-da buffallo
B. A cow-w-and a buffallo
C. A cow-and-buffallo
D. A cow an-da buffallo

Câu 13: Which of the following is not a rule of sentence stress?

A. Structure words are unstressed.
B. The time between stressed words is always the same.
C. The last word of a question is always stressed.
D. Content words are stressed.

Câu 14: Which of the following words has the second syllable stressed?
A. understand
B. graduation
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D. geometric

Câu 15: Knowing how to recognize the stressed syllable ........................

A. will improve your vocabulary
B. will help you with reading
C. will make you better understood
D. will help you with comprehension

Câu 16: Intonation involves ...............

A. the rising and falling of the voice to various pitch levels during the articulation of
an utterance.
B. the variation of accent and pronunciation.
C. the variation of stress and rhythm.
D. the rising and falling of the melody to various pitch levels during the articulation of
an utterance.

Câu 17: In which of the following examples, the sound [t] at the end of the first word is
NOT RELEASED or ASPIRATED?
A. Back chair
B. Back door
C. Both Back chair and Back door are correct
D. Back yard

Câu 18: Which of the following statement is CORRECT?

A. In progressive assimilation the conditioning sound follows and affects the
preceding sound.
B. . In progressive assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects the
following sound.
C. In regressive assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects the
following sound.
D. In coalescent assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects the
following sound.

Câu 19: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'How
interesting!' in rapid speech?
A. How interesting
B. How-j-interesting
C. How-u-interesting
D. How-w-interesting

Câu 20: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'look out' in
rapid speech?
A. loo - kout and loo-k-out are correct
B. loo-k-out
C. look-out
D. loo - kout

Câu 21: In the word 'pronunciation', the primary stress is on the ...................... 53:25
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A. fourth syllable
B. second syllable
C. third syllable
D. first syllable

Câu 22: In English, stress helps create ................

A. the rhythm of the language
B. the pronunciation of the language
C. the pitch of the language
D. the speed of the language

Câu 23: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT

A. The vowel sound in a stressed syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder.
B. In every word in English, there is one main emphasized syllable.
C. You can be better understood if you place the stress where it should be when you're
speaking.
D. The vowel sound in a syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder.

Câu 24: The word 'as' in the phrase ‘As much as possible’
A. has the weak form
B. None is correct.
C. has both strong and weak forms
D. has the strong form

Câu 25: In which of the following sentences does the word 'there' has the weak form?
A. There it is
B. You shouldn't go there.
C. There should be a suggestion.
D. Put it there.

Câu 26: If the consonants (whether stop or not) are identical, the consonant is
somewhat__________, the two consonants are not articulated separately
A. shortened
B. lengthened
C. deleted
D. varied

Câu 27: Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. Metathesis is a process that deletes a sequence of segments.
B. Metathesis is a process that reverses a sequence of segments.
C. Metathesis is a process that reorders a sequence of segments.
D. Metathesis is a process that redoes a sequence of segments.

Câu 28: Coalescent assimilation is also referred to as a type of ....

A. supporting assimilation
B. complementary assimilation
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D. contrasting assimilation

Câu 29: The relative highness or lowness of the voice is known as ........
A. melody
B. rhythm
C. stress
D. pitch

Câu 30: Which of the following statements is not correct?

A. Intonation conveys differences of expressive meaning.
B. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the sound.
C. Intonation is the melodic pattern of an utterance
D. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice.

Câu 31: Which of the following categories does not belong to content words?
A. Conjunctions
B. Adjectives
C. Adverbs
D. Nouns

Câu 32: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'my orange' in
rapid speech?
A. my + j + orange
B. none is correct
C. my + w + orange
D. my orange

Câu 33: The suffix 's' in the word 'dogs' is pronounced as [z] ([dogz]). This is an example
of...
A. coalescent assimilation
B. deletion
C. regressive assimilation
D. progressive assimilation

Câu 34: If the intonation falls to the low level (1) [a terminal fall], it signals ..................
A. uncertainty
B. certainty
C. an incomplete thought
D. a question

Câu 35: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A toy and a
game' in rapid speech?
A. A toy-and-a game
B. A toy an-da game
C. A toy-j-an-da game
D. A toy-j-and a game
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