Ngữ Âm 1

Câu 1: In a ............. consonant, the body of the tongue approaches or touches the hard
palate.

A. dental
B. velar
C. palatal
D. labiodenta
l

Câu 2: People have been aware of the importance of sounds as vehicles of meaning
for ... .
A. some years
B. a hundred years
C. a thousand years
D. a very long time

Câu 3: The fold of tissue below the root of the tongue is called the ...

A. vocal
cords
B. larynx
C. epiglottis
D. pharynx

Câu 4: In a .............. consonant, the lower and upper lips approach or touch each other.

A. dental
B. bilabial
C. labiodenta
l
 D. palatal

Câu 5: The International Phonetic Association has played a very important role in ...

A. designing conventions for using sounds in speech

B. making use of phonetic symbols that represent speech sounds
C. designing conventions for using phonetic symbols that represent speech sounds
D. using phonetic symbols for speech sounds

Câu 6: In a ............... consonant, the articulators involved in the constriction approach
get close enough to each other to create a turbulent air-stream.

A. lateral
B. fricative
C. nasal
D. stop

Câu 7: The small, dangly thing at the back of the soft palate is called the ...
A. larynx
B. dorsu
m
C. uvula
D. glottis

Câu 8: Which of the CAPITALISED letters in the following pairs have the same
pronunciation?
A. seiZure - garaGE
B. poSSession -
miSSion
C. iSland - hiStory
D. enouGH - thorouGH

Câu 9: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT?

A. The manner of articulation tells where in the vocal tract the constriction occurs.
 B. The manner of articulation tells whether air is flowing through the nose.
C. The manner of articulation tells whether the tongue is dropped down on one side.
D. The manner of articulation tells how narrow the constriction is.

Câu 10: Systematic studies on the speech sounds only appeared with

A. the development of foreign language learning

B. the modern life
C. the development of tape recorders
D. the development of modern sciences

Câu 11: Sounds which are made with vocal fold vibration are said to be ..........
A. affricate
B. voiceles
s
C. voiced
D. lateral

Câu 12: In a ............. consonant, the body of the tongue approaches or touches the soft
palate.

A. velar
B. bilabial
C. glottal
D. postaveolar

Câu 13: Auditory phonetics is concerned with the ...

A. transmittion of phonetic sounds of words of a language.

B. description of phonetic sounds of words of a language.
C. production of phonetic sounds of words of a language.
D. hearing of phonetic sounds of words of a language.

Câu 14: Which of the following statement is NOT CORRECT?

 A. The objective of phonemic analysis to establish what the phonemes are and arrive
at the phonemic inventory of the language.
B. A large number of phonologists have believed that it is necessary to go beyond
phonemic analysis.
C. The objective of phonemic analysis to establish what the phonetic sounds are and
arrive at the phonemic inventory of the language.
D. The most basic activity in phonology is phonemic analysis.

Câu 15: Articulatory phonetics generally refers to the study of how humans ...

A. perceive speech sound

B. interact with speech
sounds
C. transmit speech sounds
D. produce speech sounds

Câu 16: Which of the following DOES NOT belong to the major dimensions of
consonant classification?

A. manner of
articulation
B. place of articulation
C. voicing
D. pronunciation

Câu 17: Some fundamental distinctions between phonetics and phonology will be agreed
about by ...
A. most students
B. most linguists
C. most teachers
D. most language users

Câu 18: Phonotactics is mainly concerned with the way in which ...

 A. words can combine in a language
B. consonants can combine in a
language
C. vowels can combine in a language
D. sounds can combine in a language

Câu 19: The term phonetics comes from the ...

A. Geek language
B. English
language
C. Latin language
D. Italian language

Câu 20:
The structuralism emphasizes the essential contrastive role of classes of sounds which are
labeled ...
A. phonology
B. phones
C. phonetics
D. phonemes

Câu 21: The English t, d, and k are....

A. nasals
B. fricatives
C. approximants
D. stops

Câu 22: The term phonology first appeared in ...

A. the end of the 18th century

B. the end of the 19th century
C. the early of the 18th century
 D. the early of the 19th century

Câu 23: The place of articulation of a consonant specifies ..........

A. whether air is flowing through the nose

B. whether the tongue is dropped down on one
side
C. how narrow the constriction is
D. where in the vocal tract the narrowing occurs

Câu 24: The lowest part of the tongue in the throat is called the ...

A. epiglottis
B. tongue root
C. dorsum
D. tongue
blade

Câu 25: The opening between the vocal cords is called the

A. nasal cavity
B. oral cavity
C. glottis
D. epiglottis

Câu 26: "Distinctive features" are mainly concerned with

A. the detailed characteristics of each unit

B. the detailed rules of each unit
C. the detailed articulation of each unit
D. the detailed transcription of each unit

Câu 27: The soft portion of the roof of the mouth, lying behind the hard palate is called
the ...
 A. uvula
B. velum
C. palate
D. cavity

Câu 28: The terms phonetics and phonology was used indiscriminately until...

A. the end of the 20th century

B. the first half of the 19th century
C. the end of the 19th century
D. the first half of the 20th century

Câu 29: In producing a consonant there is a ........... in the vocal tract.

A. constriction
B. opening
C. construction
D. height

Câu 30: Which of the following DOES NOT belong to suprasegmental phonology ?

A. transcriptio
n
B. intonation
C. stress
D. rhythm

Câu 31: The major difference between the two consonants /f/ and /v/ is the ......

A. voicing
B. manner of articulation
C. place of articulation
D. sound class
Câu 32: Which of the following is NOT CORRECT
The central concerns in phonetics are the discovery of ...

A. how they are used in written language

B. how we hear and recognise different sounds
C. how we can record speech sounds with written symbols
D. how speech sounds are produced

Câu 33: The structure that holds and manipulates the vocal cords is called the ...

A. velum
B. pharyn
x
C. glottis
D. larynx

Câu 34: The hard portion of the roof of the mouth is called the ...
A. velum
B. uvula
C. hard
palate
D. soft palate

Câu 35: The main part of the tongue, lying below the hard and soft palate is called the ...
A. tongue
B. dorsum
C. tongue root
D. tongue
blade

Ngữ Âm 2
Câu 1: The beginning sounds of the syllable are called the .............
A. rhyme
 B. coda
C. onset
D. nucleu
s

Câu 2: Which of the following pairs of words have different diphthongs?

A. dough - plough
B. mare - prayer
C. aisle - dyke
D. ace - gaol

Câu 3: The substitutability of one sound for another in a given environment, with no
change in the word’s meaning is called ...

A. distribution
B. free variation
C. a near minimal pair
D. a minimal pair

Câu 4: Which of the following pairs of words have the same diphthong?
A. mayor - taylor
B. height - take
C. bourse - mature
D. pure - future

Câu 5: The core or essential part of a syllable is called the ..............

A. coda
B. nucleus
C. rhyme
D. onset

Câu 6: Which of the following consonant clusters is impossible in English?

 A. [skj]
B. [spw]
C. [spl]
D. [skw
]

Câu 7: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. In English and most other languages, most syllable nuclei are vowels.
B. Most speakers of English find it difficult to divide a word up into its component
syllables.
C. A syllable is a unit of sound composed of only a central peak of sonority.
D. The smallest possible syllable contains a nucleus and a coda.

Câu 8: Pairs of words which differ in one sound only and have different meanings are
called ...

A. near minimal pairs

B. close pairs
C. minimal pairs
D. different pairs

Câu 9: Which of the following are described as [+ vocalic]?

A. Obstruents
B. Glides
C. Vowels
D. Liquids

Câu 10: ........... represent the placement of the body of the tongue.

A. Dorsal features
B. Laryngeal features
C. Place features
D. Manner features
Câu 11: The word 'tomato' consists of ......
A. two syllables
B. one syllable
C. three syllables
D. four syllables

Câu 12: Which of the following word lists has different vowels?

A. sought, tough, cough, could

B. carpet, bath, hearth, aunt
C. suit, shoe, rule, route
D. push, wolf, should, pull

Câu 13: A phonetic transcription is also called a....

A. phonemic transcription
B. broad transcription
C. narrow transcription
D. detail transcription

Câu 14: Which of the following is the description of the sound /i:/?

A. A more retracted front, short, lax, unrounded vowel

B. A front, short, lax, unrounded vowel
C. A front, close (high), long, tense, unrounded vowel
D. A lowest, front, short, lax, unrounded vowel

Câu 15: Which of the following consonant clusters is is example of "Coronal +

sonorant"?

A. [spw
]
B. [spl]
 C. [str]
D. [skl]

Câu 16: The most important feature of a diphthong is that it ...

A. contains a glide from one vowel quality to another one.

B. ends in /w/ and /u/.
C. is a combination of more than two vowels.
D. begins with /e/, /a/ or /o/.

Câu 17: Complementary distribution is an indication that the sounds in question are ...

A. minimal pairs
B. phones
C. phonemes
D. allophones of the same phoneme

Câu 18: A physical language sound, measurable by acoustic instruments is called ...

A. a phoneme
B. a minimal
pair
C. a phone
D. an allophone

Câu 19: Which of the following word lists has the same vowel?

A. should, through, rule, route

B. could, routine, source, journal
C. quay, each, people, key
D. many, fat, act, sad

Câu 20: Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

 A. Syllables don't serve any meaning-signalling function in language.
B. Most speakers of English have no trouble dividing a word up into its component
syllables.
C. A word contains at least two syllables.
D. Syllables exist only to make speech easier for the brain to process.

Câu 21: A phoneme is put between ....

A. square boxes
B. square
brackets
C. slash brackets
D. round boxes

Câu 22: Contrastive distribution is an indication that the two sounds in question are ...

A. different phonemes
B. allophones of the same phoneme
C. different phones
D. similar phonemes

Câu 23: Which of the following is the description of the sound /Z/?

A. A central, mid, long, tense central vowel

B. A short, lax, open and slightly rounded
C. A front, short, lax, unrounded vowel
D. A long, tense, rounded vowel

Câu 24: Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. Phonemes vary from language to language.
B. Allophones are unpredictable.
C. You never hear same phone twice.
D. Phonemes are abstract sounds stored in our memory.
Câu 25: Which of the following words is English or possible in English?

A. pim
k
B. pimd
C. pim
b
D. pimt

Câu 26: In the following words which underlined letter is pronounced /i:/?

A. tick
B. machin
e
C. minute
D. win

Câu 27: In making these vowels: /w/, /i:/, , /u:/ space between the tongue and the roof of
the mouth is.......

A. relatively
narrow
B. very narrow
C. relatively wide
D. very wide

Câu 28: The following statement describes which aspect of vowel classification?

"Vowels are classified in terms of how much space there is between the tongue and the
roof of the mouth".
A. lip rounding
B. tongue
backness
C. vowel length
D. tongue height
Câu 29: Which of the following is NOT a minimal pair?

A. rat - sad
B. cat - sat
C. sad - sat
D. rat -
mat

Câu 30: The syllable structure of the word "strength" is ..........

A. CCCVCC
B. CCVCC
C. CVCC
D. CCCVC

Câu 31:
The sounds /w/ and /æ/ are examples of ...
A. back vowels
B. unrounded
vowels
C. long vowels
D. rounded vowels

Câu 32: Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. The rhyme may consist of only the nucleus.
B. The rhyme never precedes the onset.
C. The rhyme may consist of a nucleus and a coda.
D. The rhyme may consist of an onset and a nucleus.

Câu 33: Allophones are ...

A. in complementary distribution

B. language sounds as they are perceived by a speaker
 C. physical language sounds
D. similar to phonemes

Câu 34: The sounds /i:/ and /u:/ are examples of ... .

A. back vowels
B. lax vowels
C. short vowels
D. tense
vowels

Câu 35: Phonemes are ...

A. organizable
B. predictable
C. concrete phonetic segments
D. non-contrastive

Ngữ Âm 3
Câu 1: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'my orange' in
rapid speech?
A. my + j + orange
B. my orange
C. my + w +
orange
D. none is correct

Câu 2: 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 3: The movement of pitch within an intonation unit is referred to as ...............

A. the intonation contour of that unit.

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

Câu 4: The word 'as' in the phrase ‘As much as possible’

A. has the strong form

B. None is correct.
C. has the weak form
D. has both strong and weak forms

Câu 5: 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 voice.
C. Intonation is the melodic pattern of an utterance
D. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the sound.

Câu 6: 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 7: In order to keep the rhythm of English, some sounds in a sentence have to
be ...........
A. compressed
B. changed
C. lengthened
D. replaced
Câu 8: In writing the difference between the strong form and the weak form of a word
is ...........
A. not apparent
B. apparent
C. not unclear
D. well defined

Câu 9: 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. varied
D. deleted

Câu 10: When a stop is followed by another stop or affricate, the first stop is

A. not release
B. aspirated
C. released
D. not released or aspirated

Câu 11: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'mend it' in
rapid speech?
A. men -
dit
B. mend it
C. me -
ndit
D. m-endit

Câu 12: In rapid speech, the word “grandpa” is pronounced as ....

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

Câu 13: In the word 'pronunciation', the primary stress is on the ......................
A. fourth syllable
B. third syllable
C. second
syllable
D. first syllable

Câu 14: A weak form is the pronunciation of a word or syllable in ...................

A. an open manner

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

Câu 15: 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-j-a new team
C. Employ-r-a new team
D. Employ-w-a new team

Câu 16: In a stress-timed language, stressed syllables are .....................................

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

Câu 17: The suffix 's' in the word 'dogs' is pronounced as [z] ([dogz]). This is an
example of...
 A. coalescent assimilation
B. progressive
assimilation
C. deletion
D. regressive assimilation

Câu 18: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'look out' in
rapid speech?
A. loo - kout
B. loo - kout and loo-k-out are correct
C. look-out
D. loo-k-out

Câu 19: Which of the following statement is CORRECT?

A. In coalescent assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects the
following 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 progressive assimilation the conditioning sound follows and affects the
preceding sound.

Câu 20: Coalescent assimilation is also referred to as a type of ....

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

Câu 21: Intonation involves ...............

A. the variation of accent and pronunciation.

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

Câu 22: In which of the following sentences does the word 'there' has the weak form?

A. Put it there.
B. There it is
C. There should be a suggestion.
D. You shouldn't go there.

Câu 23: 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. Both Back chair and Back door are correct
C. Back yard
D. Back door

Câu 24: Which of the following words has the second syllable stressed?

A. technician
B. geometric
C. understand
D. graduation

Câu 25: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A toy and a
game' in rapid speech?
A. A toy an-da game
B. A toy-and-a game
C. A toy-j-and a game
D. A toy-j-an-da
game
Câu 26: 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 redoes a sequence of segments.
D. Metathesis is a process that reorders a sequence of segments.

Câu 27: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT?

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

Câu 28: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'How
interesting!' in rapid speech?
A. How-w-
interesting
B. How-u-interesting
C. How-j-interesting
D. How interesting

Câu 29: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT

A. In every word in English, there is one main emphasized syllable.

B. You can be better understood if you place the stress where it should be when
you're speaking.
C. The vowel sound in a stressed syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder.
D. The vowel sound in a syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder.

Câu 30: The relative highness or lowness of the voice is known as ........

A. rhythm
B. pitch
C. melody
D. stress
Câu 31: Which of the following categories does not belong to content words?

A. Conjunction
s
B. Nouns
C. Adjectives
D. Adverbs

Câu 32: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A cow and a
buffalo' in rapid speech?
A. A cow-w-and a buffallo
B. A cow an-da buffallo
C. A cow-w-an-da buffallo
D. A cow-and-buffallo

Câu 33: Which of the following is not a rule of sentence stress?

A. Structure words are unstressed.

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

Câu 34: Knowing how to recognize the stressed syllable ........................

A. will improve your vocabulary

B. will help you with reading
C. will help you with comprehension
D. will make you better understood

Câu 35: In English, stress helps create ................

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