TEST ITEMS: MPHIL ENTRY TEST

PROGRAMME: LINGUISTICS
DEPARTMENT: ENGLISH
YEAR: 2023
ITEM RECOGNITION: MCQ

CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION FOR THE GAP.

1. World Englishes displays ________ language use.

a. monocentric b. bicentric c. tricentric d. multicentric
2. Iranian historical richness of English use seems to have been _______radicalized.
a. politically b. financially c. globally d. economically
3. There is ___________trend of Indian English promotion in Asian Indian communities.
a. an infrequent b. a frequent c. never a d. a visible
4. Language use is rather a _________part of human communication if its semantic and
syntactic organizations are made describable for the subject of World Englishes.
a. behavioral b. mental c. traumatic d. computational
5. Language use in the postmodern times is ______rich to simplify in a code.
a. not b. too c. hardly d. fairly
6. There is a possibility of limiting _________displacement of English varieties for mutual
intelligibility.
a. social b. individual c. linguistic d. physical
7. A __________arrangement of language use has been improved with the nation-state system.
a. premodern b. postmodern c.modernised d. modern
8. _________English pronunciation is popular in Pakistani speech communities.
a. American b. British c. Australian d. Canadian
9. A phoneme is an ___________ organization of a human sound for speech.
a. intelligent b. inhuman c. imaginative d. English
10. The airstream sucked in the human body is a ___________activation of specific human
sounds production for communication.
a. planned b. preplanned c. postplanned d. badly planned
11. The meaning significance is highlighted with a communal repetition of a differentiational
increase in the combination of pitch and _________in a timed language phrasal production.
a. contour b. character c. place d. loudness
12. The speech sound produced by the ________supported body parts is computationally
originated, fixed and syllabified at the tongue free and/or in contact with the speech
articulators.
a. brain b. heart c. lungs d. vocal folds
13. /k/ is a consonant _________.
a. phone b. phoneme c. frame d. force
14. __________is a long vowel in the pronunciation of the word fast.
a. /e/ b. /f/ c. /i/ d. /a:/
15. The word stress is on the ___________ syllable of the pronunciation of the word older.
a. first b. second c. third d. fourth