Câu 1: 

If the intonation falls to the low level (1) [a terminal fall], it

signals ..................
A. certainty
B. uncertainty
C. an incomplete thought
D. a question

Câu 2: In a stress-timed language, stressed syllables are .....................................

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

Câu 3: The word 'as' in the phrase ‘As much as possible’

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

Câu 4: Which of the following words has the second syllable stressed?

A. technician
B. graduation
C. geometric
D. understan
d

Câu 5: 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 6: The relative highness or lowness of the voice is known as ........

A. rhythm
B. melody
C. pitch
D. stress

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

Câu 2: In a stress-timed language, stressed syllables are .....................................

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

Câu 3: The word 'as' in the phrase ‘As much as possible’

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

Câu 4: Which of the following words has the second syllable stressed?

A. technician
B. graduation
C. geometric
D. understan
d

Câu 5: 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 6: The relative highness or lowness of the voice is known as ........

A. rhythm
B. melod
y
C. pitch
D. stress

Câu 7: Knowing how to recognize the stressed syllable ........................

A. will help you with

comprehension
B. will make you better understood
C. will improve your vocabulary
D. will help you with reading
Câu 8: Coalescent assimilation is also referred to as a type of ....

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

Câu 9: In order to keep the rhythm of English, some sounds in a sentence have to
be ...........
A. compressed
B. replaced
C. lengthened
D. changed

Câu 10: 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-and-buffallo
D. A cow-w-an-da
buffallo

Câu 11: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'How
interesting!' in rapid speech?
A. How interesting
B. How-w-
interesting
C. How-j-interesting
D. How-u-interesting

Câu 12: In the question ‘What’s he looking at?’, the word 'at' has ...........................
A. the strong from
 B. the weak form
C. None is correct
D. both strong and weak
forms
Câu 13: When a stop is followed by another stop or affricate, the first stop is

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

Câu 14: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT

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

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

Câu 15: Which of the following statement is CORRECT?

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

Câu 16: Which of the following statements is not correct?

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

Câu 17: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'mend
it' in rapid speech?
A. men - dit
B. me - ndit
C. m-endit
D. mend it

Câu 18: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'look
out' in rapid speech?
A. loo - kout
B. look-out
C. loo - kout and loo-k-out are
correct
D. loo-k-out
Câu 19: In which of the following sentences does the word 'there' has the weak
form?

A. You shouldn't go there.

B. Put it there.
C. There it is
D. There should be a
suggestion.

Câu 20: If the consonants (whether stop or not) are identical, the consonant is
somewhat__________, the two consonants are not articulated separately

A. deleted
B. varied
C. shortened
 D. lengthene
d

Câu 21: 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 22: In English, stress helps create ................

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

Câu 23: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words:

'Employ a new team' in rapid speech?

A. Employ-j-a new team

B. Employ-w-a new
team
C. Employ a new team
D. Employ-r-a new team

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

A. Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence
B. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".
C. Like word stress, sentence stress can help us to understand written English
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D. Word stress is accent on one syllable within a word.
Câu 25: A weak form is the pronunciation of a word or syllable in ...................

A. a stressed manner

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

Câu 26: The movement of pitch within an intonation unit is referred to

as ...............

A. the intonation of that sentence.

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

Câu 27: In the word 'pronunciation', the primary stress is on the ......................
A. second
syllable
B. first syllable
C. third syllable
D. fourth syllable

Câu 28: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A toy
and a game' in rapid speech?
A. A toy-j-an-da
game
B. A toy an-da game
C. A toy-j-and a game
D. A toy-and-a game

Câu 29: In rapid speech, the word “grandpa” is pronounced as ....

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

Câu 30: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'my
orange' in rapid speech?
A. my + w +
orange
B. my + j + orange
C. my orange
D. none is correct
Câu 31: 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 32: In which of the following examples, the sound [t] at the end of the first
word is NOT RELEASED or ASPIRATED?
A. Back door
B. Back chair
C. Both Back chair and Back door are
correct
D. Back yard

Câu 33: Intonation involves ...............

A. the variation of stress and rhythm.

B. the variation of accent and pronunciation.
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 34: Which of the following categories does not belong to content words?

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

Câu 35: In writing the difference between the strong form and the weak form of a
word is ...........
A. apparent
B. not unclear
C. not
apparent
D. well
defined