1 Thời gian làm bài 60 phút:

Câu Trả lời Ghi chú

1 A Sai
2 A Đúng
3 B Đúng
4 D Đúng
5 C Đúng
6 C Đúng
7 A Đúng
8 A Đúng
9 C Đúng
10 C Đúng
11 D Đúng
12 A Đúng
13 A Đúng
14 D Đúng
15 B Đúng
16 A Đúng
17 A Đúng
18 D Đúng
19 D Đúng
20 B Sai
21 D Đúng
22 B Đúng
23 A Đúng
24 B Sai
25 B Đúng
26 A Đúng
27 D Đúng
28 B Đúng
29 C Đúng
 30 C Đúng
31 D Đúng
32 C Đúng
33 C Đúng
34 A Đúng
35 A Đúng

Câu 1: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'Employ a
new team' in rapid speech?

A. Employ-w-a new
team

B. Employ-r-a new team

C. Employ a new team

D. Employ-j-a new team

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

A. the intonation contour of that unit.

B. the intonation of that sentence.

 C. the intonation of that unit.

D. the intonation contour of that

sentence.

Câu 3: Intonation involves ...............

A. the rising and falling of the melody to various pitch levels during the
articulation of an utterance.

B. the rising and falling of the voice to various pitch levels during the
articulation of an utterance.

C. the variation of accent and pronunciation.

D. the variation of stress and rhythm.

Câu 4: 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 5: 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 6: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'my orange'
in rapid speech?

A. none is correct
 B. my + w +
orange

C. my + j + orange

D. my orange

Câu 7: 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 8: If the intonation falls to the low level (1) [a terminal fall], it
signals ..................

A. certainty
 B. an incomplete
thought

C. uncertainty

D. a question

Câu 9: Which of the following statements is not correct?

A. Intonation conveys differences of expressive meaning.

B. Intonation is the melodic pattern of an utterance

C. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the

sound.

D. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the

voice.

Câu 10: 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 11: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT?

A. Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence

B. Word stress is accent on one syllable within a word.

C. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".

D. Like word stress, sentence stress can help us to understand written

English X

Câu 12: If the consonants (whether stop or not) are identical, the consonant is
somewhat__________, the two consonants are not articulated separately

A. lengthene
d

B. varied

C. deleted

D. shortened

Câu 13: The relative highness or lowness of the voice is known as ........

A. pitch

B. stress

C. melod
y

D. rhythm

Câu 14: In order to keep the rhythm of English, some sounds in a sentence have to
be ...........

A. lengthened
 B. changed

C. replaced

D. compressed

Câu 15: In which of the following sentences does the word 'there' has the weak form?

A. You shouldn't go there.

B. There should be a
suggestion.

C. Put it there.

D. There it is

Câu 16: In the question ‘What’s he looking at?’, the word 'at' has ...........................

A. the strong from

 B. None is correct

C. the weak form

D. both strong and weak

forms

Câu 17: In writing the difference between the strong form and the weak form of a
word is ...........

A. not
apparent

B. well defined

C. not unclear

D. apparent

Câu 18: In a stress-timed language, stressed syllables are .....................................

A. sometimes more prominent than unstressed

syllables
 B. sometimes less prominent than unstressed syllables

C. varied in timing

D. equal in timing

Câu 19: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'How
interesting!' in rapid speech?

A. How interesting

B. How-u-interesting

C. How-j-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-k-out
 B. loo - kout and loo-k-out are
correct

C. look-out

D. loo - kout

Câu 21: Which of the following statement is CORRECT?

A. In coalescent assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects

the following sound.

B. In regressive assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and affects

the following sound.

C. In progressive assimilation the conditioning sound follows and affects

the preceding sound.

D. . In progressive assimilation the conditioning sound precedes and

affects the following sound.

Câu 22: A weak form is the pronunciation of a word or syllable in ...................

 A. a stressed manner

B. an unstressed
manner

C. an open manner

D. a distorted manner

Câu 23: Which of the following categories does not belong to content words?

A. Conjunction
s

B. Nouns

C. Adjectives

D. Adverbs

Câu 24: In rapid speech, the word “grandpa” is pronounced as ....

 A. [`gramdpa
]

B. [`grændpa]

C. [`græmpa]

D. [`grænpa]

Câu 25: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'mend it'
in rapid speech?

A. m-endit

B. men - dit

C. mend it

D. me -
ndit

Câu 26: Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT

 A. The vowel sound in a syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and
louder.

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

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

A. has both strong and weak

forms

B. has the strong form

C. None is correct.

D. has the weak form

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

A. complementary
assimilation

B. reciprocal assimilation

C. contrasting assimilation

D. supporting assimilation

Câu 29: The suffix 's' in the word 'dogs' is pronounced as [z] ([dogz]). This is an
example of...

A. regressive assimilation

B. deletion

C. progressive
assimilation

D. coalescent assimilation
Câu 30: 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 31: In the word 'pronunciation', the primary stress is on the ......................

A. third syllable

B. first syllable

C. second
syllable

D. fourth syllable
Câu 32: Which of the following words has the second syllable stressed?

A. graduation

B. understan
d

C. technician

D. geometric

Câu 33: Which of the following is the possible pronunciation of the words: 'A cow
and a buffalo' in rapid speech?

A. A cow an-da buffallo

B. A cow-and-buffallo

C. A cow-w-an-da
buffallo

D. A cow-w-and a buffallo
Câu 34: In which of the following examples, the sound [t] at the end of the first word
is NOT RELEASED or ASPIRATED?

A. Both Back chair and Back door are

correct

B. Back door

C. Back chair

D. Back yard

Câu 35: Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. Metathesis is a process that reorders a sequence of

segments.

B. Metathesis is a process that redoes a sequence of segments.

C. Metathesis is a process that deletes a sequence of segments.

D. Metathesis is a process that reverses a sequence of

segments.