Phonetics Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Phonetics – Quiz 8
1. Instrumental methods _____ .
A) Are based on the use of special technical devices, such as hand mirror, intonograph, xray photography and cinematography and others.
B) Are the part of the oldest phonetics researches.
C) Are methods of cheking the way of sounding of musical instruments.
D) Consist in observing the movements and positions of one's own or other people's organs of speech in pronouncing various speech sounds.
2. Question 8:.
A) Risky.
B) Liquid.
C) Preserve.
D) Forest.
3. /e/.
A) Trick.
B) Egg.
C) Vow.
D) Hike.
4. Strong or weak? $\rightarrow$ k.
A) Strong.
B) Weak.
5. The word 'seldom' has.
A) Two syllables with stress on first.
B) A) Two syllables with no stress.
C) Two syllables with stress on both.
D) Two syllables with stress on second.
6. Choose the different sound of vowel.
A) Bean.
B) Bear.
C) Peas.
D) Tea.
7. Choose the word with a different sound.
A) Key.
B) Receipt.
C) Pretty.
D) Niece.
8. I _____ a crocodile in the river.
A) Fly.
B) Saw.
C) Speed.
D) So.
9. A sound produced with a comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, is called _____ .
A) A Consonant.
B) A Word.
C) A Vowel.
D) A Power.
10. Critical listening is to.
A) See.
B) Talk.
C) Funny.
D) Judge.
11. The Earth is situated in the middle of?.
A) Venus and Mars.
B) Mars and Jupiter.
C) Mercury and Venus.
D) Mars and Mercury.
12. Which one is the odd one out?.
A) Meek.
B) Weak.
C) Break.
D) Freak.
13. Choose the word whose s/es are pronounced differently from the other words.
A) Stops.
B) Cloths.
C) Makes.
D) Clothes.
14. The phonemes /p/, /b/, & /m/ are described as _____ .
A) Labiodental.
B) Interdental.
C) Glottal.
D) Bilabial.
15. Which letter is silent in castle and nestle?.
A) N.
B) T.
C) C.
D) L.
16. Life wife mine dinner.
A) Life.
B) Wife.
C) Mine.
D) Dinner.
17. The process of phonation (or voicing) takes place in the glottis.
A) True.
B) False.
18. Which dialect is considered as Received Pronunciation?.
A) East Midland.
B) West Midlands.
C) Southern.
D) Scottish.
19. Choose 1 answer that has a different pronunciation of the ending ed than the other words.
A) Stayed.
B) Hurried.
C) Started.
D) Studied.
20. When we had passed to border we could finally relax.
A) Last sound is t.
B) Last sound is d.
C) Last sound is something else.
D) None of above.
21. What is the longest human bone?.
A) Femur.
B) Fibula.
C) Tibia.
D) Breastbone.
22. Identify the word that does not have /a:/ sound.
A) Park.
B) Dance.
C) Castle.
D) Arrow.
23. The word has stress which is placed differently.
A) Article.
B) Doctor.
C) Relieve.
D) Weaken.
24. Choose the word with a different sound.
A) PUpil.
B) StUdent.
C) Uniform.
D) ResUlt.
25. Find the word in which vowel is pronounced like /i:/!.
A) Breakfast.
B) Lip.
C) Idiot.
D) Mean.