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милашка 2.

Total questions: 75

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following two aspects do not refer to branches of phonetics?

a)

acoustic aspect

b)

syntactic aspect

c)

articulatory aspect

d)

grammatical

e)

functional aspect

2.

Who investigated the problems of phoneme theory in the languages?

a)

V.V. Vinogradov

b)

L.V. Shcherba

c)

I.R.Galperin

d)

I.V. Arnold

e)

I.A. Boudouin de Courtenay

3.

: Name the stages of articulation of the English speech sounds?

a)

interpenetration of stages

b)

the on-glide

c)

merging of stages

d)

the off-glide

e)

assimilation

4.

Name the degrees of assimilation of English sounds:

a)

progressive

b)

complete

c)

incomplete

d)

double

e)

loss of plosion

5.

According to the stability of articulation English vowels are subdivided into …

a)

open vowels

b)

diphthongs

c)

central vowels

d)

plossives

e)

diphthongoids

6.

What processes can cause sound alternations?

a)

vowel shift

b)

assimilation

c)

word building.

d)

accommodation

e)

duration

7.

Find the cases of vowel alternation:

a)

speak - speech

b)

write – wrote - written

c)

bath - bathe

d)

loss - lose

e)

sing – sang - sung

8.

Find the cases of consonant alternation:

a)

write – wrote - written

b)

speak - speech

c)

important - importance

d)

wise - wisdom

e)

foot - feet

9.

Find the cases of vowel-consonant alternation:

a)

man - men

b)

live - life

c)

take – took - taken

d)

loss - lose

e)

wise - wisdom

10.

What are the two kinds of breathing?

a)

duration

b)

inhalation

c)

tembre

d)

exhalation

e)

rhythm

11.

Name the significant variations of Intonation:

a)

syllable

b)

tempo

c)

tembre

d)

exhalation

e)

phrase

12.

: Pitch levels can be.....

a)

narrow

b)

high

c)

wide

d)

low

e)

small

13.

: Name the sections of Intonation group:

a)

head (or body)

b)

tempo

c)

speech melody

d)

tail

e)

pause

14.

Find fricative consonants of the English language:

a)

v, d

b)

s, f

c)

b, l

d)

m, n

e)

ʃ, ʒ

15.

Name the physical properties of speech sounds:

a)

pause

b)

fundamental frequency;

c)

stress patterns

d)

intensity

e)

peak of prominence

16.

: Name the types of pronunciation in Great Britain:

a)

Eastern American

b)

Southern or Received Pronunciation

c)

Southern American

d)

Midwestern

e)

Standard Scottish

17.

Name the types of pronunciation in the USA:

a)

Standard Scottish

b)

General American

c)

Southern English

d)

Eastern American

e)

Standard English

18.

: Find the cases of lateral plosion:

a)

ten - two

b)

settle

c)

this shop

d)

at last

e)

great trouble

19.

Find the syllabic speech sounds in the given variants:  

a)

consonant sounds

b)

vowel sounds

c)

voiceless sounds

d)

sonorant sounds

e)

voiced sounds

20.

What problems does physiological or articulatory phonetics deal with?

a)

the description and classification of speech sound

b)

the articulation of speech sounds

c)

the functions of different phonetic phenomena

d)

the perception of speech sounds

e)

acoustic effect of speech sounds

21.

Find the correct word accent in General American Pronunciation:

a)

'laboraˎtory

b)

'necessary

c)

'neceˎssary

d)

'testimony

e)

'laboratory

22.

What problems does the phonostylistics study?

a)

segmental phonetic units (sounds)

b)

suprasegmental phonetic units (sounds)

c)

morphological structure of words

d)

modifications of English speech sounds

e)

syntactic relations

23.

Name the types of Intonation styles:

a)

dialectical style

b)

declamatory style

c)

familiar or conversational style

d)

typical style

e)

local style

24.

Which of the following can be treated as phonetic devices:

a)

rhyme.

b)

assonance.

c)

alliteration.

d)

irony

e)

sound symbolism.

25.

Each sound is known to have the following aspects. They are:

a)

constitutive

b)

articulatory

c)

auditory.

d)

recognitive

e)

distinctive

26.

Teaching the grammatical side of speech at the initial stage is connected with the principle

a)

interconnected teaching of foreign languages

b)

philologization of foreign language teaching

c)

a structural and functional approach to the selection and organization of educational material

d)

introduction of the grammatical structure and the use of its function in speech activity

e)

interrelated teaching of the main types of speech activity

27.

Name the means of objective visibility:

a)

verbal (verbal) situation

b)

tutorial

c)

book

d)

synonym

e)

definition (definition)

28.

Find a variety of preparatory exercises:

a)

story

b)

transformation

c)

wildcard exercises

d)

translation

e)

picture description

29.

The general didactic principle that contributes to the creation of visual educational and speech situations is:

a)

the principle of the image of visual means

b)

the principle of accessibility

c)

the principle of visibility

d)

the principle of activity

e)

the principle of scientific

30.

: Find the type (variety) of speech exercises:

a)

substitution

b)

picture description

c)

conditional conversation

d)

declension of the pronoun

e)

imitation

31.

What is the minimum unit of measurement of dialogic speech?

a)

question

b)

dialogical unity

c)

speech acts

d)

replica

e)

answer

32.

Name in which of these exercises listening acts as a learning goal:

a)

listening to a situation to semanticize a new word

b)

listening to the text in order to understand the main content

c)

written translation of some sentences

d)

perception of text material of various types and genres

e)

performing oral exercises to consolidate new grammatical material

33.

What is the main task of teaching reading at the initial stage?

a)

learning reading techniques

b)

getting a general idea of the material being read

c)

learning to read with full information extraction

d)

pronunciation training

e)

learning to read with the extraction of basic information

34.

Which of the following exercises can be used to develop a prepared monologue speech?

a)

making a coherent detailed statement on the model (by analogy)

b)

building coherent statements based on keywords

c)

filling in the gaps in the sentence

d)

changing the order of words in a sentence

e)

inventing the title to the text and its justification

35.

What is the main task of teaching reading at the middle stage?

a)

learning to read with an understanding of the main content

b)

learning to read with the extraction of interesting information

c)

learning to read with a critical understanding of the content

d)

define the main idea and theme

e)

teaching reading techniques

36.

The semantics of the lexical unit "a Ball" is most effective using:

a)

context

b)

synonym

c)

subject visibility

d)

demonstration of the subject

e)

morphological analysis

37.

Which type of extracurricular language work implements the principle of intensive learning: situational basis of learning, personal orientation, role behavior, etc.?

a)

poetry lovers circle

b)

colloquial speech circle

c)

making notes, working on the role

d)

competition for the best historian of the region

e)

circle of art lovers

38.

What is the main task in teaching writing at the initial and secondary stages?

a)

formation of graphic and spelling skills

b)

to lay the foundations of writing techniques: to form the skills of calligraphy

c)

formation of writing skills

d)

formation of the ability to express your thoughts

e)

formation of the ability to make a plan in writing

39.

Which of the ways to test understanding is most appropriate for the task of the student of reading?

a)

selection of synonyms/antonyms for the specified words

b)

translation into native language

c)

test control

d)

general questions

e)

preparation of a summary or annotation

40.

What is the object of research in the methodology?

a)

all components of the educational process

b)

the process of learning a foreign language and the patterns of its assimilation as a new means of communication

c)

teaching the grammatical side of speech

d)

listening mechanisms

e)

training content

41.

Which of the exercises corresponds to the task of teaching writing in high school?

a)

filling in the gaps in the word

b)

reading a story and writing down its main idea

c)

annotation, abstracting

d)

writing letters or letter combinations that transmit the specified sound on the letter

e)

copying words

42.

What principles determine the pronunciation requirements of students in secondary school?

a)

feasibility

b)

communicative orientation

c)

approximations

d)

scientific

e)

availability

43.

What are the ways of oral communication:

a)

speaking, listening

b)

oral speech, listening perception

c)

speaking, reading

d)

speaking, writing

e)

listening, reading

44.

What refers to the units of the language?

a)

syntagma

b)

morpheme

c)

phoneme

d)

super-phrasal unity

e)

question

45.

What kind of speech activity is a priority for training?

a)

oral speech

b)

speaking

c)

listening

d)

translation

e)

letter

46.

The main content of the lesson is:

a)

spelling and graphic skills

b)

listening, reading, writing, speaking

c)

all types of speech activity

d)

phonetic skills

e)

grammar skills

47.

In which case does reading act as the purpose of teaching a foreign language?

a)

when the content is assimilated by 90%

b)

when reading the text with a full understanding of the content

c)

when expanding the potential vocabulary

d)

when teaching a graphic system of a foreign language

e)

when improving pronunciation skills

48.

What is the most difficult to control?

a)

knowledge

b)

speech skills

c)

speech and speaking skills

d)

translation

e)

skills

49.

At school, a foreign language should be taught primarily as:

a)

a means of communication

b)

practical application of communication skills

c)

a means of logical thinking of the language being studied

d)

a means of formulating one's thoughts

e)

the method of transmitting the content read in a foreign language

50.

One of the main criteria for the selection of active vocabulary

is the principle of stylistic limitlessness, i.e. words are selected:

a)

used in any style

b)

stylistically different words

c)

included in the professional vocabulary

d)

from which a large number of new words can be created using affixes

e)

expressing the most important concepts on topics

51.

Lingual units stand to one another in two fundamental types of relations:

a)

syntagmatic

b)

paradigmatic

c)

suprasegmental

d)

segmental

e)

phatic

52.

Verbs of partial nominative value are:

a)

derivational

b)

semi-:notional

c)

functional

d)

prepositional

e)

postpositional

53.

The infinitive combines the properties of:

a)

verb

b)

noun

c)

adverb

d)

interjection

e)

numeral

54.

: The past participle combines the properties of:

a)

verb

b)

adjective

c)

adverb

d)

interjection

e)

noun

55.

In the sentence the adjective performs the functions of:

a)

an object

b)

an attribute

c)

a predicative

d)

a subject

e)

adverbial modifier

56.

In accord with their word-:building structure adverbs may be:

a)

simple

b)

derived

c)

gradational

d)

quantitative

e)

notional

57.

Adverbial suffixes of limited distribution are:

a)

wards

b)

wise

c)

able

d)

less

e)

ful

58.

Qualitative adverbs are:

a)

today

b)

plainly

c)

bitterly

d)

almost

e)

homewards

59.

Syntactic relations of the phrase constituents are divided into:

a)

proposemic

b)

agreement

c)

government

d)

declarative

e)

nominative

60.

: From the point of view of the actual division the sentence can be divided into the following sections:

a)

functional

b)

complement

c)

thematic

d)

rhematic

e)

independent

61.

Main parts of the sentence are:

a)

the subject

b)

the predicate

c)

adverbial modifier

d)

apposition

e)

attribute

62.

: The examples of subordinating conjunctions are:

a)

when

b)

who

c)

not only … but

d)

or

e)

and

63.

The examples of collective nouns are:

a)

the police

b)

the Army

c)

baby

d)

the Urals

e)

the Rhine

64.

The following words refer to the class of pluralia tantum:

a)

scissors

b)

spectacles

c)

bridges

d)

geese

e)

boxes

65.

The category of case is expressed in English by the opposition of the following cases:

a)

dative

b)

possessive (genitive)

c)

common

d)

instrumental

e)

objective

66.

The sound-:replacive type of derivation of verbs can be observed in the following examples:

a)

cook -: cooked

b)

food – to feed

c)

blood – to bleed

d)

export – to export

e)

export – to export

67.

: In the following words the plural form of the noun is homonymous with the singular form:

a)

brother

b)

alumnus

c)

deer

d)

sheep

e)

book

68.

The following words are singular but plural in form:

a)

mathematics

b)

linguistics

c)

scissors

d)

phenomena

e)

lives

69.

The language-:speech dichotomy was analyzed by:

a)

I.A. Beaudoin de Courtenay

b)

F. de Saussure

c)

M.A.K. Halliday

d)

A. Wierzbicka

e)

F.R. Palmer

70.

The examples of equipollent opposition are:

a)

she / her

b)

he / him

c)

work / worked

d)

book / books

e)

open / opened

71.

To the group of the so called “common gender” nouns refer the following words:

a)

woman

b)

man

c)

person

d)

friend

e)

lioness

72.

To the reciprocal pronouns belong the following pronouns:

a)

each other

b)

one another

c)

myself

d)

whose

e)

herself

73.

Considering is a preposition in the following sentences:

a)

Considering his age, he has made an excellent progress

b)

Considering the weather, we got here quite quickly.

c)

Considering that he is rather young, his parents have advised him not to apply for that job.

d)

Considering what nice parents they’ve got, they are quite careless.

e)

Considering that she eats so much chocolate, her figure is wonderful.

74.

In the following sentences the verb do is marked as emphatic:

a)

I do know him too well.

b)

Do go there!

c)

It wouldn’t do, I suppose.

d)

I don’t know him.

e)

Do you know this man?

75.

Choose exclamative sentences:

a)

What an interesting book!

b)

What does it mean?

c)

How well you translated this article!

d)

Translate into English.

e)

Where do we go?