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1. |
How many languages as official languages recognizes in constitution of India? |
A. | 14 |
B. | 12 |
C. | 16 |
D. | 18 |
Answer» D. 18 |
2. |
According to whom, "English is a big key on the Modern World"? |
A. | Gandhiji |
B. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
C. | C. Rajgopalchari |
D. | G.B.Shaw |
Answer» B. Jawaharlal Nehru |
3. |
Who said that "English is the greatest gift of Goddess Sarswati to India"? |
A. | C. Rajgopalchari |
B. | Gandhiji |
C. | Rabinranath Tagor |
D. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Answer» A. C. Rajgopalchari |
4. |
Who introduced English in Indian Education system? |
A. | Gandhiji |
B. | Lord Macaulay |
C. | C.K.Ogden |
D. | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
Answer» B. Lord Macaulay |
5. |
In which year Bombay, Calcutta and Madras Universities had opened? |
A. | 1957 |
B. | 1855 |
C. | 1857 |
D. | 1955 |
Answer» C. 1857 |
6. |
Who wrote "Better English Pronunciation"? |
A. | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
B. | Vikram Seth |
C. | J.D.O.Conner |
D. | G.B.Shaw |
Answer» C. J.D.O.Conner |
7. |
The organs of the speech can be classified into____ parts. |
A. | 3 |
B. | 5 |
C. | 7 |
D. | 6 |
Answer» A. 3 |
8. |
What is the end of the Soft Palate? |
A. | soft palate |
B. | velam |
C. | uvula |
D. | larynx |
Answer» C. uvula |
9. |
Which sound is produced from the Glottis? |
A. | /g/ |
B. | /h/ |
C. | /m/ |
D. | /n/ |
Answer» B. /h/ |
10. |
How many oral sounds in English? |
A. | 45 |
B. | 27 |
C. | 21 |
D. | 41 |
Answer» D. 41 |
11. |
How many vowels sounds are there in English? |
A. | 8 |
B. | 10 |
C. | 12 |
D. | 6 |
Answer» C. 12 |
12. |
Which is the Lateral Sound? |
A. | /l/ |
B. | /p/ |
C. | /b/ |
D. | /a/ |
Answer» A. /l/ |
13. |
_____are free flowing sounds. |
A. | consonant |
B. | lateral sound |
C. | diphthongs |
D. | vowels |
Answer» D. vowels |
14. |
In the production of______ sounds there is a glide from one position to another position. |
A. | consonants |
B. | diphthongs |
C. | vowels |
D. | none |
Answer» B. diphthongs |
15. |
How many consonants in English? |
A. | 24 |
B. | 12 |
C. | 20 |
D. | 22 |
Answer» A. 24 |
16. |
The British arrived in India in the early ______. |
A. | 1500s |
B. | 1600s |
C. | 1660s |
D. | 1700s |
Answer» B. 1600s |
17. |
According to whom, "English is the easiest language to speak bad but most difficult language to speak well"? |
A. | Arundhati Roy |
B. | Matthew Arnold |
C. | G.B.Shaw |
D. | John Ruskin |
Answer» C. G.B.Shaw |
18. |
Who won the Booker Prize for her novel "The God for Small Things"? |
A. | Vikram Seth |
B. | Salman Rushdie |
C. | Rabinranath Tagor |
D. | Arundhati Roy |
Answer» D. Arundhati Roy |
19. |
Which system includes larynx and the vocal cords? |
A. | Respiratory |
B. | Ariculatory |
C. | Phonatory |
D. | none |
Answer» C. Phonatory |
20. |
Larynx is also known as_______. |
A. | velam |
B. | adam's apple |
C. | uvula |
D. | pharynx |
Answer» B. adam's apple |
21. |
What is the another name of Teeth Ridge? |
A. | Alveloar Ridge |
B. | pharynx |
C. | soft palate |
D. | hard palate |
Answer» A. Alveloar Ridge |
22. |
What is the another name of Soft Palate? |
A. | pharynx |
B. | velam |
C. | uvula |
D. | hard palate |
Answer» B. velam |
23. |
What is the end of the Soft Palate? |
A. | hard palate |
B. | pharynx |
C. | uvula |
D. | velam |
Answer» C. uvula |
24. |
What is the another name of wind pipe? |
A. | uvula |
B. | velam |
C. | trachea |
D. | soft palate |
Answer» C. trachea |
25. |
When the soft palate is raised, the nasal cavity is blocked and air passes through the mouth is called_______. |
A. | oral sound |
B. | nasal sound |
C. | lateral sound |
D. | none |
Answer» A. oral sound |
26. |
Which was not the nasal sounds in English? |
A. | /m/ |
B. | /n/ |
C. | /ŋ/ |
D. | /b/ |
Answer» D. /b/ |
27. |
Which syllable is stressed in a noun and adjective? |
A. | second |
B. | first |
C. | third |
D. | forth |
Answer» B. first |
28. |
A unit that is next in hierarchy to the speech- sound is called_____. |
A. | stress |
B. | inflection |
C. | intonation |
D. | phoneme |
Answer» A. stress |
29. |
________ is the change which occurs at the end of the word. |
A. | intonation |
B. | phoneme |
C. | inflection |
D. | stress |
Answer» C. inflection |
30. |
________means 'the science of sound'. |
A. | phonology |
B. | stress |
C. | phoneme |
D. | intonation |
Answer» A. phonology |
31. |
The smallest unit of word is called_________. |
A. | phonology |
B. | phoneme |
C. | morepheme |
D. | inflection |
Answer» C. morepheme |
32. |
Smallest distinctive sound units are known as_______ of that language. |
A. | stress |
B. | phonemes |
C. | morepheme |
D. | intonation |
Answer» B. phonemes |
33. |
______is a variation in pitch from one part of an utterance to another. |
A. | intonation |
B. | inflection |
C. | stress |
D. | syllable |
Answer» B. inflection |
34. |
______is begins as plossives and ends as fricatives. |
A. | Bilabial |
B. | Nasal |
C. | velar |
D. | Affricates |
Answer» D. Affricates |
35. |
In the production of_____ sounds, the back of the tongue touches the soft palate. |
A. | alveolar |
B. | bilabial |
C. | velar |
D. | glotal |
Answer» C. velar |
36. |
Which is not the Plossives (Stop) consonants in English? |
A. | /p/ |
B. | /m/ |
C. | /b/ |
D. | /t/ |
Answer» B. /m/ |
37. |
When the two Vowels connected together that produce______. |
A. | diphthongs |
B. | affricate |
C. | consonant |
D. | vowel |
Answer» A. diphthongs |
38. |
The extreme back end of the tongue is called_____. |
A. | back of the tongue |
B. | root of the tongue |
C. | tip of the tongue |
D. | front of the tongue |
Answer» B. root of the tongue |
39. |
The tongue can be divided into___ parts. |
A. | 5 |
B. | 3 |
C. | 10 |
D. | 7 |
Answer» A. 5 |
40. |
When the soft palate is raised, the nasal cavity is blocked and air passes through the mouth is called_______. |
A. | nasal |
B. | affricate |
C. | oral |
D. | diphthongs |
Answer» C. oral |
41. |
The open space between the vocal cords is called_____. |
A. | soft palate |
B. | glottis |
C. | pharynx |
D. | uvula |
Answer» B. glottis |
42. |
Which system includes the lungs, the muscles of the chest and the wind pipe? |
A. | Respiratory |
B. | Phonatory |
C. | Ariculatory |
D. | none |
Answer» A. Respiratory |
43. |
When the vocal cords are vibrate____ sounds produced. |
A. | unvoiced |
B. | lateral |
C. | voiced |
D. | none |
Answer» C. voiced |
44. |
Which is the Alveolar sound? |
A. | /j/ |
B. | /w/ |
C. | /r/ |
D. | /d/ |
Answer» D. /d/ |
45. |
Which is the Palatal sound? |
A. | /r/ |
B. | /j/ |
C. | /p/ |
D. | /f/ |
Answer» B. /j/ |
46. |
Which is the Post-Alveolar sound? |
A. | /w/ |
B. | /v/ |
C. | /z/ |
D. | /r/ |
Answer» D. /r/ |
47. |
Ho many syllables in "Examination"? |
A. | 3 |
B. | 7 |
C. | 5 |
D. | 9 |
Answer» C. 5 |
48. |
"Young" phonetic transcription |
A. | /jʌŋ/ |
B. | /jang/ |
C. | /jan/ |
D. | none |
Answer» A. /jʌŋ/ |
49. |
"teach" phonetic transcription |
A. | /tich/ |
B. | /teechh/ |
C. | |tiːtʃ| |
D. | /ta:ch/ |
Answer» C. |tiːtʃ| |
50. |
"America" phonetic transcription |
A. | /əmerɪkə/ |
B. | /əmerɪka/ |
C. | /amerɪkə/ |
D. | /əmarɪkə/ |
Answer» A. /əmerɪkə/ |
51. |
"lover" phonetic transcription |
A. | /lavə/ |
B. | /lʌv/ |
C. | /lʌva/ |
D. | /lʌvə/ |
Answer» D. /lʌvə/ |
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