Unit 1 Introduction

Achievement Test 1-3

1、单选题:
  Like all languages in the world, English phonemes are also divided into vowels and consonants. The distinction between the two lies in the obstruction of __________.‎‍‎
选项:
A:  mouth
B:       airstream 
C:       nose   
D:       vocal cords
答案: 【       airstream 

2、单选题:
The __________ Pronunciation, or RP for short, is the instantly recognisable accent often described as ‘typically British’. It is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as “the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England”.‍‍‍
选项:
A: Renowned            
B:      Respected  
C:       Respectable  
D:       Received
答案: 【       Received

3、单选题:
The vowel __________ can be described as low, front, and unrounded, but the feature “unrounded” is usually omitted because all front vowels in English are unrounded.‍‎‍
选项:
A: /æ/                                                                    
B:     /e/   
C:     /i:/   
D:     /ɒ/
答案: 【 /æ/                                                                    

4、单选题:
Syllabically, although a diphthong is a combination of two vowel sounds, and the tongue glides in the production of it, it is perceived as one phoneme, not two. Thus, diphthongs are treated as having one __________ only.‍​‍
选项:
A: stress                                                    
B:     syllable 
C:     vowel   
D:     allophone
答案: 【      syllable 

5、单选题:
Words such as fire /faɪə/, flour /flaʊə/, or loyal /lɔɪəl/ are considered by the native English speakers to have only one syllable, whereas higher /haɪə/ and player /pleɪə/ are more likely to be heard with disyllabic realizations because the third vowel is a __________.​​​
选项:
A:  triphthong                                
B:       suffix      
C:       monophthong 
D:      diphthong
答案: 【       suffix      

6、判断题:
  In the production of a consonant sound, the air stream from the lungs meets no obstruction of any kind in the throat, the nose, or the mouth, while in the pronunciation of a vowel, the air stream from the lungs is obstructed in one way or another. ‌‎‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

7、判断题:
 Daniel Jones worked out a set of Cardinal Vowels that students learning phonetics could be taught to produce, the aim of which is to give an approximate picture of the degree and direction of the tongue movement involved.‏‎‏
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

8、判断题:
/i:/ and /ɪ/ are both high front vowels, but /i:/ is a bit lower and more forward than /ɪ/. In addition, /i:/ is tense in that the root of the tongue is more advanced than with /ɪ/, which is lax.‌​‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

9、判断题:
‏English diphthongs are divided into both falling diphthongs (the first vowel sound is pronounced longer, louder and stronger than the second one), and rising diphthongs (the second sound is produced longer and stronger than the first‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

10、判断题:
 If two adjacent vowel sounds occur in different syllables — for example, in the English word re-elect (/ˌri:ˈɪle

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