The representation of the sounds of one language as nearly as possible by the letters and letter combinations of another language is called

Which of the below-given functions does not characterize a phoneme?

b) communicative;

The phonetic term, which cannot be used to characterize word accent in the English language, is

c) musical.    

The pitch of the voice may be changed through widening and narrowing the range of the voice. The widening of the range is used to express

b) joy, happiness, indignation;

25. Answer the question: Which of the following degrees of word stress is characteristic only for American English?

c) tertiary.   

Statements pronounced with the falling-rising tone

b) carry implication;

Unstressed or partly stressed syllables (or a syllable) that follow the nucleus of the intonation group are called

b) tail;

28. Choose the variant which is not correct: Positional allophones appear as a result of

d) elision.

The component of the intonation pattern, which is considered to be the most important and obligatory, is

c) the nucleus;

The kind of word stress that is not characteristic of the English and Russian/Ukrainian languages is

b) fixed;

31. Answer the question: Which of the following communicative types of sentences are as a rule pronounced with the rising tone?

b) requests;                      

If the speaker wants to express a reassuring, soothing attitude with a hint of self-reliance, his/ her statement is pronounced with

b) the low rising nuclear tone;

Repeated or echoing special questions are usually pronounced with

c) a low rising tone on the question word.   

In order to make the exclamation sound weighty and emphatic the speaker usually uses

a) the low falling nuclear tone;

The phrase “Excuse me” arresting someone’s attention is pronounced with

a) a falling-rising tone; 

If special prominence in an accented syllable or syllables is achieved mainly through the intensity of articulation, such type of stress is called

c) dynamic, or force.

The use of different languages or dialects for different occasions is

b) diglossia;       

For casual “Thank you” and “Sorry” it is recommended to use

a) the low rising tone;

The American-based group of variants of English does not include

a) Australian English;            

The retroflexed articulation of vowels, the weakening of /j/, the voicing of /t/ in the intervocalic position is typical of

c) General American.

According to the theory there are as many syllables of the word as many picks of prominent

a) the sonority theory

Qualitative variants of members of 1 and the same phoneme which never occurs in identical positions but are said to be incomplementary distribution are called

a) allophones

ЛИНГВОСТРАНОВЕДЕНИЕ

The United Kingdom” means

a) England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and a number of small islands.

The “Home Counties” is

a)  The most homogeneous part of Britain;

The Bill of rights was worked out by

b) James Madison;

The rate of unemployment is the highest

a) In Wales;

The Golden Age is the period of English history under the reign of

a) Elizabeth I;

The first President of the USA was

Washington

In 1648 Olive Cromwell got the title of

a) Lord Protector.

The Restoration of the Monarchy took place

after Cromwell’s death.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared

a) freedom for slaves;

The Tories were

a) for the royal prerogative;

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