This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Phonetics – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Phonetics Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sounds of English are produced by ..... air into the lungs A) Inhaling. B) Exhaling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exhaling. 2. Which letter is silent in raspberry and cupboard? A) S. B) B. C) P. D) R. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) P. 3. Phonetics is the science of study of ..... A) Grammar. B) Articulatory system. C) Organs of human body. D) Speech sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speech sounds. 4. The physical properties of speech (i.e. the sound wave), as transmitted between mouth and ear are A) Articulatory phonetics. B) Acoustic phonetic. C) Acoustic phonology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acoustic phonetic. 5. How many individual sounds do we have in the word "teacher" ? A) Three. B) Four. C) Six. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four. 6. RP is used in ..... A) BBC. B) AIR. C) Doordarshan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BBC. 7. He asked me for money. A) Last sound is t. B) Last sound is d. C) Last sound is something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Last sound is t. 8. The vocal cords have ..... main functions. A) Five. B) Three. C) Two. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two. 9. When it is raised in speech, the air cannot escape. A) The screen. B) Hard palate. C) Larynx. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The screen. 10. Invited visited wished dested A) Dested. B) Wished. C) Visited. D) Invited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wished. 11. Talking about consonants, place:bilabial? A) Lip to lip. B) Lip to teeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lip to lip. 12. Take up a new hobby ..... you'll have some new friends. A) And. B) Or. C) So. D) But. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) And. 13. Which is NOT considered a "problem" A) Delay. B) Disorder. C) Difference. D) All are "problems". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Difference. 14. When the vocal folds vibrate we produce ..... A) Consonants. B) Vowels. C) Letters. D) Graphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vowels. 15. Where is the primary stress in this word:invite? A) 1st syllable. B) 2nd syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd syllable. 16. Which word has this sound? i: A) Climb. B) Sit. C) See. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) See. 17. SAY, GO, FIVE, BOY are examples of diphthongs? A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 18. School food tooth flood A) Tooth. B) School. C) Food. D) Flood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flood. 19. What is the type of sounds in DOWN A) Court. B) Long. C) Diphthong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diphthong. 20. Reaches impresses practices improves A) Improves. B) Impresses. C) Reaches. D) Practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improves. 21. Pre-judgement is a A) Disgusting. B) Dirty. C) Barrier. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barrier. 22. The purpose of listening is to improve A) Meaning. B) Interpersonal relations. C) Ask. D) Doubt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interpersonal relations. 23. Are son and sun pronounced the same way? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 24. THEY ARE WORDS OF SHORT ENGLISH VOWEL A) Sit, head, had, cup, good, hot, teacher. B) Seat, head, foot, walk, girl, heart, dark. C) Four, door, cup, hat, nurse, teacher, earth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sit, head, had, cup, good, hot, teacher. 25. How did they get there? By bus ..... by taxi? A) And. B) Or. C) So. D) But. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Or. 26. How many syllables does the word "vegetable" have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 27. The basic unit of sound is A) Consonants. B) Morpheme. C) Vowels. D) Phoneme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phoneme. 28. Who wrote 100 lonely days? A) Garcia Marquez. B) Vargas Llosa. C) Cesar Vallejo. D) Paulo Coelho. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garcia Marquez. 29. JoinED (final sound pronounced ..... ) A) /t/. B) /d/. C) /id/. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /d/. 30. Passed watched played washed A) Passed. B) Watched. C) Played. D) Washed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Played. 31. In a quiet house, I can ..... an insect. A) Hair. B) Hear. C) Here. D) Hare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hear. 32. My mother has a beautiful long blonde ..... A) Here. B) Hear. C) Hare. D) Hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hair. 33. What year did the French revolution begin? A) 1979. B) 1789. C) 1876. D) 1788. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1789. 34. John lives there, and Mary lives ..... A) Hair. B) Head. C) Hare. D) Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Here. 35. Find the word whose main stress is placed differently A) Effective. B) Relaxation. C) Drammatic. D) Nutritious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relaxation. 36. A. decorate B. clean C. course D. celebrate A) D. B) B. C) C. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) D. 37. Which of the following is an example of an alveolar sound? A) [f]. B) [g]. C) [b]. D) [s]. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) [s]. 38. The letter "o" is in the type I syllable. A) Took. B) Boy. C) Too. D) Book. E) Go. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Go. 39. There is a dolphin in the ..... A) Octopus. B) Shark. C) Sea. D) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sea. 40. Kara drew a flower on the ..... A) Bone. B) Bored. C) Board. D) Bowed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Board. 41. Sounds in language can be divided into two groups: ..... and ..... A) Vowels and consonant. B) Syllable and phoneme. C) Syllables and word. D) Ear and mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vowels and consonant. 42. What is the uvula? A) The small dangly thing at the back of the soft palate. B) The flat surface of the tongue just behind the tip. C) The lowest part of the tongue in the throat. D) The fold of tissue below the root of the tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The small dangly thing at the back of the soft palate. 43. Leo loves fish, but Vicky loves ..... A) Meat. B) Met. C) Meet. D) Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meat. 44. I had a bad headache ..... I was absent from school. A) And. B) Or. C) So. D) But. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So. 45. WHAT ARE ALLOPHONES? A) Is a word that is written diagonally. B) It is the sound that is produced by the way of writing a phoneme. C) It is a pair of words that have the same sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the sound that is produced by the way of writing a phoneme. 46. THEY ARE WORDS OF LARGE ENGLISH VOWEL A) Tree, Green, girl, four, door, food, you. B) Shoe, pull, foot, Green, love, money. C) Cup, dark, heart, stop, want, pull. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tree, Green, girl, four, door, food, you. 47. /b/ sound is voiced or voiceless? A) Voiceless. B) Voiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voiced. 48. Phonetics is a word derived from A) French. B) Spanish. C) Greek. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greek. 49. Market depart card scare A) Card. B) Market. C) Depart. D) Scare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scare. 50. Traditionally phonetics is divided into ..... A) Human phonetics and animal phonetics. B) Song phonetics and speech phonetics. C) Special phonetics and general phonetics. D) Loud phonetics and quite phonetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Special phonetics and general phonetics. 51. Is the use of phonetic symbols to represent speech sounds. A) Phonetics. B) IPA. C) Phonetic transcription. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phonetic transcription. 52. Indicate which of the following words, according to their reading, is in type IV syllable. A) Men. B) Here. C) Her. D) See. E) Perfume. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Here. 53. A. thought B. thick C. though D. thin A) C. B) A. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C. 54. Which letter is silent in comb, limb, and lamb? A) L. B) P. C) B. D) M. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B. 55. What kind of animal is the whale? A) Fish. B) Mammal. C) Reptile. D) Amphibian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mammal. 56. A vowel which remains constant and does not glide. A) Monothong. B) Pure vowel or monopthong. C) Diphthong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pure vowel or monopthong. 57. The phoneme /u:/ is in the words 'shampoo', 'soon', and 'blue'. Which word does not include the /u:/ sound? A) Suite. B) Tooth. C) Who. D) Root. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suite. 58. The letter "o" is in the III type syllable. A) Fork. B) Rode. C) Robe. D) Dog. E) Clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fork. 59. TiED (final pronunciation is ..... ) A) /t/. B) /d/. C) /id/. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /d/. 60. Pure vowels are again divided into ..... & ..... A) Diphthongs and Vowel glides. B) Vowel glides and short vowels. C) Long vowels and Diphthongs. D) Long vowels and short vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long vowels and short vowels. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPhonetics Quiz 1Phonetics Quiz 2Phonetics Quiz 3Phonetics Quiz 5Assimilation In Speech QuizConnected Speech QuizConsonant Clusters Pronunciation QuizConsonant Clusters Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books