1. This type of questions has the low-rising nuclear tone in the first intonation-group and the low-falling nuclear tone in the final intonation-group.
A) General
B) Alternative
C) Disjunctive
D) Special
2. The first intonation-group of this type of question has generally the low-falling nuclear tone.
A) General
B) Alternative
C) Disjunctive
D) Special
3. (Low pre-head + ) (descending head + ) mid-level (+ tail) this is the scheme of:
A) Intonation Pattern 6
B) Intonation Pattern 7
C) Intonation Pattern 5
D) Intonation Pattern 8
4. What does this mean:
A) Fall-Rise
B) Low-Fall
C) Low Rise
D)Mid-level
5. Stress-and-tone of Fall-Rise is marked in the text:
a) \
b) /
c) >
d) \/
5. If an adverbial clause precedes the principal one and makes a separate intonation-group, it is usually pronounced with:
A) Low-Fall or Mid-Level
B) Low-Rise or Mid-Level
C) Low-Fall only
D) Low-Rise only
6. The students were listening to the text at the laboratory (not in Room 15). Where should logical stress be put?
A) The students
B) Listening
C) Text
D) At the laboratory
7. The first-year students sang a Russian folk song (not an American song). Where should logical stress be put?
A) The first-year
B) Students
C) Russian
D) Folk
8. It rained hard on Sunday in Pushkino (not yesterday). Where should logical stress be put?
A) Rained
B) Hard
C) On Sunday
D) In Pushkino
9. He was taking his exam in Literature on Monday (not in Linguistics). Where should logical stress be put?
A) He
B) Exam
C) In Literature
D) On Monday
10. This is the scheme of
A) Intonation Pattern 6
B) Intonation Pattern 7
C) Intonation Pattern 5
D) Intonation Pattern 8
11. Children, listen to me. This sentence has:
A) address
B) Author`s words
C) Enumeration
D) Parenthesis
12. The nucleus is..
A) The first stressed syllable
B) The last unstressed syllable
C) The half-stressed syllable
D) The last stressed syllable
14. In intonation a horizontal dash means:
A) unstressed syllable
b) the end of the sentence
c) stressed syllable
d) the nucleus
15. Choose the word, where –th is read as [D]
A) throat
b) thunder
c) third
d) feather
16. Choose the word with a short vowel
A) bottle
b) seat
c) each
d) board
17. Choose the word with the sound:
A) church
b) think
c) wish
d) vision
18. She said: “The dress is beautiful”. This sentence has:
A) Direct address
b) Author`s words
c) Enumeration
d) Parenthesis
19. Intonation is a…
A) science of languages
b) complex unity of variations in pitch, stress, tempo and timbre
c) studying of pronunciation
d) special colouring of voice, which shows the speaker's emotions
20. (Low pre-head + ) low head + low rise (+ tail)
A) Intonation Pattern 6
b) Intonation Pattern 7
c) Intonation Pattern 5
d) Intonation Pattern 8
21. a downward curve represent..
A) the final fall
b) a level tone
c) the range of the voice
d) the final rise
22. Choose the correct variant of intonation. What will happen next Monday?
A) What will happen next Monday?
b) 'What will 'happen 'next Monday?
c) 'What will 'happen 'next Monday?
d) 'What will happen next Monday?
23. Find the word in which the underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
A) watch
B) back
C) pack
D) bag
24. Find the word in which the underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
A) piece
B) ease
C) cream
D) great
25. Choose the word, ending in a voiced соnsonant:
A) fifths
b) fields
c) maps
d) cats
1) When it became clear that he would be moving to Austria, he sold the house to his brother.
2) All the copies of the book has been already sold out.
3) Was the car sold for $2000 some days ago?
4) The tickets cost too much and sold badly.
5) Do you know if your neighbours has sold their car?
6) According to yesterday's newspapers, astronomers in Australia discovered a planet in a galaxy close to ours.
7) A new planet were discovered but I don't remember it's name.
8) Radium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie.
9) His father received so many complains about the noise that he told.
10) ?
11) Over 50 letters of support has received in the last 10 days.
12) His project received a lot of attention lately.
In general, people get prepared for this holiday very carefully. They decorate their houses in the traditional way. Christmas trees are set up in houses, in the streets and churches. They are always decorated with fairy lights, angels and small toys. In addition, little packets with nuts, candies and special biscuits are hung on the tree. Presents are put around the tree and artificial «frost» is scattered over the branches.