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The Spoken English | Set 1

1. How many languages as official languages recognizes in constitution of India?

Correct : D. 18

2. According to whom, "English is a big key on the Modern World"?

Correct : B. Jawaharlal Nehru

3. Who said that "English is the greatest gift of Goddess Sarswati to India"?

Correct : A. C. Rajgopalchari

4. Who introduced English in Indian Education system?

Correct : B. Lord Macaulay

5. In which year Bombay, Calcutta and Madras Universities had opened?

Correct : C. 1857

6. Who wrote "Better English Pronunciation"?

Correct : C. J.D.O.Conner

7. The organs of the speech can be classified into____ parts.

Correct : A. 3

8. What is the end of the Soft Palate?

Correct : C. uvula

9. Which sound is produced from the Glottis?

Correct : B. /h/

10. How many oral sounds in English?

Correct : D. 41

11. How many vowels sounds are there in English?

Correct : C. 12

12. Which is the Lateral Sound?

Correct : A. /l/

13. _____are free flowing sounds.

Correct : D. vowels

14. In the production of______ sounds there is a glide from one position to another position.

Correct : B. diphthongs

15. How many consonants in English?

Correct : A. 24

16. The British arrived in India in the early ______.

Correct : B. 1600s

17. According to whom, "English is the easiest language to speak bad but most difficult language to speak well"?

Correct : C. G.B.Shaw

18. Who won the Booker Prize for her novel "The God for Small Things"?

Correct : D. Arundhati Roy

19. Which system includes larynx and the vocal cords?

Correct : C. Phonatory

20. Larynx is also known as_______.

Correct : B. adam's apple

21. What is the another name of Teeth Ridge?

Correct : A. Alveloar Ridge

22. What is the another name of Soft Palate?

Correct : B. velam

23. What is the end of the Soft Palate?

Correct : C. uvula

24. What is the another name of wind pipe?

Correct : C. trachea

25. When the soft palate is raised, the nasal cavity is blocked and air passes through the mouth is called_______.

Correct : A. oral sound

26. Which was not the nasal sounds in English?

Correct : D. /b/

27. Which syllable is stressed in a noun and adjective?

Correct : B. first

28. A unit that is next in hierarchy to the speech- sound is called_____.

Correct : A. stress

29. ________ is the change which occurs at the end of the word.

Correct : C. inflection

30. ________means 'the science of sound'.

Correct : A. phonology

31. The smallest unit of word is called_________.

Correct : C. morepheme

32. Smallest distinctive sound units are known as_______ of that language.

Correct : B. phonemes

33. ______is a variation in pitch from one part of an utterance to another.

Correct : B. inflection

34. ______is begins as plossives and ends as fricatives.

Correct : D. Affricates

35. In the production of_____ sounds, the back of the tongue touches the soft palate.

Correct : C. velar

36. Which is not the Plossives (Stop) consonants in English?

Correct : B. /m/

37. When the two Vowels connected together that produce______.

Correct : A. diphthongs

38. The extreme back end of the tongue is called_____.

Correct : B. root of the tongue

39. The tongue can be divided into___ parts.

Correct : A. 5

40. When the soft palate is raised, the nasal cavity is blocked and air passes through the mouth is called_______.

Correct : C. oral

41. The open space between the vocal cords is called_____.

Correct : B. glottis

42. Which system includes the lungs, the muscles of the chest and the wind pipe?

Correct : A. Respiratory

43. When the vocal cords are vibrate____ sounds produced.

Correct : C. voiced

44. Which is the Alveolar sound?

Correct : D. /d/

45. Which is the Palatal sound?

Correct : B. /j/

46. Which is the Post-Alveolar sound?

Correct : D. /r/

47. Ho many syllables in "Examination"?

Correct : C. 5

48. "Young" phonetic transcription

Correct : A. /jʌŋ/

49. "teach" phonetic transcription

Correct : C. |tiːtʃ|

50. "America" phonetic transcription

Correct : A. /əmerɪkə/

51. "lover" phonetic transcription

Correct : D. /lʌvə/