1. The word 'dictionary' is derived from the medieval _____ word dictionarium
1) Greek
2) Latin
3) German
4) French
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- Answer:3
2. Identify the pair of words in which the underlined part is pronounced in the same way.
1) Plough – rough
2) Fought – laugh
3) Although – enough
4) Enough – cough
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- Answer: 4
3. The two words at the top of each page to help you know what words are on the page are called______
1) Guide words
2) Syllable
3) Pronunciation
4) Other word forms
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- Answer: 1
4. Dictionary of Pronunciation was the greatest work of ____
1) Daniel O’Connor
2) Peter Roach
3) Daniel Jones
4) AC Gimson
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5. The main aim of pronunciation is that students can____
1) understand words spoken
2) Achieve lateral plosion
3) produce intelligible speech
4) Produce native-speaker like variation.
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6. The use of dictionary does not help learners to
1) find out how to say a word
2) Be proficient in a speaking
3) find the meaning of the words
4) Check the parts of speech of a word
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- Answer: 2
7. Out of 44 phonemes in English language, six are____
1) Affricates
2) Fricatives
3) Plosives
4) Approximants
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8. Identify the correct phoneme for the underlined letters in the sentence given below:
He has many reasons to lose everything in the business.
1) /s/
2) /tf/
3) /z/
4) /dz/
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- Answer: 3
9. /kju/ is a phonemic transcription of _____
1) you
2) Queue
3) Knew
4) Quay
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10.The -ed in the word 'packed' is pronounced as /t/ and in 'wanted' as /id/. Then how is it pronounced in the word 'wicked'?
1) /ed/
2) /id/
3) /d/
4) /t/
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- Answer: 2
11.The function of a dictionary is NOT to give___
1) meaning
2) Synonyms
3) Pronunciation
4) Origin of the word
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12.What is Received Pronunciation (RP) that is taken as standard pronunciation in India?
1) The pronunciation of the educated people in Southern England
2) The pronunciation of the colonial English rulers of India
3) The standard pronunciation of native speakers of Britain
4) The pronunciation that students receive from the teachers in the class
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- Answer: 1
13. Identify the word that doesnot end with the sound /id/?
1) Packed
2) wounded
3) Departed
4) Waited
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- Answer: 1
14. The word “Mute” is pronounced as____
1) /mut/
2) /mu:t/
3) /mju:t/
4) /mjut/
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- Answer: 3
15. The word “Food” is pronounced as____
1) /fud/
2) /fjud/
3) /fu:d/
4) /faud/
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- Answer: 3
16. Identify the word that does not end with the sound /iz/
1) lions
2) possesses
3) buses
4) catches
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17. Choose the word that ends with the sound /t/
1) Lived
2) Amazed
3) Sniffed
4) Used
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18. Choose the word that ends with the sound /t/
1) Lived
2) Amazed
3) Sniffed
4) Used
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- Answer: 4
19. Choose the word that does not end with the sound /s/
1) Drinks
2) Months
3) Girls
4) Cups
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- Answer: 3
20.Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year____
1) 1710
2) 1755
3) 1739
4) 1759
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- Answer: 2
21. Which of the following four statements is right?
1) In English one letter of the alphabet stands for more than one sound
2) In English one letter of the alphabet stands for one sound
3) In English one letter of the alphabet does not stand for any sound
4) In English many letters stand for one sound
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22. What is the three term label for the phoneme /b/ ?
1) voiceless bi-labial plosive
2) voiced velar plosive
3) voiced bi-labial plosive
4) voiceless velar plosive
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- Answer: 3
23.The dictionary that can be used at the primary level is :
1) a thesaurus
2) an Advanced Learner's Dictionary
3) a picture dictionary
4) a dictionary of phonetics
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