UG TRB English - Unit 8 - Mock Test

UG TRB English

Unit 8

Mock Test

1. It is a way a speaker uses languages differently in different circumstances.

Idiolect 

Register

Isogloss

2. Choose the correct one.

There are three main air stream mechanism.

There are four main air stream mechanism.

There are five main air stream mechanism.

3. Velaric ingressive mechanism is used in

African languages

Indian languages

European languages

4. The extreme edge of the tongue is called the

blade

tip

root

5. Affricates

Complete closure and slow release

Complete closure and sudden release

air passes through the articulators intermittently

6.For some consonants, the active articulator strikes against the passive articulator once and then quickly flaps  forward. Such consonants are called 

trills or rolled consonants

Fricatives

taps or flaps

7. In the velar sounds, the active articulator is

Front of the tongue

back of the tongue

root of the tongue

8. Find the odd one.

/u/

/u:/

/i/

9.Cardinal vowels are classified depending on 

 the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth

the position of the lip relative to the upper front teeth

the position of the glottis

10. What is the another name for vowel glide

dipthongs

monophthongs

cardinal vowels

11. Choose the wrong one.

Allophones are phoneme variations that do not bring meaning change.

Allophones are considered to be the same sound, they differ in terms of aspiration, voicing and point of articulation.

The aspirated and the unaspirated forms of /k/ are not the allophones of the same phoneme.

12. In homonyms '-nym' means

word

name

Prefix

13. It denotes a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or a character to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone or meaning.

Apostrophe

Quotation

Diacritics

14. /z/ is a

Voiced alveolar fricative

Voiced alveolar affricate

Voiceless alveolar affricate

15. /ŋ/ is a

Voiced alveolar nasal

Voiced bilabial nasal

Voiced velar nasal

16. The words with more than three syllables are called

trisyllabic words

monosyllabic words

polysyllabic words

17. 'Composition' - is a 

trisyllabic word

monosyllabic word

polysyllabic word

18. Statement 1: The consonant that 

begins a syllable is called the releasing consonant.

Statement 2: The consonant that comes at the end of a syllable is called the

arresting consonant.

Only statement 2 is correct

Only statement 1 is correct

Both statements are correct.

19. A sequence of two or more consonants at the beginning or end of a syllable is called 

Consonant groups

consonant clusters

Consonant types

20.  ........... is the rise and fall in pitch of the voice in speech. 

Shouts

Laterals

Intonation 

21. Regressive assimilation is also known as

anticipatory assimilation 

unexpected assimilation

average assimilation 

22. Statement 1: Elison is  the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking. 

Statement 2: Usually unaccented syllables are elided in

speech.

Only 1 statement is correct.

both statements are correct.

both statements are weong.

23. A bending word is similar to

conversation words

portmanteau words

Acronyms

24.  The verb 'Project' is an example for

portmanteau words

Acronyms

Back formation 

25. .......is the state that shows the relationship between more general term and the more specific instances of it.

Hyponymy

Polysemy

Ambiguity

Answer and Explanation