超星英语语音与信息沟通期末答案(学习通2023题目答案)

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01.Course Orientation

第一周 测验

1、超星Which of the following languages belongs to the Indo-European Language Family?英语语音
A、Chinese
B、信息学习Greek
C、沟通Korean
D、期末Tibetan

2、答案Which of the following is 通题the second largest language family in the world?
A、The目答 Altaic Language Family
B、The超星 Chinese-Tibet Language Family
C、The英语语音 Indo-European Language Family
D、The信息学习 Afro-Asian Language Family

3、Which language family does English belong to?沟通
A、The期末 Altaic Language Family
B、The答案 Chinese-Tibet Language Family
C、The通题 Indo-European Language Family
D、The Afro-Asian Language Family

4、As the most convenient tool of human communication, in what way can the communicational function of language come true?
A、In written form
B、With imagination
C、In oral form
D、With body language

5、What are the three fundamental elements of a language?
A、Spelling
B、Vocabulary
C、Pronunciation
D、Meaning

6、Which of the following expressions equal(s) to Lingua Franca?
A、Bridge language
B、Common language
C、Specific language
D、Trade language

7、Languages only exist in the community of humans.

8、With pronunciation, a language can become a spoken one.

9、The quality of pronunciation does not necessarily reflect the connotative meaning of the speech.

10、Pronunciation must be produced through vocal organs.

02.Sound and Meaning –1

第二周 测验

1、How can you distinguish between front vowels, central vowels, and back vowels?
A、In terms of voicing.
B、In terms of which part of the tongue is raised.
C、In terms of how high the tongue is raised.
D、In terms of whether the vowels is tense or lax.

2、In the following groups of vowels, are mid vowels.
A、/?:/, /?:/, /?/
B、/e/, /?/, /i:/
C、/?/, /?/, /?/
D、/?:/, /e/, /?:/

3、In the following statements, which one is right?
A、/e/ is a front and high vowel.
B、/e/ is a front and low vowel.
C、/e/ is a front and mid vowel.
D、/e/ is a centraland mid vowel.

4、Which of the following correctly describes the English phoneme /θ/?
A、A voiceless dental fricative.
B、A voiceless dental plosive.
C、A voiceless alveolar fricative.
D、A voiceless alveolar plosive.

5、The main difference between /m/ and /n/ lies in ________ .
A、manner of articulation
B、place of articulation
C、voicing
D、length

6、/s/ and/θ/ can be distinguished by_____.
A、manner of articulation
B、place of articulation
C、vibration of the vocal cords
D、aspiration of articulation

7、Which of the following words consists of a final consonant cluster?
A、dialect
B、fool
C、speech
D、split

8、Which of the following statements is/are correct about vowels?
A、Vowels are produced without significant constriction of the air flowing through the mouth.
B、There are 28 vowel sounds in English.
C、Vowels refer to the sounds in spoken language that are made with no obstruction of air flow in the mouth.
D、All vowels are voiced.

9、In the following groups of vowels, are not all front vowels.
A、/?:/, /?/, /e/
B、/?/, /?/, /?/
C、/u:/, /i:/ /?:/
D、/e/, /?/, /?/

10、In the following words, have tense vowels.
A、buy
B、bay
C、low
D、but

11、In the following vowels, are back vowels.
A、/ɑ:/
B、/?/
C、/?:/
D、/?/

12、The pairs of English phonemes_____differ in the manner of articulation.
A、/k/ and /t/
B、/d/ and /n/
C、/s/ and /z/
D、/t/ and /s/

13、The pair(s) of English phonemes____ differ inthe place of articulation.
A、/?/ and /?/
B、/θ/ and /e/
C、/t/ and /k/
D、/m/ and /n/

14、In the following consonants, _______are voiceless.
A、/p/
B、/t/
C、/k/
D、/d/

15、Tongue height, tongue backness and lip roundedness are three features that Daniel Jones used in developing the Cardinal Vowel System to describe vowels.

16、Distinctive feature is a particular characteristic which distinguishes one sound of a language from another or one group of sounds from another group.

17、The vowel sound of “flour” is a triphthong.

18、/p/ and /b/ are both pronounced with the lips.

19、In terms of the place ofarticulation, /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/ are all dental.

20、The word “speech” consists of an initial consonant cluster.

03.Sound and Meaning –2

第三周 测验

1、Which of the following words is a monosyllabic word?
A、typical
B、consist
C、process
D、speak

2、Which of the following words consists of an open syllable?
A、peak
B、make
C、proud
D、task

3、Which of the following words consists of a closed syllable?
A、peace
B、make
C、proud
D、wake

4、Which of the following words consists of two syllables?
A、construct
B、central
C、chance
D、encourage

5、Liaison isn’t involved in _________.
A、four eggs
B、consist of
C、working place
D、new coat

6、What would you like, hot (/h?t/) tea (/ti:/) or black coffee? In this sentence, the /t/ in “hot”and /t/ in “tea” should merge into one.

7、The word “walked” should be pronounced as [?w?:kt?].

8、The right pronunciation of the word “see” is [xi:].

9、The right pronunciation of “grow” should be [ɡ??r??].

10、Syllable structure is a difficult area for Chinese EFL learners.

04.Intonation Phrasing -1

第四周 测验

1、Which syntactic constituent corresponds with intonation units more frequently?
A、Clause
B、Phrase
C、Sentence
D、Word

2、Intonation reflects in:
A、The rise and the fall of the voice
B、The speech rate
C、The change of loudness
D、The stress of words

3、What is the function(s) of intonation?
A、To differentiate words
B、To vary meaning
C、To imply different intents
D、To show different attitudes

4、A sense group can be comprised of syntactic-units such as:
A、A phrase
B、A word
C、A sentence
D、A clause

5、Which data proves the consistency of intonation-unit, syntactic-unit and sense unit?
A、At least 80% of intonation-unit matches syntactic constituent in monologues
B、Co-occurrence of one intonation-unit and one sentence is less than 50%
C、Co-occurrence of one intonation-unit and one sentence is more than 50%
D、At least 95% of intonation-unit matches syntactic constituent in read speech

6、Sense equals to the meaning of a word or a phrase.

7、Sense group refers to a group of sensory verbs.

8、The hierarchical structure in syntactic constituent is: sentence-phrase-clause-word.

9、Pause is the most frequently mentioned marker of an intonation-unit boundary.

10、We usually identify intonation-units by pitch.

05.Intonation Phrasing -2

第五周 测验

1、What is the function(s) of pause in a flow of speech?
A、Relaxing
B、Emphasizing
C、Waiting for applause
D、Avoiding ambiguity

2、How do you understand the following sentence? I didn’t come because he told me.
A、I came, because he told me something.
B、I didn’t come, but not because he told me.
C、I came, but not because he told me.
D、I didn’t come, because he told me something.

3、Who might be dressed in the following sentence? She dressed and fed the baby.
A、Only the woman
B、Only the baby
C、Both the woman and the baby
D、No one

4、How do you understand following sentences with different positions of pause: (1) I sent some presents to my friend who lives in Nanjing (2) I sent some presents to my friend // who lives in Nanjing
A、Sentence (1) means I only have one friend, and she lives in Nanjing.
B、Sentence (1) means I have more than one friend and one of them lives in Nanjing
C、Sentence (2) means I only have one friend, and she lives in Nanjing.
D、Sentence (2) means I have more than one friend and one of them lives in Nanjing

5、How do you understand the following sentence? Lily didn’t answer my question honestly.
A、Lily is always honest.
B、Lily just didn’t give me an answer.
C、I am honest.
D、Lily lied to me

6、Why Chinese EFL Learners tend to produce too many pauses in their English speech?
A、Because of the influence of Chinese
B、Because of their inadequate competence of English
C、Because the rhythmic unit of Chinese is smaller than in English
D、Because they need more time to process their speech

7、Choose the sentence(s) with the wrong position of pause:
A、Mack //what are you doing
B、Mack what are you doing
C、What are you doing // Mack
D、What are you doing Mack

8、The strength and duration of the pause may lead to different meanings in a flow of speech.

9、In sentence “Mary left her mother to make a cup of coffee”, Mary’s mother cannot be the one who made coffee.

10、In sentence “The manager chose Eddie a teacher”, “teacher” may refer to Eddie or someone else.

06.Stress and Rhythm -1

第六周 测验

1、How many syllables are there in the word banana?
A、2
B、3
C、4
D、5

2、Did you the professor’s notes today?
A、RECOrd
B、REcord
C、reCORD
D、recoRD

3、The President of the United States lives in the _____?
A、WHITE HOUSE
B、WHITE house
C、WHITEhouse
D、white HOUSE

4、Which of the following is correct?
A、photoGRAPH
B、phoTOGRAph
C、photoGRApher
D、phoTOgrapher

5、Which of the following ways are stresses correctly expressed?
A、higher in pitch
B、spoken more slowly
C、longer in duration
D、louder in intensity

6、Which of the following are content words?
A、nouns
B、verbs
C、auxiliaries
D、adverbs

7、Each word has only one stress and the stress in always on the vowel.

8、For compound adjectives (like bad-tempered, old-fashioned), the stress is on the FIRST part.

9、Vowel reduction is used on stressed syllables in order to make the unstressed syllables less prominent.

10、Word stress is important because it can help you understand a word even if you did not hear it clearly.

07.Stress and Rhythm -2

第七周 测验

1、In sentence stress, new information is usually _____while given information is ____?
A、weakened, weakened
B、weakened, stressed
C、stressed, weakened
D、stressed, stressed

2、Which of the following responses to the question below is correctly stressed? Q: WHAT is your name?
A、MY name is Peter.
B、My NAME is Peter.
C、My name IS Peter.
D、My name is PETER.

3、Which of the following responses to the question below is correctly stressed? Q: WHOSE name is Peter?
A、MY name is Peter.
B、My NAME is Peter.
C、My name IS Peter.
D、My name is PETER.

4、Rhythm is important in English because_____.
A、It helps a learner sound natural and fluent.
B、It helps a speaker clarify the meaning of their words.
C、It makesEnglish poems sound more beautiful.
D、All of above

5、Which of the following conversation is stressed correctly?
A、--WHEN does the SCHOOL END? -- It ends in JULY.
B、-- When DOES the school END? -- It ENDS in JULY.
C、-- WHEN does the school END? -- IT ends in July.
D、-- WHEN DOES the school end? -- It ends IN JULY.

6、Which of the following words or phrases are correctly stressed?
A、unKNOWN
B、unKNOWNWRIter
C、upSTAIRS
D、upSTAIRSNEIghbor

7、Isochrony may change the lexical stress of English words when clustered together.

8、Chinese is a “syllable-timed” language and English is a “stress-timed” language.

9、In English, syllables always last for a fairly constant length of time.

10、The nucleus of an intonationunit is usually the first content word of the unit.

08.Tonal Aspects -1

第八周 测验

1、A________language is a language in which ________language can determine the meaning of a word.
A、tone, tone
B、intonation, intonation
C、stress, stress
D、rhythm, rhythm

2、Chinese is a ________language. English is an________ language.
A、tone, intonation
B、intonation, tone
C、tone, tone
D、intonation, intonation

3、Chinese has ________ basic lexical tones and one neutral tone.
A、four
B、two
C、three
D、five

4、In Chinese,________ have relatively fixed tones.
A、most words
B、no words
C、some words
D、all words

5、In English, the nucleus usually occurs on the ________lexical item.
A、last
B、first
C、second
D、last but one

6、Rising Tone is most often used in ________.
A、Yes-no questions
B、Wh-questions
C、Commands
D、Statements

7、Falling Tone is frequently used in ________,________,________ andExclamations.
A、Statements
B、Wh-questions
C、Commands
D、Yes-no questions

8、In English, there are three primary tones, fall, rise and fall-rise.

9、The primary tones have two major functions, indicating sentence types and labeling information status.

10、To label information status,rising tone indicates the current information is new and falling tone means that the current information is given.

09.Tonal Aspects -2

第九周 测验

1、“Hi.” with ____________expresses the speaker’s joy to see the listener.
A、High Fall
B、Low Fall
C、High Rise
D、Level Tone

2、“Thank you.” with____________ sounds casual and is usually used to show gratitude for a small favor.
A、Low Rise
B、High Rise
C、High Fall
D、Level Tone

3、Boundary tones often work closely with____________ to construct intonation groups.
A、pause
B、stress
C、enunciation
D、intermediate tones

4、In a British cafe, when a waitress says“Sugar?”, to ask a customer whether he or she wants sugar in his or her coffee, she often uses____________.
A、Rising Tone
B、Falling Tone
C、Level Tone
D、Rise-Fall

5、In English, there are three secondary falling tones,____________,____________and____________.
A、Low Fall
B、High Fall
C、Rise-Fall
D、Fall-Rise

6、Low Fall in statements conveys____________or____________.
A、detachment
B、lack of involvment
C、intimacy
D、involvement

7、In a conversation, the speaker’s use of ____________ or____________ at the end of statements may discourage the listener from replying.
A、Rising Tone
B、Level Tone
C、High Fall
D、Low Fall

8、In English, there are three secondary rising tones, low rise, high rise and rise-fall.

9、High Fall in statements indicates that the speaker is interested or involved.

10、The communicative functions of tones include expressing emotions，maintaining the interactional order，building up identities and constructing the context for interpretation.

10.Public Speaking

第十周 测验

1、If we address to a larger group, we need to____________ the volume and pay attention to those who sit ____________ us.
A、increase; far away from
B、decrease; far away from
C、increase; close to
D、decrease; close to

2、Native speakers of English usually talk in their daily conversation at a rate _____________per minute.
A、between 130 and 170 words
B、between 90 and 130 words
C、between 110 and 150 words
D、between 150 and 190 words

3、A _____________ rate usually helps us to express happiness, while a _____________ rate helps us to express sadness.
A、fast; slow
B、slow; fast
C、fast; normal
D、normal; slow

4、A general rule of sentence accentuation is to stress_____________ and weaken_____________ .
A、content words; function words
B、function words; content words
C、the beginning; the ending
D、the ending; the beginning

5、Dale Carnegie once said, “_____________, in public speech, is not mere silence-it is silence made designedly eloquent.”
A、Pause
B、Intonation
C、Stress
D、Rhythm

6、Public speaking serves four general purposes:___________, ___________, ___________ and ___________. （多选）
A、to inform
B、to inspire
C、to persuade
D、to entertain

7、Five important factors in a public speaking involve______________ , ______________,______________ ______________, and effect. （多选）
A、speaker
B、idea
C、medium
D、audience

8、Three important elements in the criteria for assessing speaking are______________ , ______________ and ______________. （多选）
A、accuracy
B、fluency
C、complexity
D、flexibility

9、Top-level public speakers should bear in mind six words: accurate, fluent,_____________ , _____________, _____________and_____________. （多选）
A、simple
B、clear
C、engaging
D、natural

10、Enunciation means to pronounce words____________ , ____________ and ____________. （多选）
A、correctly
B、clearly
C、completely
D、quickly

11.World Englishes -1

第十一周 测验

1、According to Kachru’s Three Circles Model of English, which circle would these English varieties, Singaporean English, Canadian English, German English, China English, Indian English, belong to respectively?
A、Outer, Inner, Outer, Expanding, Expanding
B、Outer, Inner, Expanding, Expanding, Outer
C、Expanding, Inner, Outer, Expanding, Outer
D、Outer, Inner, Expanding, Expanding, Expanding

2、What do RP and GA stand for respectively?
A、Renowned Pronunciation, General American
B、Renowned Pronunciation, Global American
C、Received Pronunciation, General American
D、Received Pronunciation, Global American

3、We often use World Englishes to emphasize that the language belongs to speakers who use it as a/an _______
A、dialect
B、native language
C、additional language
D、foreign language

4、The goal of proposing the Three Circles Model of English is to ________
A、present the patterns of how people worldwide acquire English
B、describe the types of how English spreads worldwide nducting research
C、show the functional domains in which English is used internationally
D、seek for the convenience of conducting research

5、What is the most common used model accent for learners of English as a foreign or second language?
A、RP
B、GA
C、Their own English varieties
D、No model at all

6、The British and the Americans are the only processors of English.

7、It is possible to communicate effectively among speakers of different English varieties.

8、Both RP and GA are widely used by the well-educated people, and on national radios and TV networks.

9、American English is merely shaped by British English.

10、It is improper to use the word “Englishes” under any situation.

12.World Englishes -2

第十二周 测验

1、Which of the following does NOT involve the difference of pronunciation between RP and GA?
A、far
B、writer
C、this
D、either

2、Two speakers from different countries are discussing a picture. SpeakerA …and the second picture, the bottom of the, the bottom of the picture, there is mmm gley house. Speaker B (frowns) Speaker A (register A’s frown) gley and small house. It’s very old. Speaker B You mean grey house? Speaker A Yeah! (adapted from Jenkins 2002: 82) Based on the above conversation, why did these two speakers understand each other finally?
A、Because the conversation is easy.
B、Because these two speakers are smart.
C、Because the deviated consonants are consistent and limited.
D、Because these two speakers are very familiar with each other.

3、If you are going to give a talk to speakers who are from different English varieties, which of the following aspects will you pay attention to during the talk?
A、pausing appropriately
B、stressing the important information
C、using proper tones
D、avoiding any deviated sounds

4、If a foreigner is asking you the way to a shopping market, how would you say this sentence to make the communication effectively? So you can go right, then straight, then go right again, then left, to reach all the way to the top.
A、Using rising tones except for the end of the sentence.
B、Using falling tones exceptfor the end of the sentence.
C、Stressing the words signaling the direction.
D、Nothing special.

5、If one of your friends has a strong accent when he/she speaks English, what suggestions would you give to him/her?
A、Pronouncing every word as clearly as possible.
B、Slowing the speech down.
C、Using some gestures.
D、Practicing hard to eliminate accent.

6、There are more of similarities than of differences between RP and GA.

7、If there is one deviated sound of some speaker’s speech, it must cause misunderstandings.

8、Sometimes native English speakers’ speeches are not easier for us Chinese speakers to understand than those of non-native English speakers.

9、Correct pronunciation of segmentals is the most important aspect in international communication.

10、Conveying information and making ourselves understood by listeners are the primary goal under the context of World Englishes.

期末测验

期末测验

1、 Read and Answer: Who are the speakers?
A、A man and a women
B、A girl and a boy
C、A teacher and a student
D、Mother and her son

2、Read and Answer: Where are they?
A、in the street
B、at home
C、at school
D、on the train

3、Read and Answer: What is the function of Sentence (22)?
A、echo question
B、repetition
C、confirmation
D、examination

4、Read and Answer : Which tone should it be for Sentence (29)?
A、level
B、falling
C、rising
D、fall-rise

5、
A、Theirs a lock on the door.
B、There’s a knock on the door.
C、There’re a lock in the door.
D、None of these.

6、We were impressed by his collection.
A、
B、
C、
D、None of these.

7、True or false choice (underlining indicates stressed syllables) What shall we have for dinner?

8、True or false choice (underlining indicates stressed syllables) I shouldn’t have thought that she could appreciate the approach.

9、True or false choice (underlining indicates stressed syllables)

10、True or false choice (underlining indicates stressed syllables)

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总结

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