英语语音平时作业（一）
（笔答题部分）
班级： _____________ 姓名： ____________ 学号： ________________ 分数： ______________
Directions: Choose from the following groups of words the one you hear. Each of the words will be read twice .
1. A. pat B. bat C. hat D. fat
2. A. tip B. dip C. hip D. lip
3. A. share B. chair C. sheer D. cheer
4. A. noon B. moon C. room D. loom
5. A. plight B. blight C. pride D. bride
Directions: Choose the correct answers / responses to the questions you hear. Each of the sentences will be read twice .
1. A. Yes, did you win it?
B. Yes, it's really cheap.
2. A. Call a doctor!
B. Call a waiter.
3. A. No, he isn't.
B. No, she isn't.
4. A. A movie.
B. My car.
5. A. Yes, it's free.
B. Yes, it's three.
III. How do you pronounce the word? 20%
Directions: Listen to the following sentences and write down the phonetic symbols of the underlined words. Each of the sentences will be read twice .
Example: I bought a new raincoat the other day. / 5 r e i n k [ u t /
1. Tom is a very good singer . ________________
2. I wasn't ready until midnight . ________________
3. Blackbirds are not necessarily black. ________________
4. Mr. Brown is a technician . ________________
5. Here's our new timetable . ________________
6. All the group leaders are girls. ________________
7. The audience gave him three cheers. ________________
8. The paper was written by a student. ________________
9. Spanish is spoken in Spain and many other countries. _________________
10. He is going to see his aunts and uncles . ________________
Directions: Listen to the following pairs of words and decide whether they are the same or different. If they are the same write ( S ), if different, write ( D ). Each pair will be read twice .
Example: ( D)
1. ( )
2. ( )
3. ( )
4. ( )
5. ( )
Directions: Listen to the following sentences and decide whether A or B should be the matching answer. Each sentence will be read twice .
Example: (There's a yellow flower in the green grass.)
Where is the flower? _____ _A__ ____
A. In the grass. B. In the glass.
1. The speaker was talking about the __________.
A. light B. night
2. What did the speaker see? __________
A. No houses. B. Low houses.
3. The speaker was talking about the __________.
A. snacks B. slacks
4. What's in the river? ___________
A. boat B. ball
5. The speaker was talking about the __________.
A. laws B. wars
6. The speaker was talking about the __________.
A. sloe B. snow
7. The speaker was talking about __________.
A. joke B. yolk
8. The speaker was talking about __________.
A. food B. a person
9. He is now __________.
A. still alive B. dead
10. The fire was __________.
A. glowing B. growing
Directions: Listen to the following passage and fill in the missing words or phrases. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, a short pause will be given after each of the sentences with missing words.
Have you ever seen a horse with toes? Millions of years ago, horses had many toes. They had four toes on each _ 1 _. They had three toes on each back foot. The horses were _ 2 _.
These small horses lived in the _ 3 _. Their many toes helped the horses run over _ 4 _.
It is very hot in the forest. But the _ 5 _ changed. It became cold. Many trees could not live in cold _ 6 _. The trees died and fell. Open _ 7 _ took the place of forests. The sun made the _ 8 _ dry and hard.
Horses began to change, too. They began to get bigger. This took a long time. On _9 _, horses needed only their middle toes _ 10 _. Their middle toes became hard. After a long while, horses had only one hard toe on each foot. We call this hard toe a hoof.
1. _____________________ 2. ____________________
3. _____________________ 4. ____________________
5. _____________________ 6. ____________________
7. _____________________ 8. ____________________
9. _____________________ 10. ____________________