TASK: 1 General classification of speech sounds does not include the following criterion:
a) the presence or absence of an articulatory obstruction
b) the duration of articulation
c) the concentrated or diffused character of muscular tension
d) the force of exhalation
2 The resonator mechanism consists of:
a) the pharynx, the larynx, the mouth cavity and the nasal cavity
b) the tongue, the vocal cords, the pharynx and the larynx
c) the lungs, the bronchi, the wind pipe and the glottis
d) the lungs, the teeth, the soft palate and the uvula
3 The organ of speech which can not be characterized as active is:
a) tongue
b) lips
c) teeth
d) uvula
4. The grammatical approach to the study of intonation was worked out by :
a) L.V.Shcherba
b) D.Jones
c) H.Sweet
d) M.Hallyday
5. The structure of intonation Pattern of the English language is as follows:
a) head, body, scale, tail
b) pre-head, head, fall, end
c) pre-head, head, nucleus, tail
d) rise, head, body, tail
6. The majority of phoneticians distinguish such main types of intonation:
a) falling and rising

b) high and low
c) energetic and non-energetic (weak)
d) emphatic and unemphatic
7.The word "busy" is divided into syllables in the following way:
a) bi-zi
b) biz-i
c) bizi
d) biz-zi​

2.He did not tell me that he had received a telegram from her. 3. I asked him if he knew where she lived. I said I did not know her address. 4. He asked me if I could give him your address. 5. She said that he had given her the wrong address. 6. I asked him where he had put my letter. 7. He told us that they had spent all the money, 8. I was sitting in an armchair and thinking of my coming trip across the North Sea when the door suddenly opened and an old friend of mine whom I had not seen for a very long time entered the room. 9. She came to see us just at the time when we were having dinner. It was the first time I had seen her. 10. I saw him just as he was leaving the hotel. 11. I had not seen him before we met at the concert. 12. He had left the house before I had time to ask him anything. 13. After spending several days in Paris he felt lonely and wanted to return home. 14. I thought he had already gone home. 15. I found the old man in the garden. He was talking to some children who were standing around listening to him. 16. He was speaking/spoke a language we had never heard before. 17. He told me he had learnt it from the newspaper. 18. He entered the room, took something from the desk and went out.