The consonant /s/ in the word "smile" can be described as: A. voiceless alveolar fricative B. voiceless bilabial liquid C. voiced alveolar plosive D. voiced bilabial fricative 2. The vowel ___________ is a low back vowel. A. /i:/ B. /u/ C. /e/ D. /a:/ 3. Which of the following is not a minimal pair? A. /li:f/ /fi:l/ B. /sip/ /zip/ C. /sai/ /sei/ D. /keit/ /feit/ 4. A sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of word from another in a given language is a ______________. A. allophone B. phone C. phoneme 5. Classification of English speech sounds in terms of mannner of articulation involves the following EXCEPT ___________ A. fricatives B. lateral C. affricates D. bilabial 6. Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds? A. acoustic phonetics B. articulatory phonetics C. auditory phonetics D. Neither of them 7. Which one is different from the others according to manners of articulation? A. /f/ B. /v/ C. /z/ D. /w/ 8. Which one is different from others according to places of articulation? A. /n/ B. /m/ C. /b/ D. /p/ 9. An aspirated p, an unaspirated p and an unreleased p are ______________ of the p hponeme. A. analogues B. tagmemes C. morphemes D. allophones 10. Which kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating? A. voiceless B. voiced C. glottal stop D. consonant