to spell the past form of the following words when used as verbs, to which one should we first add –k- then -ed?
guests ______ and screamed when the bomb exploded.
of the following words, the underlined part of which one is pronounced differently in american english and in british english?
how is the word schedule pronounced in american english?
the discovery of penicillin, famously, was a happy ______.
they are looking for a happy ______: a house that is not too big but that has lots of storage space.
i wish you many happy ______ of the day.
until his appointment becomes official, ted is keeping a low ______.
a tiger ______ but a wolf ______.
to clean the water bottle which has been used for a long time, white vinegar can be used to remove ______ from the inner surface of the bottle.
the map is drawn to the standard ______ of 1/100,000 so there is not much detail.
nuclear weapons cause destruction on a massive ______.
the sails ______ themselves with wind.
the book is ______. you should have returned it to the library last week.
he had lived illegally in the united states for five years after his visitor's visa ______.
he tried to keep a(n) ______ between work and relaxation.
she ______ her balance and fell.
the cost needs to be balanced ______ its benefits.
the garden is overgrown with ______, so i have to ______ it now.
both parents and children should try to______ the generation gap between them.
monkey king ______ his eyes and looked afar.
what is the meaning of the word sharp in the sentence “there is a sharp contrast between the lives of the poorest and the richest members of society”?
what is the meaning of the word sharp in the sentence “there is a sharp turn on the road ahead”?
what is the meaning of the word sharp in the sentence “she is a very sharp dresser”?
______ and simple clothes are appropriate for school wear.
surely you can see what's wrong; it's as plain as the ______ on your face.
every girl in town admires her for her ______ figure.
look at the lovely ______ cheeks of the baby!
works of art and priceless ______ records were ruthlessly destroyed in the war.
their inventions have contributed to the development of ______ engineering.
we bought a all car for ______ reason.
there is nothing in the world ______ teaches us some lessons.
he is nothing ______ a singer.
i'm not going to _______ his signature for you! what do you take me for?
the term ‘cardboard city’ was ______ to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.
determined to live ______ someday, he managed to get trained in iron molding.
the reality star and her boy-friend have officially ended their five month romance. she claimed yesterday that they parted ______.
13. the boxer beat his wife _______ at home and was then caged for life.
every morning she ______ her huand’s shirt before he goes to work.
sure, you convinced mom to stop those boring violin lessons! but that makes it easier for her to send us to sunday school. don't you realize we've jumped out of the frying ______ into the fire?
______ is a unit for measuring length which equals to 10 meters.
a _______ is a cycle with three wheels, two at the back and one at the front or sometimes otherwise. a. monocycle b. bicycle c. tricycle d. car
20. ______ is the state or custom of being married to only one person at a particular time.
the two sides of a coin are known as ‘______’ and ‘tail’.
i've always been good at math—i guess i just have a ______ for numbers.
when the boss learned tom had been lying, he fired him _______ the spot.
i have to set numerous alarms for the morning because i sleep like a _______ every night!
kim is staying for dinner, and he eats like a _______, so you’d better make some extra food.
vast sums of money were ______ up in the stock market.
those books were normally kept under______ and key in the library.
it's not a(n) ______ that none of the directors are women.
______ is used as a default form of address for women regardless of marital status.
it is not a good idea to miss meals and ______ them with snacks.
in greek mythology, narcissus fell in love with his own ______ in the lake.
darwin's theories about evolution were ______ by many people who believe in god.
mahatma gandhi, the leader of the indian independence movement, ______ the use of violence.
human beings have ______ noses and ears.
good ________ make good neighbors.
he has hired one of the uk’s top lawyers to ______ him against the allegations.
he should think before he speaks, or else he will ______ others.
our boss is not willing to pay the standard wage for the help in our office. so we have to scrape the bottom of the ______ and end up hiring secretaries who can't type or spell.
a ______ of birds flew towards us slowly from far away.
she does the ______ teaching jobs but nothing permanent.
he's always at ______ with his father over politics.
we have an edge over the other team in height, so i'd say the ______ are in our favor.
the police are keeping the suspects under ______.
the word “babysit” comes from its noun form “babysitter” via ______.
the term “mooc” is a(n) ______ for “massive open online course”.
dad still has a bit of his cold, but ______ all are well.
i have no ______ for jane. it's all her own fault.
mr. smith died of cancer in 1996. his wife ______ him by 10 years and passed away in 2006.
which syntactic constituent corresponds with intonation units more frequently?
intonation reflects in:
what is the function(s) of intonation?
a sense group can be comprised of syntactic-units such as:
which data proves the consistency of intonation-unit, syntactic-unit and sense unit?
sense equals to the meaning of a word or a phrase.
sense group refers to a group of sensory verbs.
the hierarchical structure in syntactic constituent is: sentence-phrase-clause-word.
pause is the most frequently mentioned marker of an intonation-unit boundary.
we usually identify intonation-units by pitch.
what is the function(s) of pause in a flow of speech?
how do you understand the following sentence? i didn’t come because he told me.
who might be dressed in the following sentence? she dressed and fed the baby.
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
how do you understand the following sentence? lily didn’t answer my question honestly.
why chinese efl learners tend to produce too many pauses in their english speech?
choose the sentence(s) with the wrong position of pause:
the strength and duration of the pause may lead to different meanings in a flow of speech.
in sentence “mary left her mother to make a cup of coffee”, mary’s mother cannot be the one who made coffee.
in sentence “the manager chose eddie a teacher”, “teacher” may refer to eddie or someone else.
how many syllables are there in the word banana?
did you the professor’s notes today?
the president of the united states lives in the _____?
which of the following is correct?
which of the following ways are stresses correctly expressed?
which of the following are content words?
each word has only one stress and the stress in always on the vowel.
for compound adjectives (like bad-tempered, old-fashioned), the stress is on the first part.
vowel reduction is used on stressed syllables in order to make the unstressed syllables less prominent.
word stress is important because it can help you understand a word even if you did not hear it clearly.
in sentence stress, new information is usually _____while given information is ____?
which of the following responses to the question below is correctly stressed? q: what is your name?
which of the following responses to the question below is correctly stressed? q: whose name is peter?
rhythm is important in english because_____.
which of the following conversation is stressed correctly?
which of the following words or phrases are correctly stressed?
isochrony may change the lexical stress of english words when clustered together.
chinese is a “syllable-timed” language and english is a “stress-timed” language.
in english, syllables always last for a fairly constant length of time.
the nucleus of an intonationunit is usually the first content word of the unit.
chinese is a ________language. english is an________ language.
chinese has ________ basic lexical tones and one neutral tone.
in chinese,________ have relatively fixed tones.
in english, the nucleus usually occurs on the ________lexical item.
rising tone is most often used in ________.
falling tone is frequently used in ________,________,________ andexclamations.
in english, there are three primary tones, fall, rise and fall-rise.
the primary tones have two major functions, indicating sentence types and labeling information status.
to label information status,rising tone indicates the current information is new and falling tone means that the current information is given.
“hi.” with ____________expresses the speaker’s joy to see the listener.
“thank you.” with____________ sounds casual and is usually used to show gratitude for a all favor.
boundary tones often work closely with____________ to construct intonation groups.
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____________.
in english, there are three secondary falling tones,____________,____________and____________.
low fall in statements conveys____________or____________.
in a conversation, the speaker’s use of ____________ or____________ at the end of statements may discourage the listener from replying.
in english, there are three secondary rising tones, low rise, high rise and rise-fall.
high fall in statements indicates that the speaker is interested or involved.
the communicative functions of tones include expressing emotions，maintaining the interactional order，building up identities and constructing the context for interpretation.