MCQ Bank
Despite political pressure periodic efforts to _________ English with Urdu have been unsuccessful.
- A) Replicate
- B) Replace
- C)
- D)
The production of so many Englishes has ________________ the situation.
- A) smoothened
- B) triggered
- C) complicated
- D) simplified
Demand from the President of the USA for initiation of trade relations between the two countries: Commodore Perry’s entrance into Tokyo Bay in _____.
- A) 1857
- B) 1853
- C)
- D)
The underprivileged also desire to learn English for upward ________ mobility.
- A) political
- B) social
- C)
- D)
____________ is the official language of Pakistan.
- A) Punjabi
- B) Pshto
- C) Urdu
- D) English
Pakistan is a __________ country.
- A) multilingual
- B) bilingual
- C) none of the given options
- D) monolingual
Chinese English is among the most ____________ emerging Englishes.
- A) debated
- B) complicated
- C) prominent
- D) subdued
Kachru describes the Sub-continent’s variety of English as the ____________ variety.
- A) educated
- B) less standard
- C) non- acceptable
- D) backward
The three dominant languages of European Union are French, ______________ and English.
- A) Spanish
- B) Dutch
- C) Italian
- D) German
Chinese English is the evidence of the expansion of English beyond the _____________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) African continent
- C) British colonies
- D) French peninsula
Sub-continent is a multicultural and ______________ place.
- A) multilingual
- B) bilingual
- C) trilingual
- D) monolingual
_________ languages spoken in London alone.
- A) 310
- B) 300
- C)
- D)
Continuous efforts are made to ____________English in the Sub-continent.
- A) standardize
- B) decrease
- C) abolish
- D) degenerate
We cannot deny the fact that English has always shown a __________ forceful presence in the Sub-continent.
- A) temporary
- B) voluntary
- C) forceful
- D) meagre
A major controversy faced by World Englishes is the availability of __________for indigenized varieties of English.
- A) instructional material
- B) one model
- C) guidelines
- D) resource persons
ATR stands for _______.
- A) Advanced Tongue Retraction
- B) Advanced Tongue Root
- C) Attended Tongue Root
- D) Appearing Tongue Root
The IPA symbol for nasalization (used on nasal vowels) is called _______.
- A) cedilla
- B) eth
- C) tilde
- D) streg
Height and back-ness of the tongue are the features of _______ sounds.
- A) semivowel
- B) vowel and consonant
- C) consonant
- D) vowel
Which of the following vowel sounds (in the given words) will be uttered with neutral lips?
- A) Put
- B) Set
- C) Bat
- D) But
Nasalization in vowels is a common feature of _______ languages.
- A) British
- B) African
- C) American
- D) Indo Aryan