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examination are given below:
Read questions and underline or circle keywords
Scan the passage and look for information given in the features and questions
Skim through the areas that are surrounded by keywords and features in the
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Write letters in the answer sheet
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Sample Practice
Pronunciation and Physiognomy
Imagine the scene: you are sitting on the tube anti on guts someone you
instinctively feel Is American, To make sure you ask them the time, fend is
light, but how did you know?
A. The writer Arthur Hue’s tier onto remarked that friends of his, whom he
met thirty years after they emigrated to the United States, had acquired an
“American physiognomy”, i.e. a broadened jaw, an appearance which is also
prevalent In the indigenous population. An anthropologist friend of his
attributed this to the increased use of the jaw musculature In American
enunciation. This “change of countenance” in immigrants had already been
observed by the historian M. Fishberg in 1910. To paraphrase the
philosopher Emerson, certain national, social and religious groups, such as
ageing actors, long-term convicts and celibate priests, to give just a few
examples, develop a distinguishing “look”, which is not easily defined, but
readily recognised, Their way of life affects their facial expression and
physical features, giving the mistaken impression that these traits are of
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hereditary or racial” origin. All the factors mentioned above contribute, as
well as heredity, lint the question of appearance being affected by
pronunciation, as in the ease of American immigrants (including those from
other English speaking countries) over the course of many years, is of great
interest and culls fur further study into the science of voice production. This
can only benefit those working in the field of speech therapy, elocution and
the pronunciation of foreign languages, and help the student from a purely
physiological point of view, Naturally, the numerous psychological and
socio-linguistic factors that inhibit most adult learners of foreign languages
from acquiring a “good” pronunciation constitute a completely different and
no less important Issue that requires separate investigation.
B. The pronunciation of the various forms of English around the world today
is affected by the voice being “plated” in different parts of the mouth, We use
DUI-speech organs in certain ways to produce specific sounds, and these
muscles have to practice to learn new phonemes, Non-Americans should
look In the mirror while repeating “I really never heard of poor reward for
valor with full use of the USA retroflex hi phoneme, and note what happens
to their jawbones after three or four repetitions. Imagine the effect of these
movements on the jaw muscles after twenty years! This phoneme is one of
the most noticeable features of US English and one that non-A merit and is
always exaggerate when mimicking the accent, Likewise, standard British
REL is often parodied, and its whine of superiority mocked to the point of
turning the end of one’s nose up as much as possible. Not only does this
enhance the “performance”, but also begs the question of whether this look is
the origin of the expression “stuck up”?
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Questions 1-3
Write the appropriate letter in Boxes 1-3 on your answer sheet.
Note that there are more Observations than people, so you will not use all of them.
You can use each observation once only.
Use the information in the text to match the People listed (1-3) with the
Observations (1-vii).
People
28 Koestler
29 Fishberg
30 Emerson
Observations
i. Americans use their jaw more to enunciate
ii. Immigrants acquire physiognomic features common among the
Indigenous population
iii. Facial expression and physical features arc hereditary
iv. Lifestyle affects physiognomy
v. Americans have a broadened jaw
vi. The appearance of his friends had changed since they moved to the
United States
vii. The change of countenance was unremarkable
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Answers
1. vi. The appearance of his friends had changed since they
moved to the United States
2. ii. Immigrants acquire physiognomical features common
among the Indigenous population
3. iv. Lifestyle affects physiognomy
Explanation
For the first question, the answer is in the first paragraph, 1st line; “The writer
Arthur Hue’s tier onto remarked that friends of his, whom he met thirty years
after they emigrated to the United States, had acquired an “American
physiognomy”
For the second question, the answer is in paragraph from 1st line, “The writer
Arthur Hue’s tier onto remarked that friends of his, whom he met thirty years
after they emigrated to the United States, had acquired an “American
physiognomy”, i.e. a broadened jaw, an appearance which is also prevalent In
the indigenous population. An anthropologist friend of his attributed this to the
increased use of the jaw musculature In American enunciation. This “change of
countenance” in immigrants had already been observed by the historian M.
Fishberg in 1910,.” i. is incorrect because it was an anthropologist friend of
Koestler who said this” ii. is not correct, because Koestler was talking about his
friends rather than Immigrants in general; and v is not stated as a general
principle.vi. is incorrect, because Plshberg was talking about immigrants in
general, not his friends.
For the third question, the answer can be found In the first para paragraph, 9th
line; “Their way of life affects their facial expression and physical features,
giving the mistaken impression that these traits are of hereditary or racial”
origin.” . iii. Is incorrect, because Emerson says this is a mistaken impression.
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