57. Reading Skills Comprehension: Language

LANGUAGE

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow-                   

Language is a verbal presentation. Phonetic code of delivery makes the rapid growth of culture, race, and origin with the modern age of technology causing reliable national growth. A new database for spoken English is being created at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory. Professor John Coleman and his team are one of four teams to win the ‘Digging into Data’ competition set up to encourage imaginative, forward-thinking research using large-scale computing in Humanities. The resulting database will contain a year’s worth of spoken English and the project mining a year of speech will create the world’s largest searchable database of spoken English Sound recordings. It will be a useful resource for anyone interested in spoken English, not just phoneticians and linguists, but also many other kinds of people such as teachers of English language, social historians, and interested members of the public.\ Professor Coleman said, “In a world where there are more multimedia than text, audio searching is becoming a vital technology, even Google is moving into it now. We will provide the data so that it is searchable, but we can’t even begin to imagine the full range of questions about language that people will want to use it for.”

Answer the following questions:-

1. A database enabling people to search for English sound recordings is being created by

{i} Professor John Coleman   {ii} Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory

{iii} Google                            {iv} Phoneticians

2. Digging into data aims at

{i] encouraging research         {ii} collecting data

{iii} making English easy       {iv} promoting English as an international language

3. The new database for spoken English will benefit

{i} students and teachers        {ii} the phoneticians

{iii} linguists                           {iv} all of the above

4. Reliable national growth is the result of

{i} Spoken English                               {ii} computers

{iii }the modern age of technology    {iv }the work done by historians

4.‘Digging into Data’ competition has been won by

{i} one team                                        {ii} two teams

{iii} Professor Coleman                      {iv} four teams

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