Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid or Bead? CD 4 Track 18 录音下载
Read each column down. Next, contrast the single and double tense vowels with each other; and the single and double lax vowels with each other. Finally read all four across.
Tense Vowels Lax Vowels
1. beat bead ● bit bid
2. seat seed ● sit Sid
3. heat he'd ● hit hid
4. Pete impede ● pit rapid
5. feet feed ● fit fin
6. niece knees ● miss Ms.
7. geese he's ● hiss his
8. deep deed ● disk did
9. neat need ● knit (nid)
10. leaf leave ● lift live
Note Bear in mind that the single/double intonation pattern is the same for all final voiced and unvoiced consonants, not just T and D.
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