Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A.regard
B.offer
C.reduce
D.persuade

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A.material
B.official
C.pyramid
D.survival

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.This morning I bought _____ book and a pencil. The pen is in my bag, but I don’t know where ____ book is.
A.a – a
B.a – the
C.the – the
D.the – a

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.If you had taken your dad’s advice, you ______ such a silly mistake.
A.would have avoided
B.would have avoid
C.would avoid
D.have avoided

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.By the end of last March, I ____ English for five years.
A.have been studying
B.will have been studyingwill have studied
C.had been studying
D.will have studied

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A.work
B.stork
C.force
D.form

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A.closed
B.stopped
C.missed
D.laughed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.
A.Ingenious as it may be, the plan will never work in practice.
B.Ingenious as may the plan, it will never work in practice.
C.The plan may be too ingenious to work in practice.
D.The plan is as impractical as it is ingenious.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.Kate completed her higher education. She then decided to travel the world before getting a job.
A.Without completing her higher education, Kate decided to travel the world before getting a job.
B.Given that Kate decided to travel the world before getting a job, she completed her higher education.
C.Having completed her higher education, Kate decided to travel the world before getting a job.
D.Kate had scarcely travelled the world before getting a job when she completed her higher education.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.It is reported that two people were seriously injured in that accident.
A.Two people reported to have been seriously injured in that accident.
B.Two people are reported to have been seriously injured in that accident.
C.Two people reported to be seriously injured in that accident.
D.Two people reported to have seriously injured in that accident.