PART 1: .Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from
that of the others. Write your answer in the right box below.
1. A. chooses B. houses C. rises D. horses
2. A. busy B. noisy C. sugar D. present
3. A. practice B. device C. service D. office
4. A. method B. negative C. secondary D. media
5. A. naked B. sacred C. needed D. walked
PART 2: Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others.
Write your answer in the right box below.
6. A. television B. education C. entertainment D.
information
7. A. conversation B. isolation C. traditional D. situation
8. A. capital B. activity C. different D. opera
9. A. affect B. effective C. expand D. charity
10. A. family B. probably C. animal D. minority
PART 3: Choose the best answer from the four options (A, B, C and D) to complete each
sentence below. Write your answer in the right box below.
11. They helped handicapped children to_______________ their difficulties.
A. finish B. overcome C. pass by D. conquer
12. People who are easily ________ by rumors can never be good friends.
A. influenced B. attracted C. purchased D. occurred
13. Mary apologized ___________not phoning me earlier.
A. for B. with C. on D. in
14. It was ____________ a difficult question that we couldn’t answer it.
A. so B. such C. very D. too
15. I don’t think Frank is old___________to stay at home alone.
A. so B. too C. enough D. even
16. ___________all our careful plans, a lot of things went wrong.
A. Although B. Because C. Because of D. In spite of
17.You will become ill______________ you stop working so hard.
A. until B. when C. unless D. if
18. Tom and Mary never came to class late. __________________.
A. So did we B. Neither did we C. We did either D. Neither we
did
19. If you ________ to my advice in the first place, you wouldn’t be in this mess now.
A. listen B. will listen C. listened D. had
listened
20. Helen asked me __________the film called “Star Wars”.
A. if I had seen B. have I seen C. have you seen D. if had I