Question

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I.    Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

1.   A. insect                      B. percent                    C. wetland                  D. extinct

2.   A. agencies                  B. medicine                 C. species                    D. circle

3.   A. crisis                       B. exist                        C. primary                   D. fertile

4.   A. serious                    B. thousand                 C. found                      D. around

5.   A. chart                       B. postcard                  C. leopard                   D. hardly

6.   A. rival                        B. title                         C. silver                       D. surprise

7.   A. golden                    B. compete                  C. host                         D. propose

8.   A. clear                        B. dear                        C. wear                        D. sear

9.   A. wrestling                B. level                        C. medal                      D. result

10. A. ranked                    B. gained                     C. prepared                 D. proved

II.  Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern.

1.   A. periodic                  B. contagious              C. electric                    D. suspicious

2.   A. environmental        B. conservatively        C. approximately         D. considerable

3.   A. arrangement           B. tourism                   C. opponent                D. contractual

4.   A. respectable             B. affectionate            C. kindergarten           D. occasional

5.   A. particular                B. environment           C. advertisement         D. circumstances

III. Choose the correct answers A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

1.   Although he was under no                        , the shopkeeper replaced the defective battery free of charge.

      A. urgency                  B. guarantee                C. obligation               D. insistence

2.   Old Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will                     .

      A. pull through            B. pull up                    C. pull back                 D. pull out

3.   To be a good short story writer one needs, among other things, a very               imagination.

      A. vivid                       B. living                      C. bright                      D. sparkling

4.   This ticket                                      you to a free meal in our new restaurant.

      A. confers                   B. entitles                    C. grants                      D. credits

5.   He was completely                        by the thief’s disguise.

      A. taken away             B. taken down             C. taken in                   D. taken through

6.   This book gives a brief                  of the history of the castle and details of the art collection in the main hall.

      A. outline                    B. reference                 C. article                      D. research

7.   Mark is very set in his ways, but John has a more                        attitude to life.

      A. changeable             B. flexible                   C. moveable                D. fluid

8.   I’m not serious investor, but I like to                    in the stock market.

      A. splash                     B. splatter                    C. paddle                    D. dabble

9.   In all                      , there will never be a Third World War.

      A. odds                       B. probability              C. certainty                 D. possibilities

10. He had to retire from the match, suffering from a                         ligament.

      A. tom                         B. broken                    C. slipped                    D. sprained

11. You have to be rich to send a child to a private school because the fees are                   .

      A. astrological             B. aeronautical            C. astronomical           D. atmospherical

12. Archaeology is one of the most interesting scientific                  .

      A. divisions                 B. disciplines               C. matters                    D. compartments

13. It is doubtful whether the momentum of the peace movement can be                 .

      A. sustained                B. supplied                  C. supported               D. subverted

14. Conversations you strike up with travelling acquaintances usually tend to be                .

      A. imperative              B. perverse                  C. insufficient             D. trivial

15. Charles Babbage’s difference engine widely regarded as the                   of the computer.

      A. ancestor                  B. precursor                 C. antecedent              D. premonition