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