Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

Question 1: A. laughter              B. caught                C. daughter            D. augment

Question 2: A. incline                 B. eradicate            C. exacerbate         D. enclosure

Question 3: A. friends                B. opinions              C. picnics                D. computers

Question 4: A. chimpanzee         B. interviewee         C. refugee              D. committee

Question 5: A. politeness           B. conversation       C. resolution           D. introduction

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.

Question 6: I'd love to have lived in the old days, when people.......to market by horse and carriage.

A. have been travelling      B. got used to travelling   C. would travel          D. had been travelling

Question 7: I'll give you the phone number of my hotel so that you can reach me if anything happens. ......anything happen. I want you lo look after my children.

A. Can                    B. Might                            C. Will                     D. Should

Question 8: We've been together through......in our friendship, and we won't desert each other now.

A. bad and good      B. thick and thin                C. odds and ends    D. spick and span

Question 9: ......a scholarship, I entered the frightening and unknown territory of private education.

A. To award                      B. Having awarded  C. To be awarded    D. Having been awarded

Question 10: Millions of people say Coke tastes best from a bottle, and whether this is scientifically provable or not. These millions know they like the look of the bottle and the way it fits so......into the hand. 

A. neatly                 B. orderly                          C. tidily                   D. finitely

Q 11: Language is so....woven into human experience that it is scarcely possible to imagine life without it.

A. tightly                 B. tautly                            C. rigidly                 D. stiffly

Question 12: ......I'd like to help you out, I'm afraid I just haven't got any spare money at the moment.

A. Much as             B. Try as                           C. Even                  D. Despite

Question 13: She was very badly depressed after the car accident. Now she is beginning to think that there could be light at the end of the.......

A. tunnel                 B. subway                         C. passage             D. journey

Question 14: The government must......strong measures against crime.

A. be seen be taking                    B. see to be taking  C. be seen to be taking            D. seen to take

Q 15: Although she would have preferred to carry on working, my mum.....her career in order to have children.

A. devoted              B. abolished                      C. repealed                       D. sacrificed

Question 16: A number of landslides have ....... Nepal since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 25th April which killed more than 8,000 people and injured many more.

A. stroke                           B. caused                                   C. hit                                 D. blown

Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others.

Question 17: A. compliment   B. excellent                  C. nominate            D. distinguish

Question 18: A. remember      B. quality                    C. occasion                       D. terrific

Question 19: A. world-class     B. wheelchair             C. firewood            D. blackmail

Question 20: A. volunteer       B. referee                   C.  spiritual             D. recommend