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Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others of the group

1. A. applicant
B. appliance
C. delicate
D. surgery
2. A. interfere
B. prevent
C. spectator
D. experiment
3. A. actually
B. accurate
C. satellite
D. symbolic
4. A. malaria
B. annoyance
C. paradise
D. uneasiness
5. A. Spanish
B. explorer
C. century
D. origin
Choose the option that best fits the blank of the sentence
6. Armed terrorists are reported to have _____ the Embassy.
A. taken up
B. taken to
C. taken over
D. taken into
7. I should be most grateful if you would give me a ______ of this new typewriter.
A. demonstration
B. display
C. showing
D. manifestation
8. How many people do you think his car would ______ ?
A. occupy
B. hold
C. fit
D. load
9. His mothers illmess had placed him under a considerable _______
A. tension
B> strain
C. stress
D. worry
10. The other transport unions gave the railway workers their ______
A. agreement
B. solidarity
C. backing
D. alliance
11. In court she was _____ to have stolen company money.
A. claimed
B. accused
C. charged
D. alleged
12. The tea cup was ight on the ______ of the table and could have been knocked off at any moment.
A. edge
B. border
C. contour
D. margin
13. While I was eating cherries, I accidentally swallow a _______
A. stone
B. pup
C. seed
D. nut
14. Everything on the menu looked very appetizing, but in the end we decide to ______ the salmon in
Champagne sauce.
A. choose from
B. pick up
C. opt for
D. call for
15. Fertilizers are ______ to the field after the cops have been planted
A. added
B. used
C. enriched
D. applied
16. A. Her hair was wet from the ______ tossed up by the huge waves.
A. foam
B. lather
C. spray
D. surft
17. People didnt want to buy the new three wheeled scooter and so it sank without _____
A. sight
B. sign
C. trace
D. trend
18. Her eyes are her best ______
A. feature
B. aspect
C. trait
D. characteristic
19. The children ______ at the ease with which the circus acrobats perform their routine.
A. amazed
B. marveled
C. surprised
D. baffled
20. They have sent Bob to _______ prison for hutting ______ policeman on ______ dead. Ill go to ______
prison tomorrow to bring him some clothes
A. 0/a/his/0
B. a/a/the/the
C. the/the/0/the
D. 0/a/the/the
21. Hardly _______ building _______ it began to rain
A. we had left/when B. had we left/when C. had we left/that
D. did we leave /than
22. Manufacturers often sacrifice quality _______
A. for the large profit margin
B. in place of earning more money
C. to gain more quantities of money

D. and instead earn a bigger amount of profit


23. With the help of German experts, the factory produced ______ cars in 1993 as the year before
A. as twice many
B. as many as twice C. as twice as many D. twice as many
24. His advice that it _____ at once is reasonable
A. should do
B. be done
C. needs to be done D. is done
25. But for his help, I ______
A. should not have succeeded
B. had not succeeded
C. did not succeed
D. havent succeeded
26. Why are you so upset? She _______ the dates She ______ about our meeting. She fixed the day and
time herself.
A. could have mixed up/might not have forgotten
B. many have mixed up/couldnt have
forgotten
C. is able to mix up/cant forgotten
D. must mix up/was not able to forget
27. They ______ to build a new Mc Donals I several days and _______ it by the end of the year.
A. will start/will finish
B. are starting/will have finished
C. start/will be finishing
D. start/are finishing
28. She wishes her father ______ it.
A. hadnt known
B. didnt know
C. hasnt known
D. wouldnt have known
29. Dont jump _______ conclusions. We dont yet know all the relevant facts.
A. into
B. up
C. to
D. for
30. We are planning a holiday in Thailand when my husband retires but I dont know whether itll really come
_______
A. on
B. out
C. off
D. round
31. She is taller than men ______ a head.
A. by
B. to
C. with
D> by
32. How exactly did you set ______ training the dogs to work well together.
A. up
B. to
C. about
D. out
33. He was ______ a few hours of his death
A. within
B. in
C. after
D. before
34. Mary: Good morning, could I speak to Mr. Phillips, please?
A. Hes in a meeting. Can I take a message?
B. Probably by Monday next week.
C. I will have to ask the person you want to ring first
D. Certainly, Would two oclock be OK
35. Mary; Sorry, do I know you??
John: ______
A. Fine thanks and you?
B. How do you do?
C. Weve met before, havent we?
D. hi! Havent seen you for ages

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