Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions. 

1.     A. advises B. raises          C. devises        D. goes 

2.     A. played B. worked       C. ruled           D. cried 

3.     A. hour      B. honest         C. honor          D. host 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. 

4.              A. 'property      B. 'language     C. 'reasonable D. pos'session 

5.              A. edu'cation    B. into'nation   C. de'velopment           D. popu'lation 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 

6.              Food _______ directly to the market by trucks. 

A.             delivered         B. deliver        C. can be delivered     D. delivers 

7.              “Where do you buy this book?”, said Mary to John. 

A.             Mary asked John where did he buy that book. 

B.               Mary asked John where he buy that book. 

C.               Mary asked John where he bought that book. 

D.               Mary asked John where he bought this book. 

8.              The woman wonders _______ doing well at school. 

9.              The boy _______ in the accident was taken to hospital. 

A.             injures B. injured        C. injuring       D. injure 

10.           I read about the child _______ life was saved by her pet dog. 

A.             whom B. who             C. whose         D. her 

11.           When the police _______, the thief _______. 

A.             came/ left         B. had come/had left   C. had come/left         D. came/had left 

12.           We _______ any problem up to now. 

A.             do not have     B. will not have           C. hadn’t         D. have not had 

13.           On _______ way to the town, there is _______ beautiful wood. 

A.             a / the B. Ø / Ø           C. the / a          D. Ø / the 

14.           I’m looking forward _______ receiving your email soon. 

A.             at         B. to    C. in    D. for 

15.  We decided to break _______ tradition and not to spend Christmas with out family. 

A.             up        B. through       C. in    D. with 

16.           We are not allowed _______ jeans school. 

A.             wear    B. to wear        C. wearing       D. worn 

17.  The orator stopped _______ He felt thirsty so he stopped _______ some water. 

A.             to talk/having B. talking/to have       C. talking/having        D. to talk/to have 

18.           Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis are natural _______. 

A.             environments B. temperatures           C. disasters      D. populations 

19.           Don’t talk about that in my mother’s _______.

A.             present             B. presence     C. presentation            D. presenter 

20.           The children all have very different _______. 

A.             personalities    B. personal      C. personalize D. person

21.           School uniform is compulsory in most of Vietnamese schools. 

A.             depended         B. required      C. divided       D. paid 

22.           Chemical wastes from factories are _____ that cause serious damage to species habitats. 

A.             pollutes           B. pollutants    C. pollutions   D. polluters 

23.           50,000 people attended the opening Ceremony of the 15^th Asian Games with more than billion television _______. 

A.             listeners           B. speakers      C. viewers       D. readers 

24.           Doctors say that smoking and drinking can both _______ your health. 

A.             destroy            B. improve      C. ruin             D. damage 

25.           The human skin forms _______ against the action of physical, chemical, and bacterial agents on the deeper tissues. 

26.           – “John had an accident. He’s been in hospital for 5 days.” 

– “________________.”

A.             Poor it      B. Poor him     C. How terrific!          D. Oh, is he? 

27.           Peter: “Let’s go camping.”

Mary: “____________.” 

28.           The Williams have three sons, _______ have become lawyers. 

A.             all of whom     B. all of them C. they all        D. of whom all 

29.           In the United States _______ the states but Hawaii is an island. 

A.             none of            B. neither of    C. all of           D. no of

30.           _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many industries hesitate to adopt them. 

A.             Because           B. Although    C. However     D. On account of 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the best answer that has closet meaning to the given one. 

31.           They will finish the work next week. 

A.             The work will be finish next week. 

B.             The work will be finishing next week. 

C.             The work will finish next week. 

D.             The work will be finished next week. 

32.           No one in team can play better than John. 

A.             John plays well but the others play better. 

B.             John as well as other players of the tea, plays very well. 

C.             Everyone in the team, but John, plays very well. 

D.             John is the best player of the team. 

33.           She is fool that she can’t solve the problem. 

She is too fool to solve the problem

Đáp án C

bride  /braɪd/        

confide        /kənˈfaɪd/   

determine    /diˈtɛrmin/  

oblige          /əˈblaɪʤ/

Đáp án A

southern  /ˈsʌðərn/        

athlete         /ˈæˌθlit/      

healthy          /ˈhɛlθi/      

enthusiast  /ɛnˈθuziˌæst/ 

Đáp án C

stopped  /stɑpt/   

cooked          /kʊkt/       

crooked  /krʊkid/

pushed  /pʊʃt/

Đáp án B

earthquakes          /ˈɜrθˌkweɪks/        

countries     /ˈkʌntriz/    

epidemics    /ˌɛpəˈdɛmɪks/       

delegates     /ˈdɛləˌgeɪts

Đáp án A

humour /’hjumər/          

honest         /ˈɑnəst/       

honour        / ˈɑnər /      

hour  /ˈaʊər/

  Đáp án là D. Từ student có phần gạch chân được phát âm là /ju:/, các từ còn lại có phần gạch chân được phát âm là /A

2.        Đáp án là B. Theo quy tắc đọc đuôi -s/-es, từ decides có phần gạch chân được phát âm là /z/, các từ còn lại có phần gạch chân được phát âm là /s/

   Đáp án là D. Theo quy tắc đọc đuôi -ed, từ lived có _ phần gạch chân được phát âm là /d/, các từ còn lại có phần gạch chân được phát âm là /t/