MINI TEST 16

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

                                           

• A. income    

• B. idea   

•     C. item

•      D. icecream

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

                      

• A. holiday

•   B. honest               

•      C. height        

•    D. hobby

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

                                            

•        A. number      

•    B. assure     

• C. travel      

•    D. rapid

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

  

• A. destruction

•   B. agriculture

•    C. dictionary

•        D. supervisor

Luggage may be placed here ______ the owner’s risk.

                                              

•    A. at          

•         B. by         

•        C. under        

•        D. with

Hundreds of workers have been ______ due to financial problems at the factory.

                                        

•    A. sacked     

•        B. retired     

•             C. resigned

•       D. made redundant

Old people like the slow ______ of life in the countryside.

                                                              

•    A. step         

• B. speed     

• C. space    

•      D. pace

I clearly remember _______ to the nearby zoo when I was small.

                                   

•    A. being taken

•     B. to be taken     

• C. to be taking

•   D. taking

John is feeling ______ because he hasn’t had enough sleep recently.

                                           

•    A. irritate   

•        B. irritation      

•         C. irritably

•     D. irritable

Many different kinds of food sold today have _______ flavouring added to them.

                          

•    A. fake             

•       B. artificial      

•              C. wrong       

•           D. false