NCE 9 - VOCABULARY TEST 1 - TOPIC: Friendship

Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others.

• a. generous

• b. suspicious

• c. constancy

• d. sympathy

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently to the others.

• a. condition

• b. suggestion

• c. option

• d. relation

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently to the others.

• a. trust

• b. mutual

• c. number

• d. uncertain

Does he tell you how he is getting ______ his new friends?

• a. on with

• b. on of

• c. away with

• d. out of

There is no truth in the ______ that Margaret has lost her job.

• a. rumour

• b. case

• c. instance

• d. news

Friendship is a two-side ______; it lives by give-and-take.

• a. affair

• b. event

• c. way

• d. aspect

Jen had confided her secret ______ Mark; but he betrayed her trust.

• a. with

• b. to

• c. on

• d. for

Answer explanation

confide something TO someone (v: tiết lộ, tâm sự điều gì cho ai đó

It was so relaxing to be ________ old friends.

• a. in

• b. between

• c. among 

• d. around

Answer explanation

among + 1 N số nhiều

between A and B

They were extremely ______ to my plight.

• a. sympathized

• b. sympathetic

• c. sympathy

• d. sympathetieal

The President expressed his deep sorrow over the bombing deaths.

• a. sadness

• b. anxiety

• c. disappointment

• d. interest