Question

I. Choose the words whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

1.   A. airports                         B. suitcases                 C. things                      D. calculators

2.   A. chemist                         B. chicken                   C. church                     D. changeable

3.   A. university                     B. unique                     C. united                     D. undo

4.   A. faithful                         B. fairy                        C. failure                     D. fainted

5.   A. sun                                B. sure                         C. success                    D. sort

6. A. affect                              B. agency                    C. aquatic                    D. accommodation

7. A. measure              B. illustrate                  C. source                     D. awesome

8. A. contaminate                    B. contaminant            C. pollutant                 D. poison

9. A. shake                              B. scatter                     C. trap             D. collapse

10. A. healthy             B. thermal                   C. northern                  D. earth

11. A. interact             B. landline                   C. chat             D. verbal

12. A. weight              B. height                     C. eight                       D. vein

13. A. accurate                        B. accept                     C. accident                  D. success

14. A. rubbish             B. cultural                   C. thunder                   D. furious

15. A. diving               B. discover                  C. discipline                D. divide

16. A. cotton               B. bottle                      C. cold                        D. common

17. A. shout                            B. sugar                       C. share                       D. surgery

18. A. valentine                       B. imagine                   C. discipline                D. magazine

19. A. drummer                       B. future                      C. number                   D. umbrella

20. A. host                              B. cost             C. post             D. most

21. A. other                             B. leather                     C. wealthy                   D. brother

22. A. television                      B. elephant                  C. section                    D. Swedish

23. A. explain              B. current                    C. desire                      D. electric

24. A. threaten                        B. thread                     C. seat             D. bread

25. A. deaf                              B. leaf             C. meat                        D. heat

26. A. allow                            B. follow                     C. yellow                     D. fellow

27. A. exhaust             B. hour                        C. honest                     D. house

28. A. mood                            B. moon                      C. soon                        D. good

29. A. Dutch               B. Russian                   C. just              D. use

30. A. descent             B. dissent                    C. discontent   D. continent

Answer 1

1B 2A 3D 4B 5B 6B 7A 8A 9A 10C 11D 12D 13C 14D 15A 16B 17D 18A 19B 20B 21C 22D  23B 24C 25A 26A 27D 28D 29D 30D