I.    Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

1.   A. wipe                       B. alive                        C. micro                      D. link

2.   A. cleaner                    B. threat                      C. ahead                      D. instead

3.   A. breathe                   B. ethane                     C. thank                      D. healthy

4.   A. choose                    B. moon                      C. food                        D. look

5.   A. burden                    B. survive                    C. curtain                    D. furnish

6.   A. camel                      B. sandy                      C. travel                      D. stable

7.   A. dune                       B. hummock                C. scrublands              D. gun

8.   A. basic                       B. desert                      C. president                 D. season

9.   A. separate                  B. network                  C. dessert                    D. crest

10. A. stretches                 B. slopes                      C. ranges                     D. faces

II.  Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern.

1.   A. education               B. facility                    C. development           D. intelligence

2.   A. metropolitan           B. organization            C. university                D. multicultural

3.   A. fascinate                 B. restaurant                C. expensive                D. difference

4.   A. feature                    B. ancient                    C. drawback                D. conduct

5.   A. fabulous                 B. pagoda                    C. determine               D. convenient

B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I.    Choose the best one (A, B, C or D) to complete the sentence.

1.   Villagers are more kind, friendly and warm-hearted than city                 .

      A. dwellers                  B. foreigners               C. beginners                D. movers

2.   You can see the                  of the suburbs in Ho Chi Minh City with many apartment buildings, supermarkets, shopping centres, and schools.

      A. urban area               B. convenience            C. urban sprawl           D. living condition

3.   Dong Khoi Street is the main shopping street in the                     of downtown in Ho Chi Minh City.

      A. mind                       B. heart                       C. head                        D. spot

4.   It is considered that life in a city is wonderful and                      .

      A. funny                      B. boring                     C. enjoyable                D. helpful

5.   No city in America has                  monuments and museums into one area as Washington, DC.

      A. as much                  B. such many              C. as many                  D. a few

6.   My passport                       last month, so I will have to get a new one.

      A. elapsed                   B. expired                   C. ended                     D. terminated

7.   The department is also deeply                   in various improvement schemes.

      A. connected               B. entailed                   C. involved                 D. implied

8.   His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any                       of it at all.

      A. interpretation          B. meaning                  C. intelligibility           D. sense

9.   The main attraction of the job was that it offered the                   to do the research.

      A. possibility               B. proposal                  C. opportunity             D. prospect

10. I wish you’d tell me what I                        do in this difficult situation.

      A. shall                        B. would                     C. should                     D. ought

11. A competitor may submit any number of entries                                     , each one is accompanied by a packet top.

      A. supposing               B. notwithstanding     C. assuredly                D. provided

12. They always kept on good             with their next-door neighbours for the children’s sake.

      A. friendship               B. relations                  C. will                         D. terms

13. He earns his living by                    old paintings.

      A. reviving                  B. restoring                 C. reforming                D. replenishing

14. Hotel rooms must be                      by noon, but luggage may be left with the porter.

      A. vacated                   B. evacuated               C. abandoned              D. left

15. The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a              .

      A. rarity                       B. minority                  C. scarcity                   D. minimum

 I    Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

      1.   A. breath                     B. breathe                    C. thank                      D. threat

      2.   A. advantage               B. advertise                 C. adventure               D. addition

      3.   A. decided                  B. hatred                     C. sacred                     D. warned

      4.   A. remark                    B. postcard                  C. drunkard                 D. discard

      5.   A. houses                    B. places                      C. horses                     D. faces

I. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) which has a different sound in the underlined part

1. A. with        B. breathe                 C. they                      D. truth

2. A. show       B. snow                     C. now                      D. slow

3. A. care         B. share                     C. prepare                 D. career

4. A. fear         B. near                      C. hear                      D. bear

5. A. like          B. bit                         C. bite                       D. kind

I.                   Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part

1.      A. enjoys                           B. prepares                      C. attends                      D. reports

2.      A. festival                         B. together                       C. elephant                    D. telephone

3.      A. Easter                           B. ready                            C. season                        D. teacher

4.      A. Halloween                  B. water                            C. wedding                     D. week

5.      A. childhood                    B. Christmas                    C. chocolate                   D. challenge

I. Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part

1.        A. purpose          B. bottle                     C. collect                   D. second

2.        A. heard              B. pearl                      C. heart                      D. earth

3.        A. button            B. circus                    C. suggest                  D. future

I. Choose the words that have the different stress from the others

4.solution              B. increasing             C. recommend    

D.abundant

5.develop               B. enormous              C. improvement

D. different

III. Give the correct form of the words given to complete the sentences.

6.        Solar energy is renewable, …………………….and clean. (PLENTY)

7.        More renewable energy sources will be used to solve the problem of ………. (POLLUTE)

8.        The …………….of wind turbines will be completed by next Friday. (INSTALL)

9.        Tom rode his bike ………………….…and had an accident. (CARE)

10.    Thomas Edison is one of the greatest ………………….… in history. (INVENT)

I.          Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part

1. A. erupt                                B. bury                                     C. mudslide                                  D. public

2. A. disaster                             B. severe                                  C. touchscreen                              D. personal