Question 4: (Stress of three/four-syllable words)

1. A. stimulate                      B. sacrifice                    C. devastate                  D. determine

2. A. develop                        B. reunite                       C. understand               D. recommend

3. A. contrary                       B. graduate                    C. document                  D. attendance

4. A. important                     B. impatient                   C. uncertain                  D. arrogant

5. A. occasion                      B. cinema                       C. emphasis                   D. calendar

6. A. quality                          B. solution                     C. compliment              D. energy

7. A. example                       B. happiness                  C. advantage                 D. disaster

8. A. commercial                 B. disaster                      C. animal                       D. extinction

9. A. national                        B. beautiful                    C. specific                     D. humorous

10. A. society                       B. sympathy                  C. quality                       D. principle

11. A. argument                   B. conference                C. condition                  D. secretary

12. A. cigarette                     B. engineer                    C. magazine                  D. bicycle

13. A. literature                    B. business                    C. mosquito                   D. document

14. A. inventor                     B. physicist                    C. president                   D. property

15. A. architect                    B. electric                      C. mineral                      D. luxury

1. My teacher asked me .............. English

    A. improve                       B. improving             C. improved             D. to improve

   2. My aunt and uncle are going to Laos .............. February

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

   3. He soon died of a ................. heart

   A. break                             B. broke                    C. to break               D. broken

   4. We ............. our reports two weeks ago.

   A. receive                          B. received               C. receiving              D. to receive

   5. I’m very sorry. I know I behaved ......................

   A. bad                                 B. good                      C. well                       D. badly

   6. My father ........... on a farm when he was a young boy

   A. use to living                 B. use to live           C. used to live          D. used to living

   7. Can you show me the ........... to the nearest bank ?

   A. waying                         B. to way                   C. ways                      D. way

   8. What can I do ............. you ?

   A. for                                  B. in                            C. from                      D. of

   9.Lan  is  …………………..   lift this box.

   A.enough strong to         B. enough strong  for   C. strong enough to    D. strong enough  for

   10. The earth ……………….. around the sun.

   A. moves                            B. is moving             C. moved                              D. will move

1. We would like to see your ............................. in learning English this semester. 

 A. improve B. improvement     C. improvably D. improvable

2. If you want to .................................. your English, we can help you.

A. improve B. improvement     C. improvably D. improvable

3.  He is very ................................. in taking care of animals.

A. experience B. inexperienced     C. experiences D. experienced

4. How can we make the subject more ................................... to young people?

A. interestingly B. interested    C. interesting D. uninteresting

5. He is a strict…………………………….….. 

A. examine B. examination     C. examinee D. examiner

6. I like watching the news because it is very ……………..………………………….

A. information B. informing     C. informative D. inform

7. The basement room is …………………………..from outside

8. Please give us all of your …………………………….

A. response B. responses      C. respond D. responsive

9. This remote area isn’t easily ...................................by bicycle.

A. access B. accessive     C. inaccessive D. accessed

10. The Internet has ...................................developed nowadays. (

A. increased B. increasing     C. increasingly D. increase

1.                 A. compare                   B. improve                     C. pollute              D. extra

2.                A decide                       B. combine                     C. apply                D. happen

3.                 A. vision                        B. tradition                      C. different            D. government

4.                 A. certain                      B. couple                        C. design               D. equal

5.                 A. encourage                B. volunteer                   C. pollution          D. develop

6.                 A. attend                        B. option                          C. percent             D. become

7.                 A. cinema                       B. position                       C. family                         D. popular

1. A. forest                            B. dislike                   C. building                D. mountain

2. A. provide                         B. improve                C. contain                  D. borrow

3. A. anniversary                  B. destination           C. direction               D. education

4. A. attraction                     B. collection             C. musician               D. musical

5. A. souvenir                       B. uniform                 C. disappear              D. overseas

Question 6. If the weather _______, we won’t have a picnic.

      A. doesn't improve                                                            B. didn’t improve          

      C. hadn’t improved                                                           D. don’t improve

Question 7. He was unqualified and totally _______.

      A. inexperience                           B. inexperienced            C. experience                 D. experienced

Question 8. We use a ____ to break up the earth and plant the seeds.

      A. car                                         B. plough                       C. dog                           D.  land

Question 9. Every passenger is required to ____ their seatbelt when they are on board.

      A. fasten                                     B. take                           C. leave                         D.  hold

Question 10. _____ class allows students to acquire knowledge about living things.

      A. Geography                             B. Chemistry                  C. Biology                      D.  History

Question 11. I _____ some good purchases of clothes when I was in town.

      A. made                                      B. did                            C. took                          D.  got

Question 12. My daughter is learning to play _______ violin at _______ school.

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

Question 13. Millions of people in the world are suffering famine ______ the war or the Covid-19 pandemic.

      A. because                                  B. in spite of                  C. because of                 D.  although

Question 14. He didn’t stop his car ___________ the traffic light turned red.

      A. because                                  B. in spite of                   C. because of                 D. although
Question 15. Mr. Vy is a farmer, ________?

      A. is he                                       B. isn’t he                      C. doesn’t he     D.  can’t he

Question 16. She didn’t join our programme ______ she had to take a summer course at the college.

      A. despite                                   B. because of                 C. because                     D.  although
Question 17. That language center has a wide variety of subjects for me to choose,_______?

      A. are they                                  B. isn’t it                        C. doesn’t it                   D.  didn’t they

Question 18. They arrived _______ that train station late because their taxi had broken _______.

      A. at / down                                B. for / off                      C. on / over                    D.  on / up

Question 19. His pronunciation causes me a lot of ________.

     A. difficulties                               B. difficult                      C. difficulty                     D.  difficultly

Question 20. She was the first in her family to enjoy the privilege of a university ________.

      A. educated                                B. educational                C. educating                   D.  education

Question 21. “_____ your seatbelts, please!” – the air-hostess told the passengers.

      A. Shorten                                  B. Lengthen                   C. Blacken                     D.  Fasten

Question 22. Rose’s manager is punctual all the time. He _______ late for any workshops.

      A. is always                                 B. sometimes is              C. is never                      D.  often is

Question 23. If we ________ the environment clean, we wouldn’t get sick easily.

      A. keep                                       B. kept                          C. are keeping                D.  had kept