Exercise 1: Choose the words whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.
1. A. special B. celebrate C. excited D. center
2. A. vegetable B. table C. black D. terrible
3. A. positive B. negative C. tug D. future
4. A. puppet B. funny C. schedule D. sunny
5. A. town B. flowers C. show D. cow
6. A. live B. dishes C. ideas D. milk
7. A. like B. tick C. kitchen D. dinner
8. A. east B. clean C. seat D. great
9. A. spider B. slim C. kind D. striped
10. A kitchen B. idea C.dinner D. village
11. A. black B. vegetable C. blanket D. blue
12. A. sandwich B. salad C. later D. jacket
13. A. herbs B. check C. lemon D. egg
14. A. talent B. lantern C. fashion D. always
15. A. novel B. soccer C. role D. comic