Task 2: Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern

1.      A. vehicle                    B. traffic                      C. distance                   D. direction

2.      A. roundabout             B. motorbike               C. police                      D. bicycle

3.      A. improve                  B. develop                   C. different                  D. enormous

4.      A. atmosphere             B. pollution                 C. nature                      D. picture

5.      A. seriously                 B. personally               C. carefully                  D. correctly

6.      A. characteristic           B. economic                C. futuristic                  D. economical

7.      A. congestion              B. helmet                     C. railway                    D. accident

8.      A. foreigner                 B. development           C. happen                    D. plentiful

Task 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. 

1.      A. surface                    B. classmate                C. grade                       D. place

2.      A. railway                   B. mail                         C. animation                D. sail

3.      A. pay                         B. later                         C. say                          D. hall

4.      A. head                        B. steak                       C. dead                        D. meant

5.      A. female                     B. pancake                  C. character                 D. nation

Task 9: Choose the correct answer.

Happy memories of my childhood

I always count myself lucky that I spent my childhood with my parents in the countryside. When I was small, our family (1) ________ in a small bungalow near a river. My brother and I used to (2) ________ swimming after school until my mother told us to come back. Our school was not far (3) ________ our house, so we walked to school every day. There didn’t (4) ________ as many traffic (5) ________ there is today, so my parents (6) ________ worry much about traffic accident. In the past, there (7) ________ use to be many forms of entertainment such as TV or computer, so our family spent many hours with each other. Sometimes, my brother and I (8) ________ taken to our grandparents’ house to visit them. Those memories are unforgettable.