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Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

melodramatic?

  • A. MELodramatic
  • B. meLOdramatic
  • C. meloDRAmatic
  • D. melodraMAtic
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23

Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

photography?

  • A. phoTOgraphy
  • B. PHOtography
  • C. photoGRAphy
  • D. photograPHY
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24

Choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

xenophobia?

  • A. XEnophobia
  • B. xeNOphobia
  • C. xenoPHObia
  • D. xenophoBIA
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25

Choose the word that has a stress pattern on the first syllables.

  • A. July
  • B. literate
  • C. august
  • D. oesophagus
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26

Choose the word that has a stress pattern on the first syllables.

  • A. librarian
  • B. immunize
  • C. militia
  • D. continuous
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27

Choose the word that has a stress pattern on the first syllables.

  • A. bachelor
  • B. forget
  • C. cement
  • D. ago
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28

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.

  • A. release
  • B. exit
  • C. exchange
  • D. explode
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29

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.

  • A. original
  • B. deplorable
  • C. ability
  • D. revolution
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30

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others.

  • A. distress
  • B. control
  • C. bottom
  • D. report
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31

Choose the option that best has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

judge?

  • A. measure
  • B. general
  • C. pressure
  • D. grace
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32

Choose the option that best has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

chateau?

  • A. chart
  • B. church
  • C. champagne
  • D. chemical
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33

Choose the option that best has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

thatch?

  • A. clothing
  • B. mother
  • C. then
  • D. method
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34

Choose the option that best has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

Waist?

  • A. fete
  • B. says
  • C. plait
  • D. breakfast
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35

Choose the option that best has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

Shirt?

  • A. shut
  • B. shade
  • C. surf
  • D. shed
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36

Choose the option that best has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined?

Cooled

  • A. cold
  • B. could
  • C. court
  • D. you
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37

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

He …….. the picture on the table?

  • A. laid
  • B. lay
  • C. lied
  • D. lain
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38

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

By the end of this month, …… for years in this school?

  • A. I will study
  • B. I will have been studying
  • C. I am studying
  • D. I had been studying
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39

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

Uncle Ochai now has enough money to complete his ……… building?

  • A. two storey
  • B. two-storeyed
  • C. two-story
  • D. two storeyed
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40

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

They have had their debt written …… by their creditors?

  • A. down
  • B. on
  • C. up
  • D. off
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41

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

You don’t like Mathematics, …… you?

  • A. do
  • B. don't
  • C. can't
  • D. can
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42

Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

The condition of the room was so …..so i went outside?

  • A. intolerant
  • B. intolerable
  • C. inconstant
  • D. invariable
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