TESTS ON STRESS Your free time may be saved if these tests are found useful to your students. Ngô Đình Bảo Thoa Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words. TEST 1. 1. A. certificate B. manufacture C. entertainment D. obligation 2. A. confident B. calculus C. specific D. precedent 3. A. acrobat B. apprentice C. average D. catalogue 4. A. complicated B. demonstrate C. communism D. convenient 5. A. experience B. festival C. fascinated D. energy 6. A. moreover B. memorial C. Olympic D. orphanage 7. A. javelin B. interesting C. material D. musical 8. A. motorcycle B. furniture C. difficult D. detective 9. A. conference B. Canada C. magnitude D. Argentina 10. A. librarian B. respectable C. Internet D. victorious TEST 2. 1. A. assistant B. decision C. redundant D. management 2. A. essential B. average C. promotion D. deliver 3. A. favourable B. evaluate C. democracy D. relationship 4. A. cafeteria B. laboratory C. university D. explanation 5. A. education B. compulsory C. technology D. intelligent 6. A. arrival B. reception C. prestigious D. literal 7. A. computer B. dependence C. obvious D. horizon 8. A. delicious B. generate C. confidence D. theory 9. A. company B. miracle C. atmosphere D. employment 10 . A. official B. recommend C. informal D. disturbance TEST 3. 1. A. coincide B. currency C. dictionary D. cultural 2. A. committee B. community C. creative D. definite 3. A. invigorate B. telegraph C. terminus D. primitive 4. A. Malaysia B. Myanmar C. Rumania D. Bulgaria 5. A. propaganda B. nationality C. ordinarily D. ingenuity 6. A. Parisian B. average C. generate D. punishment 7. A. instrument B. calendar C. curious D. commercial 8. A. potato B. policeman C. November D. cinema 9. A. occasional B. industrial C. information D. variety 10 A. contaminate B. attractive C. emphatic D. corporate Baûo Thoa 1 . TEST 4. 1. A. civilian B. bacteria C. bookbinder D. assembly 2. A. apartheid B. wonderful C. universe D. principal 3. A. virtually B. tobacco C. statesmanship D. weightlessness 4. A. sincerely B. signature C. synthetic D. productive 5. A. architecture B. alphabetical C. opportunity D. international 6. A. individual B. engineering C. remarkable D. disadvantage 7. A. competition B. absolutely C. mathematic D. advantageous 8. A. patriotic B. racialism C. federation D. Japanese 9. A. associate B. marathon C. clarify D. government 10 . A. colonial B. professor C. inhabitant D. colony TEST 5. 1. A. funeral B. Canadian C. puported C. puported 2. A. supervisor B. investigate C. untreatable C. untreatable 3. A. technological B. personality C. representative C. representative 4. A. caterpillar B. exceeding C. existence C. existence 5. A. picturesque B. revelation C. humanitarian C. humanitarian 6. A. refugee B. impudence C. mountaineer C. mountaineer 7. A. devilish B. implicature C. glorify C. glorify 8. A. abnormality B. photography C. proverbial C. proverbial 9. A. understand B. distinguish C. usherette C. usherette 10 . A. innovative B. automate C. womankind C. womankind TEST 6. 1. A. prescription B. assassinate C. accuracy D. ambiguous 2. A. altitude B. beverage C. anecdote D. cathedral 3. A. December B. amplify C. elephant D. favourite 4. A. frequency B. gratitude C. equator D. habit 5. A. luxury B. cosmetics C. protection D. investment 6. A. economy B. accompany C. presentation D. successfully 7. A. romantic B. popular C. financial D. reduction 8. A. intimacy B. component C. customer D. prospect 9. A. accurate B. exercise C. computer D. delicate 10 . A. preservation B. perversity C. magnificent D. potentially Baûo Thoa 2 TEST 7. 1. A. vanilla B. graffiti C. indifferently D. ambiguous 2. A. satisfactory B. assassin C. centenary D. cathedral 3. A. interior B. shorthand C. delightful D. favourite 4. A. ecology B. outwit C. automatic D. habit 5. A. commando B. exceptional C. remove D. investment 6. A. excellent B. derelict C. discard D. successfully 7. A. tragedy B. parallel C. yesterday D. reduction 8. A. infer B. mountain C. eternal D. prospect 9. A. appetite B. opponent C. congregate D. delicate 10 . A. amazing B. shampoo C. accustom D. potentially TEST 8. 1. A. insist B. require C. assist D. glacier 2. A. apparent B. attendance C. ancestry D. alternative 3. A. abnormality B. continental C. mechanical D. occupation 4. A. costume B. besides C. complain D. around 5. A. outnumber B. organic C. singular D. Nigeria 6. A. perversity B. miraculous C. uncertainty D. miscellaneous 7. A. metropolis B. preliminary C. invaluable D. analyst 8. A. politics B. political C. mudslide D. television 9. A. tobacco B. tomorrow C. sulphuric D. certainty 10 . A. divine B. signature C. scholarship D. orator TEST 9. 1. A. cashier B. wealthy C. workshop D. turkey 2. A. sanitary B. salesmanship C. immense D. oxygen 3. A. botanist B. subsidiary C. authorship D. applicant 4. A. mechanized B. trapeze C. official D. subscription 5. A. across B. airmail C. giraffe D. banana 6. A. accept B. attractive C. almost D. because 7. A. crocodile B. anywhere C. cigarette D. comedy 8. A. activity B. envelope C. massacre D. hospital 9. A. photograph B. severance C. pantomime D. historian 10 . A. appointment B. bedtime C. borrow D. image Baûo Thoa 3 TEST 10. 1. A. material B. ornament C. remember D. together 2. A. stomachache B. stationer C. typewriter D. adoration 3. A. classmate B. cartoon C. disp D. canteen 4. A. Christmas B. depend C. electric D. emotion 5. A. etiquette B. earache C. empty D. deceased 6. A. forget B. fountain C. enormous D. headmaster 7. A. homesick B. highland C. sunbathe D. suggest 8. A. umbrella B. medicine C. mistletoe D. magazine 9. A. orchard B. peanut C. shadowy D. September 10 . A. sunburn B. engine C. eternal D. pianist TEST 11. 1. A. contemptuous B. thermometer C. available D. comfortable 2. A. curricular B. xenophobia C. historical D. grammatical 3. A. grammarian B. parameter C. personify D. repetitious 4. A. counteraction B. accompany C. statistical D. penultimate 5. A. abacus B. democrat C. paperback D. uranium 6. A. bookshelf B. commerce C. submariner D. arid 7. A. aquatic B. theology C. astound D. arithmetaic 8. A. lieutenant B. chancellor C. psychiatrist D. adversity 9. A. paranormal B. astronomy C. karaoke D. documentary 10 . A. insurgent B. Mongolia C. aquarium D. amnesty TEST 12. 1. A. metabolic B. perform C. administer D. majority 2. A. analytical B. examination C. resurrect D. agricultural 3. A. pharmacology B. biographical C. trigonometry D. enthusiastic 4. A. nonsensical B. opposition C. astonishment D. geometry 5. A. journalese B. preferential C. vegetarian D. penetrative 6. A. condominium B. generational C. sentimental D. parliamentarian 7. A. genetics B. limerick C. generic D. fanatic 8. A. grotesque B. chronology C. anthropoid D. imbroglio 9. A. deodorant B. emergency C. consultancy D. archetypal Baûo Thoa 4 10 . A. receptor B. reshuffle C. replicate D. engagement TEST 13. 1. A. absurdity B. particular C. polyphony D. politician 2. A. emulate B. Pacific C. newspaper D. imitate 3. A. memorable B. medicinal C. parole D. promotional 4. A. genuine B. fortunate C. genocide D. kangaroo 5. A. descendent B. Gregorian C. ornamental D. delivery 6. A. substantial B. stalactite C. alkali D. opportune 7. A. pneumonia B. cosmetics C. protection D. shareholder 8. A. academy B. neurologist C. beneficial D. eradicate 9. A. habitual B. approximate C. accommodate D. aspiration 10 . A. preference B. dramatic C. Arabia D. objective TEST 14. 1. A. architect B. temperament C. salary D. arena 2. A. ceremonial B. engineer C. altitude D. Portuguese 3. A. compulsory B. satellite C. gallery D. indicate 4. A. receive B. abound C. sustain D. foreign 5. A. considerate B. economic C. redundancy D. communicate 6. A. important B. consistent C. impotent D. assemble 7. A. protestant B. cultural C. character D. phenomenon 8. A. evidence B. persuasively C. interval D. custody 9. A. vulnerable B. participate C. intellect D. interviewer 10 . A. corporal B. heritage C. document D. apprehend TEST 15. 1. A. ultraviolet B. competitive C. photosynthesis D. pedophilia 2. A. advocate B. regime C. adverbial D. apostle 3. A. complication B. matrimonial C. contradiction D. academician 4. A. parody B. absent C. lemonade D. quantity 5. A. emperor B. inertia C. custody D. derelict 6. A. compliance B. encounter C. perpendicular D. continual 7. A. insolent B. aroma C. disaster D. adrenalin Baûo Thoa 5 8. A. otherwise B. clarify C. marigold D. injurious 9. A. infamous B. centenary C. calendar D. hyperhole 10 . A. military B. binary C. ecology D. poisonous NO ANSWER KEY IS NEEDED! Baûo Thoa 6 . TESTS ON STRESS Your free time may be saved if these tests are found useful to your students. Ngô Đình Bảo Thoa Choose the word that has stress pattern. Thoa Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words. TEST 1. 1. A. certificate B. manufacture C. entertainment D. obligation