UNIT 7 - CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1.A. bridesmaid
B. season
C. sandwich
D. proposal

2.A. complication
B. custom
C. community
D. communicate

3.A. ritual
B. Russia
C. social
D. nation

4.A. mirror
B. sticky
C. gift
D. bride

5.A. ceremony
B. careful
C. standard
D. servive

6.A. engagement
B. changeable
C. prestigious
D. superstitious

7.A. mystery
B. myself
C. myriad
D. myth

8.A. superstition
B. stocking
C. occasion
D. asleep

9.A. scatter
B. value
C. adult
D. vary

10.A. chocolate
B. characteristic
C. children
D. change

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from that of the others
1.A. alert
B. alter
C. altar
D. album

2.A. ancestor
B. article
C. assignment
D. additive

3.A. decent
B. descent
C. detect
D. debate

4.A. venture
B. object
C. magpie
D. fortune

5.A. deplete
B. balloon
C. arrange
D. impact

6.A. prefer
B. present
C. prepare
D. pretend

7.A. react
B. remain
C. rebel
D. refuse

8.A. image
B. immigrate
C. imitate
D. import

9.A. percent
B. perfect
C. perform
D. perhaps

10.A. confident
B. concent
C.contrast
D. constant

Choose the best answers to complete the sentences :
1. I’m kind of superstitious .............. the number 13.
A. of
B. about
C. with
D. at

2. “ “ in the sentence below is not correct.
I’m afraid the weather is getting hotter and hottest
A B C D
3. Hair color is one of ......................... characteristics to be used in identifying people
A. the most obviously
B. most obvious
C. obviously the most
D. the most obvious

4. The gap between the sides is not ....................... it was.
A. as wide as
B. the wider as
C. the widest as
D. wide than

5. He is not .............................. he used to be
A. such good as a player as
B. such a good player as
C. so good as a teacher
D. as a teacher as good

6. Brian has been working ................... since he was promoted
A. much harder
B. as harder
C. more hardly
D. far hardly

7. Unfortunately, her illness was ............................ we thought
A. the seriousest
B. the most serious
C. more seriouc than
D. seriouser than

8. In households where the father works full time and the mother works part time or not at all, the distribution of labor when it comes to childcare and housekeeping is ...........................
A. as balanced
B. more balanced
C. less balanced
D. least balanced

9. Division of the labor between mothers and fathers is .................. regarding playing or doing activities with children.
A. as even as
B. more even
C. most even
D. more even

10. Kate is learning to play .................... piano
A. the
B. a
C. (
D. some

11. The club has members from many different cultural .......................
A. nations
B. features
C. manners
D. backgrounds

12. It is a .......................... belief that broken mirrors will bring bad luck.
A. usual
B. normal
C. similar
D. common

13. Thank you. That was ...................... very nice lunch
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. (

14. Halley was excited to be his friend’s .................... in his wedding.
A. close man
B. closest man
C. best man
D. better man

15. Get off the bus .............................. it stops
A. so quick as
B. so fast as
C. so soon as
D. as soon as

16. After ....................... lunch, we went for a walk by ..................... sea
A. the / the
B. ( / (
C. ( / the
D. the / (