UNIT 2
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each of the following questions.
1. A. mended B. arrested C. planted D. jumped
2. A. played B. cooked C. talked D. laughed
3. A. appeared B. agreed C. coughed D. loved
4. A. hanged B. earned C. noted D. cleaned
5. A. helped B. walked C. missed D. rained
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
6. A. culture B. sacrifice C. approaching D. formal
7. A. happy B. confide C. protect D. polite
8. A. believe B. marriage C. response D. maintain
9. A. summary B. different C. physical D. decision
10. A. attractiveness B. traditional C. generation D. American
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
11. Many young people have objected to _______ marriage, which is decided by the parents of the bride and groom.
A. agreed B. shared C. contractual D. sacrificed
12. It will take more or less a month to prepare for the wedding.
A. approximately B. generally C. frankly D. simply
13. Some men think that it is unwise to confine ________ in their wives.
A. in B. to C. with D. on
14. London is home to people of many _______ cultures.
A. diverse b. diversity C. diversify D. diversification
15. John cannot make a _______ to get married to Mary or stay single until he can afford a house and a car.
A. decide B. decision C. decisive D. decisively
16. My mother used to be a woman of great _______, but now she gets old and looks pale.
A. beauty B. beautiful C. beautifully D. beautify
17. My father phoned me to say that he would come _______ home late.
A. a B. an C. the D. Ø
18. At last they divorced after ten years of _______ marriage.
A. a B. an C. the D. Ø
19. A curriculum that ignores ethnic tensions, racial antagonisms, cultural _______ and religious differences is pot relevant.
A. diversity B. contacts C. barriers D. levels
20. Some researchers have just _______ a survey of young people`s points of view on contractual marriage.
A. sent B. directed C. managed D. conducted
21. It is not easy to ________ our beauty when we get older and older.
A. develop B. maintain C. gain D. collect
22. All parents are _______ to at least try to behave in ways that will give their own children an important protection.
A. decided B. supposed C. followed D. rejected
23. It is thought that traditional marriage _______ are important basis of limiting divorce rates.
A. appearances B. records C. responses D. values
24. Affected by the Western cultures, Vietnamese young people`s attitudes _______ love and marriage have dramatically changed.
A. for B. with C. through D. towards
25. Sometimes she does not agree _______ her husband about child rearing but they soon find the solutions.
A. for B. on C. with D. of
26. The young are _______ more concerned with physical attractiveness than elderly people.
A. much B. as C. many D. as much as
27. Although they are twins, they have almost the same appearance but they are seldom in _______.
A. agree B. agreeable C. agreement D. agreeably
28. The more _______ and positive you look, the better you will feel.
A. confide B. confident C. confidently D. confidence
29. My parents will have