WHICH SOUND IS DIFFERENT? These tests will certainly meet your expectation, my dear colleagues. Ngô Đình Bảo Thoa SOUNDS 1 1. A. earflap B. basic C. mechanic D. natural 2. A. delicate B. laser C. vapour D. nation 3. A. want B. what C. water D. quality 4. A. says B. plays C. pays D. days 5. A. volcanic B. relaxed C. sanguine D. vacancy 6. A. swamp B. scapel C. tolerate D. swan 7. A. access B. accident C. account D. attach 8. A. cottage B. aim C. Canadian D. classmate 9. A. fame B. change C. blame D. champagne 10 A. addition B. adventure C. advertise D. advantage SOUNDS 2 1. A. caress B. affair C. welfare D. careful 2. A. uncertainty B. mountain C. bargain D. Jamaican 3. A. disease B. seat C. instead D. beneath 4. A. orator B. intimate C. toward D. facilitate 5. A. papal B. wander C. patriotic D. bakery 6. A. wizard B. drunkard C. regard D. lizard 7. A. many B. contain C. again D. said 8. A. sausage B. gaudy C. automatic D. altogether 9. A. anchor B. anthem C. anxious D. Germany 10. A. apparent B. appalling C. apprehension D. Africa SOUNDS 3 1. A. luggage B. advantage C. storage D. cage 2. A. dishwasher B. majority C. memory D. trigonometry 3. A. obstacle B. matter C. organic D. tavern 4. A. quantity B. botanist C. promise D. watch 5. A. astronaut B. because C. cauliflower D. knowledge 6. A. aunt B. draught C. laugh D. fault 7. A. fountain B. captain C. retain D. chicken 8. A. cause B. draughtsman C. gorgeous D. slaughter 9. A. bartender B. architecture C. Bulgaria D. darkroom 10. A. path B. moral C. last D. past SOUNDS 4 1. A. apologise B. absorb C. arrive D. absence 2. A. daughter B. laughter C. launch D. lawn 3. A. catastrophe B. heartache C. master D. fasten 4. A. apricot B. change C. camera D. blame 5. A. national B. language C. happy D. plane 6. A. drama B. aroma C. apology D. parliament Bảo Thoa 1 7. A. dramatic B. celebrate C. academic D. eraze 8. A. grain B. place C. palace D. pace 9. A. admiral B. adventurous C. advertise D. adverb 10. A. purchase B. chase C. lace D. Spain SOUNDS 5 1. A. cabbage B. baggage C. labour D. handle 2. A. handshake B. vague C. maze D. lazy 3. A. quack B. smash C. village D. miraculous 4. A. target B. war C. quarter D. broad 5. A. lake B. agency C. alphabetical D. range 6. A. dart B. farther C. fast D. bathe 7. A. prayer B. spray C. ray D. lay 8. A. derail B. e-mail C. train D. again 9. A. pain B. aisle C. daily D. tail 10. A. grass B. ask C. bass D. after SOUNDS 6 1. A. latter B. later C. classmate D. date 2. A. praise B. wait C. spontaneous D. plait 3. A. alike B. above C. abstract D. about 4. A. toward B. soar C. oar D. cupboard 5. A. lane B. make C. manage D. tame 6. A. table B. acquainted C. favour D. captain 7. A. fan B. plane C. happy D. sand 8. A. eradicate B. character C. maroon D. spectacular 9. A. any B. blames C. many D. comment 10. A. clause B. court C. mauve D. pause SOUNDS 7 1. A. debt B. birth-mark C. obstacle D. forbid 2. A. barber B. tomb C. abound D. tobacco 3. A. embroider B. piggybank C. syllable D. doubtful 4. A. tab B. mob C. comb D. rib 5. A. dumb B. basement C. abnormal D. beachwear 6. A. fabric B. boiling C. climbing D. botanist 7. A. comfortable B. bombing C. baby D. bright 8. A. matchbox B. harbour C. bungalow D. subtle 9. A. plumber B. tribe C. bribe D. fiber 10. A. thumb B. womb C. limb D. suburb SOUNDS 8 1. A. moustache B. ocean C. celebrate D. special 2. A. character B. cart C. chemistry D. chimney 3. A. society B. social C. cellar D. proceed 4. A. chain B. choice C. choir D. chocolate Bảo Thoa 2 5. A. sufficient B. deficiency C. precious D. concentration 6. A. describe B. science C. scenic D. scepter 7. A. touch B. much C. yacht D. Dutch 8. A. orchid B. change C. church D. achieve 9. A. pace B. race C. loose D. cellphone 10. A. chronic B. molecule C. critic D. scenery SOUNDS 9 1. A. cherish B. Christmas C. chameleon D. chronology 2. A. gauche B. epoch C. acheless D. Achilles 3. A. chaos B. chronicle C. chairman D. chorus 4. A. obstacle B. muscle C. pinnacle D. cleaning 5. A. chemical B. caress C. cello D. colonial 6. A. schwa B. scheme C. skeptical D. schematic 7. A. bronchitis B. chestnut C. chronometer D. chrisma 8. A. chauvinism B. exchange C. teacher D. childrearing 9. A. bristle B. indict C. Connecticut D. Vinci 10. A. scherzo B. scholar C. school D. Deutschmark SOUNDS 10 1. A. petty B. pretty C. election D. net 2. A. trolley B. donkey C. grey D. money 3. A. appear B. serious C. fearsome D. bear 4. A. wrapped B. walked C. wicked D. passed 5. A. feat B. deadly C. peanut D. aesthetic 6. A. dialed B. talked C. stopped D. laughed 7. A. breath B. receive C. feature D. breathe 8. A. influenced B. accompanied C. terrified D. averaged 9. A. conceive B. believe C. conceit D. foreign 10. A. breakfast B. great C. meant D. lead [chì] SOUNDS 11 1. A. beach B. bean C. break D. breach 2. A. seaside B. remedial C. leadership D. beefsteak 3. A. lasted B. needed C. asked D. painted 4. A. people B. serious C. comedian D. arena 5. A. atmosphere B. therefore C. wherever D. farewell 6. A. news B. flew C. dew D. few 7. A. reach B. heavy C. seen D. peak 8. A. height B. eighty C. weight D. freight 9. A. nephew B. skew C. knew D. sew 10. A. sincere B. zero C. reference D. spear SOUNDS 12 Bảo Thoa 3 1. A. inversion B. permanent C. clerk D. derby [Br. E] 2. A. teach B. mean C. Sweden D. head 3. A. early B. sulphuric C. hurl D. turning 4. A. heart B. ear C. dear D. peer 5. A. leave B. seat C. reach D. area 6. A. surgeon B. courageous C. people D. sulphur 7. A. appear B. bear C. dear D. weary 8. A. great B. snail C. raid D. aisle 9. A. married B. wanted C. naked D. beloved 10. A. her B. speaker C. teacher D. theater SOUNDS 13 1. A. significant B. logical C. investigate D. bargain 2. A. singe B. vague C. Nigerian D. genuine 3. A. regret B. range C. surgery D. stage 4. A. signal B. signature C. sign D. together 5. A. geneticist B. government C. globe D. guarantee 6. A. reef B. enough C. through D. tough 7. A. energy B. disadvantage C. biology D. ground 8. A. gesture B. handbag C. language D. agency 9. A. hiccough B. staff C. tough D. though 10. A. Singapore B. singer C. longer D. finger SOUNDS 14 1. A. colleague B. gracefully C. hangar D. benign 2. A. coverage B. beverage C. rouge D. gauge 3. A. though B. cough C. photograph D. laugh 4. A. glorious B. generation C. gaudy D. gorgeous 5. A. gender B. gymnastic C. giant D. gala 6. A. swinger B. stronger C. longer D. younger 7. A. enlarge B. arrange C. dangerous D. camouflage 8. A. giraffe B. goal C. gin D. ginger 9. A. phlegm B. gnat C. smog D. foreign 10. A. gnome B. assignment C. designer D. magnificent SOUNDS 15 1. A. locate B. geologist C. horizon D. gallop 2. A. rough B. tough C. through D. much 3. A. environment B. information C. favor D. form 4. A. mouse B. put C. would D. could 5. A. sufficient B. enough C. thorough D. touch 6. A. food B. blood C. pool D. fool 7. A. combine B. collaborate C. commerce D. tomato 8. A. atmosphere B. mostly C. hydropower D. almost 9. A. lose B. shoes C. toes D. canoes 10. A. loose B. cooperation C. tool D. spoon SOUNDS 16 Bảo Thoa 4 1. A. photograph B. motor C. download D. impose 2. A. dough B. borough C. although D. low 3. A. colony B. balcony C. appropriate D. agony 4. A. erosion B. focus C. disposed D. logic 5. A. troublesome B. income C. monthly D. drunkard 6. A. couple B. country C. funny D. about 7. A. common B. comma C. compound D. comb 8. A. pollen B. pollute C. promotion D. possession 9. A. remove B. woman C. rule D. two 10. A. host B. most C. cost D. post SOUNDS 17 1. A. transform B. formation C. worry D. warm 2. A. worth B. worldwide C. hurt D. wolf 3. A. resource B. exhaust C. abound D. four 4. A. stone B. comic C. tolerate D. documentary 5. A. double B. does C. mosquito D. dull 6. A. supersonic B. solve C. scholarship D. tobacco 7. A. coincide B. coins C. point D. soil 8. A. process B. property C. prospect D. phosphate 9. A. how B. cow C. blow D. down 10. A. noon B. good C. book D. foot SOUNDS 18 1. A. homonym B. horrible C. location D. involve 2. A. loan B. loath C. lode D. position 3. A. mould B. should C. would D. could 4. A. ought B. bough C. thought D. brought 5. A. spoor B. door C. floor D. force 6. A. poisonous B. noise C. tortoise D. buoy 7. A. golf B. adulthood C. wood D. bosom 8. A. wool B. mood C. took D. look 9. A. postage B. ostrich C. frost D. hostage 10. A. postcard B. superpose C. remote D. toddle SOUNDS 19 1. A. told B. poultry C. volunteer D. cold 2. A. good B. boom C. cook D. could 3. A. meadow B. tow C. show D. knowledge 4. A. moss B. company C. colourful D. cover 5. A. comedy B. below C. comb D. grow 6. A. both B. moth C. clothes D. pole 7. A. apostle B. cost C. costume D. milepost 8. A. foes B. potatoes C. does D. shows 9. A. cupboard B. chalkboard C. hoard D. taught Bảo Thoa 5 10. A. bought B. court C. course D. courier SOUNDS 20 1. A. cool B. shoot C. flood D. soon 2. A. bond B. month C. pond D. fond 3. A. donkey B. Tom C. women D. bomb 4. A. courage B. rough C. roundabout D. cough 5. A. forbid B. gorgeous C. torpedor D. aboard 6. A. soul B. touch C. soldier D. shoulder 7. A. found B. loud C. moustache D. brown 8. A. know B. now C. drowse D. fountain 9. A. open B. over C. office D. poster 10. A. Missouri B. tourist C. fluoride D. sour SOUNDS 21 1. A. excellent B. except C. exchange D. exhort 2. A. excuse B. exemplify C. extent D. exclamation 3. A. exactitude B. text C. inbox D. extreme 4. A. mixture B. sexy C. checkbox D. exemption 5. A. X-ray B. X-bar C. Xmas D. x-axis 6. A. fox B. axis C. wax D. xenophobia 7. A. crux B. luxury C. anxious D. asphyxia 8. A. thanks B. kicks C. prix D. fix 9. A. anthrax B. flexion C. buxom D. axiom 10. A. circumflex B. crucifix C. crucifixion D. toxin SOUNDS 22 1. A. fax B. approximate C. anxiety D. fox 2. A. auxililiary B. axis C. fix D. boxing 3. A. example B. exist C. exhaust D. exercise 4. A. extra B. exhibition C. exaggerate D. exam 5. A. sixty B. fixture C. chickenpox D. anxious 6. A. exception B. exert C. exactly D. exile 7. A. exciting B. excerpt C. excess D. exotic 8. A. complexity B. complexion C. context D. smallpox 9. A. exceed B. oxen C. xerox D. excluding 10. A. Marxism B. tax C. maximum D. existence SOUNDS 23 1. A. exalt B. coaxing C. climax D. cervix 2. A. index B. paradox C. xenon D. sphinx 3. A. existential B. dioxin C. matrix D. ambidextrous 4. A. earwax B. exude C. dyslexia D. elixir 5. A. cybersex B. execute C. exhale D. faux Bảo Thoa 6 AN ANSWER KEY IS NOT WISHED FOR! Bảo Thoa 7 . WHICH SOUND IS DIFFERENT? These tests will certainly meet your expectation, my dear colleagues. Ngô Đình Bảo Thoa SOUNDS 1 1. A. earflap. schematic 7. A. bronchitis B. chestnut C. chronometer D. chrisma 8. A. chauvinism B. exchange C. teacher D. childrearing 9. A. bristle B. indict C. 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