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EXERCISES ON STRESS

VHV-PRONUNCIATION

Exercise 1. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. adorable
B. ability
C. impossible
D. entertainment
2. A. engineer
B. corporate
C. difficult
D. different
3. A. popular
B. position
C. horrible
D. positive
4. A. selfish
B. correct
C. purpose
D. surface
5. A. permission
B. computer
C. million
D. perfection
6. A. scholarship
B. negative
C. develop
D. purposeful

7. A. ability
B. acceptable
C. education
D. hilarious
8. A. document
B. comedian
C. perspective
D. location
9. A. provide
B. product
C. promote
D. profess
10.A. different
B. regular
C. achieving
D. property
11.A. education
B. community
C. development D. unbreakable
12.A. politics
B. deposit
C. conception
D. occasion
13.A. prepare
B. repeat
C. purpose
D. police
14.A. preface
B. famous
C. forget

D. childish
15.A. cartoon
B. western
C. teacher
D. theater
16.A. Brazil
B. Iraq
C. Norway
D. Japan
17.A. scientific
B. ability
C. experience
D. material
18.A. complain
B. luggage
C. improve
D. forgive
19.A. offensive
B. delicious
C. dangerous
D. religious
20.A. develop
B. adjective
C. generous
D. popular
Exercise 2. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. beautiful
B. important

C. delicious
D. exciting
2. A. element
B. regular
C. believing
D. policy
3. A. punctual
B. tolerant
C. utterance
D. occurrence
4. A. expensive
B. sensitive
C. negative
D. sociable
5. A. education
B. development C. economic
D. preparation
6. A. attend
B. option
C. percent
D. become
7. A. literature
B. entertainment C. recreation
D. information
8. A. attractive
B. perception
C. cultural
D. expensive
9. A. chocolate
B. structural

C. important
D. national
10.A. cinema
B. position
C. family
D. popular
11.A. natural
B. department
C. exception
D. attentive
12.A. economy
B. diplomacy
C. informative
D. information
13.A. arrest
B. purchase
C. accept
D. forget
14.A. expertise
B. cinema
C. recipe
D. similar

15.A. government
B. musician
C. disgusting
D. exhausting
16.A. successful
B. interest
C. arrangement

D. disaster
17.A. competition
B. repetition
C. equivalent
D. disappointment
18.A. private
B. provide
C. arrange
D. advise
19.A. academic
B. education
C. impossible
D. optimistic
20.A. study
B. knowledge
C. precise
D. message
Exercise 3. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. industry
B. performance
C. importance
D. provision
2. A. contain
B. express
C. carbon
D. obey
3. A. impress
B. favor

C. occur
D. police
4. A. regret
B. selfish
C. purpose
D. preface
5. A. govern
B. cover
C. perform
D. father
6. A. writer
B. teacher
C. builder
D. career
7. A. morning
B. college
C. arrive
D. famous
8. A. ambitious
B. chocolate
C. position
D. occurrence
9. A. furniture
B. abandon
C. practical
D. scientist
10.A. devote
B. compose
C. purchase
D. advise

11.A. remember
B. influence
C. expression
D. convenient
12.A. medium
B. computer
C. formation
D. connection
13.A. national
B. cultural
C. popular
D. musician
14.A. successful
B. humorous
C. arrangement
D. attractive
15.A. construction
B. typical
C. glorious
D. purposeful
16.A. accident
B. courageous
C. dangerous
D. character
17.A. accordance
B. various
C. balcony
D. technical
18.A. telephone
B. photograph

C. expertise
D. diplomat
19.A. romantic
B. illusion
C. description
D. incident
20.A. bankruptcy
B. successive
C. piano
D. phonetics
Exercise 4. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. designer
B. origin
C. history
D. quality
2. A. capital
B. construction
C. announcement D. eventful
3. A. apartment
B. tradition
C. different
D. expensive
4. A. monitor
B. organize
C. following
D. inviting
5. A. accurate
B. discussion

C. sentiment
D. industry
6. A. probable
B. assembly
C. forgetful
D. decisive
7. A. damage
B. faster
C. regret
D. study
8. A. factory
B. reporter
C. actress
D. coverage
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9. A. amazing
B. following
C. covering
D. finishing
10.A. because
B. become
C. beneath
D. beggar
11.A. pollution

B. excitement
C. usually
D. remember
12.A. encourage
B. tropical
C. discover
D. advancement
13.A. atmosphere
B. Atlantic
C. athletics
D. Canadian
14.A. tomorrow
B. continue
C. popular
D. informing
15.A. population
B. communicate C. ability
D. continuum
16.A. committee
B. comedian
C. communist
D. completion
17.A. company
B. atmosphere
C. customer
D. employment
18.A. century
B. evening
C. exciting
D. managing

19.A. pleasant
B. famous
C. suppose
D. mother
20.A. supper
B. support
C. supply
D. supreme
Exercise 5. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. rescue
B. request
C. receive
D. repeat
2. A. hundred
B. thousand
C. relic
D. relax
3. A. approach
B. method
C. police
D. reserve
4. A. gallery
B. museum
C. tolerant
D. industry
5. A. picturesque
B. company
C. element

D. beautiful
6. A. condition
B. endanger
C. destruction
D. interest
7. A. enemy
B. engineer
C. energy
D. envelop
8. A. summit
B. submit
C. suppose
D. support
9. A. superior
B. material
C. experience
D. superficial
10.A. authority
B. development C. competition
D. capacity
11.A. award
B. enroll
C. music
D. below
12.A. champion
B. matches
C. direct
D. famous
13.A. colorful
B. summary

C. similar
D. impressive
14.A. economics
B. philosophy
C. engineering
D. preposition
15.A. biology
B. absolutely
C. photography
D. geography
16.A. politics
B. literature
C. chemistry
D. statistic
17.A. profitable
B. reliable
C. dependable
D. forgettable
18.A. likeable
B. oxygen
C. museum
D. energy
19.A. apology
B. stupidity
C. generously
D. astronomy
20.A. abroad
B. active
C. address
D. attend

Exercise 6. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. arrow
B. arrive
C. arrest
D. about
2. A. excuse
B. suburb
C. garden
D. swimming

3. A. fascinate
B. discourage
C. horrible
D. terrify
4. A. tenant
B. common
C. rubbish
D. machine
5. A. revision
B. remember
C. dialogue
D. adverbial
6. A. Christmas
B. champion
C. chemise
D. chimney
7. A. crowded
B. language

C. practice
D. propose
8. A. marvelous
B. courageous
C. delicious
D. religious
9. A. animal
B. bacteria
C. habitat
D. pyramid
10.A. wonderful
B. beautiful
C. colorful
D. successful
11.A. fantastic
B. gymnastics
C. politics
D. emphatic
12.A. difficulty
B. equality
C. simplicity
D. discovery
13.A. challenge
B. counter
C. complain
D. guardian
14.A. advance
B. ancient
C. carrier
D. annual

15.A. female
B. fellow
C. husband
D. mature
16.A. severe
B. harbor
C. tutor
D. surface
17.A. father
B. woman
C. degree
D. weather
18.A. example
B. paragraph
C. telephone
D. favorite
19.A. discover
B. appointment
C. important
D. telescope
20.A. partner
B. excuse
C. apple
D. parents
Exercise 7. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. eleven
B. yesterday
C. attitude

D. evening
2. A. recognize
B. interfere
C. clarify
D. tolerate
3. A. receive
B. angry
C. hungry
D. proper
4. A. guidance
B. degree
C. awful
D. safety
5. A. police
B. avoid
C. arrange
D. pattern
6. A. color
B. passion
C. behave
D. children
7. A. license
B. suppose
C. painting
D. member
8. A. powerful
B. proposal
C. athletic
D. position
9. A. example

B. exercise
C. exactly
D. exporting
10.A. explosive
B. exploring
C. expression
D. excellence
11.A. dividend
B. division
C. distinctive
D. disgusting
12.A. family
B. enemy
C. assembly
D. harmony
13.A. assistant
B. difficult
C. important
D. encourage
14.A. reference
B. coverage
C. positive
D. referee
15.A. foreign
B. avoid
C. revise
D. review
16.A. student
B. famous
C. refer

D. practice
17.A. evening
B. afternoon
C. institute
D. possible
18.A. regard
B. award
C. easy
D. believe
19.A. balcony
B. envelope
C. chocolate
D. location
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20.A. temperature
B. direction
C. pollution
D. condition
Exercise 8. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. gather
B. unique
C. locate

D. fashion
2. A. accomplishmentB. environment C. experience
D. satisfaction
3. A. comprise
B. depend
C. design
D. novel
4. A. tropical
B. collection
C. tendency
D. charity
5. A. friendliness
B. occasion
C. pagoda
D. deposit
6. A. importing
B. specific
C. impolite
D. important
7. A. federation
B. unpolluted
C. disappearing D. profitable
8. A. deposit
B. festival
C. institute
D. resident
9. A. surprising
B. astonishing
C. amazing
D. interesting

10.A. interview
B. industry
C. essential
D. difficult
11.A. extreme
B. generous
C. lonely
D. clothing
12.A. friendly
B. extra
C. along
D. orphanage
13.A. vocabulary
B. influential
C. engineering
D. biological
14.A. tourism
B. dictionary
C. household
D. computer
15.A. geography
B. imaginative
C. comfortable
D. unless
16.A. ashamed
B. absent
C. because
D. instead
17.A. advantage
B. laboratory

C. bamboo
D. courage
18.A. employee
B. Japanese
C. economical
D. disagree
19.A. lemonade
B. apartment
C. mathematics
D. understand
20.A. powerful
B. acceptable
C. passenger
D. preference
Exercise 9. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. electronic
B. education
C. deficiency
D. possibility
2. A. industrial
B. electrician
C. manufacture
D. accidental
3. A. finish
B. revise
C. prefer
D. produce
4. A. purpose

B. entrance
C. music
D. typhoon
5. A. interesting
B. necessity
C. pollution
D. environment
6. A. excellent
B. popular
C. efficient
D. beautiful
7. A. chemical
B. upset
C. steamer
D. cupboard
8. A. jungle
B. volcano
C. surround
D. marine
9. A. referee
B. microwave
C. manufacture
D. immortal
10.A. powder
B. process
C. flavor
D. defrost
11.A. defrost
B. harvest
C. appear

D. village
12.A. sociable
B. reserved
C. generous
D. humorous
13.A. enroll
B. summer
C. hobby
D. favor

14.A. beautiful
15.A. theater
16.A. annoy
17.A. sociable
18.A. although
19.A. neighbor
20.A. appearance

B. expensive
B. mobile
B. enough
B. photograph
B. generous
B. receive
B. orphanage

C. plenty
C. movie
C. lucky
C. orphanage

C. outgoing
C. different
C. friendly

D. difficult
D. machine
D. describe
D. volunteer
D. humorous
D. classmate
D. beautiful

Exercise 10. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. customer
B. stationery
C. furniture
D. deliver
2. A. machine
B. distance
C. address
D. device
3. A. number
B. transmit
C. contact
D. arrange
4. A. massage
B. exhibition
C. experiment

D. invention
5. A. telephone
B. emigrate
C. demonstrate
D. introduce
6. A. tonight
B. dinner
C. sorry
D. problem
7. A. saucepan
B. steamer
C. beside
D. object
8. A. lighting
B. refrigerator
C. fixture
D. safety
9. A. destroy
B. remember
C. forget
D. injure
10.A. chemical
B. medicine
C. calendar
D. precaution
11.A. cruel
B. excited
C. afraid D. upset
12.A. include
B. escape

C. marry
D. appear
13.A. equipment
B. traditional
C. remember
D. fortunate
14.A. magical
B. immediate
C. interesting
D. dangerous
15.A. festival
B. buffalo
C. electricity
D. furniture
16.A. report
B. across
C. lunar
D. remember
17.A. improve
B. comment
C. revise
D. believe
18.A. semester
B. festival
C. memory
D. meaning
19.A. underline
B. satisfactory
C. pronunciation D. conversation
20.A. behavior

B. participate
C. tradition
D. necessary
Exercise 11. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. enroll
B. hobby
C. favor
D. offer
2. A. activity
B. unite
C. register
D. explain
3. A. voluntary
B. education
C. academic
D. application
4. A. citizenship
B. assistance
C. similar
D. character
5. A. environment B. encourage
C. establish
D. organization
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of the others in each group.
1. A. cartoon
B. open
C. paper
D. answer
2. A. manage
B. shortage
C. village
D. teacher
3. A. remain
B. convenient
C. volunteer
D. memorable
4. A. maintain
B. marine
C. challenge
D. device
5. A. important
B. community
C. organize
D. diseases
6. A. toothpaste
B. sandwich
C. cartoon
D. chocolate
7. A. aerobics
B. activity
C. badminton

D. basketball
8. A. police
B. gymnast
C. teacher
D. farmer
9. A. different
B. dangerous
C. difficult
D. delicious
10.A. visit
B. unload
C. receive
D. correct
11.A. provide
B. improve
C. contain
D. borrow
12.A. attraction
B. collection
C. musician
D. musical
13.A. opposite
B. bakery
C. arrival
D. realize
14.A. variety
B. sensible
C. appointment
D. continue
15.A. preventive

B. literature
C. measurement D. temperature
16.A. documentary B. advantage
C. magazine
D. popularity
17.A. introduction
B. television
C. graduation
D. reputation
18.A. economy
B. diplomacy
C. informative
D. information
19.A. forget
B. harbor
C. tutor
D. surface
20.A. family
B. enemy
C. assembly
D. harmony
Exercise 14. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. conscientiouslyB. communication C. connectivity
D. multimedia
2. A. collaborate
B. commercially C. impractical
D. fluctuation
3. A. linkage

B. password
C. resource
D. birthright
4. A. universe
B. Internet
C. diagram
D. procedure
5. A. inapplicability B. recoverable
C. diagonally
D. congenially
6. A. participant
B. philosopher
C. observance
D. nominate
7. A. monotonous
B. refundable
C. residential
D. renewable
8. A. principal
B. geothermal
C. gratitude
D. guarantee
9. A. picturesque
B. etiquette
C. cosmonaut
D. Internet
10.A. entertain
B. biotech
C. reminder
D. attachment

11.A. independent
B. education
C. impractical
D. entertainment
12.A. important
B. silently
C. performance
D. permission
13.A. advantage
B. chemical
C. conception
D. deposit
14.A. advisable
B. reliable
C. admirable
D. acceptable
15.A. destination
B. presidential
C. economic
D. comparison
16.A. technology
B. document
C. facsimile
D. competitive

6. A. humid
B. airmail
C. discuss
D. pancake
7. A. notice

B. effect
C. contact
D. surface
8. A. concern
B. comfort
C. product
D. market
9. A. customer
B. grocery
C. resident
D. delicious
10.A. organize
B. community
C. restaurant
D. neighborhood
11.A. offer
B. rural
C. prefer
D. urban
12.A. delay
B. create
C. believe
D. harvest
13.A. migrant
B. remote
C. supply
D. typhoon
14.A. tragedy
B. unpleasant
C. relative

D. hospital
15.A. information
B. entertainment C. government
D. population
16.A. damage
B. revive
C. promise
D. bandage
17.A. asleep
B. conscious
C. sterile
D. tissue
18.A. stretcher
B. towel
C. awake
D. treatment
19.A. ambulance
B. injection
C. minimize
D. handkerchief
20.A. happen
B. beautiful
C. hospital
D. overheat
Exercise 12. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. relax
B. recognize
C. realize

D. relatively
2. A. permanent
B. power
C. permission
D. carpet
3. A. photography B. minority
C. heroic
D. carpet
4. A. practicality
B. politician
C. uncontrollable D. comfortable
5. A. managerial
B. determination C. unbelievable D. inability
6. A. deposit
B. festival
C. institute
D. resident
7. A. surprising
B. astonishing
C. amazing
D. interesting
8. A. interview
B. industry
C. essential
D. difficult
9. A. extreme
B. generous
C. lonely
D. clothing
10.A. friendly

B. extra
C. along
D. orphanage
11.A. philosopher
B. patriot
C. atmosphere
D. habit
12.A. pollute
B. severe
C. tragic
D. humane
13.A. economical
B. personality
C. preparatory
D. entertainment
14.A. interrupt
B. interview
C. intervene
D. interstellar
15.A. mechanic
B. terrific
C. Arabic
D. Pacific
16.A. interesting
B. surprising
C. amusing
D. successful
17.A. understand
B. engineer
C. benefit

D. Vietnamese
18.A. applicant
B. uniform
C. yesterday
D. employment
19.A. paper
B. tonight
C. lecture
D. story
20.A. money
B. army
C. afraid
D. people
Exercise 13. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
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17.A. transit
B. transmit
C. transact
D. translate
18.A. installation
B. disadvantage C. dissatisfied
D. disappointed
19.A. available

B. potential
C. unlimited
D. infinite
20.A. ecologist
B. fertilizer
C dangerous
D. scientist
Exercise 15. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. equality
B. difficulty
C. simplicity
D. discovery
2. A. tenant
B. common
C. rubbish
D. machine
3. A. animal
B. bacteria
C. habitat
D. pyramid
4. A. writer
B. teacher
C. builder
D. career
5. A. company
B. atmosphere
C. customer
D. employment

6. A. considerate
B. photographer C. community
D. circumstance
7. A. apply
B. anthem
C. appear
D. attend
8. A. scenery
B. festival
C. atmosphere
D. location
9. A. prevent
B. recent
C. receive
D. remote
10.A. opposite
B. geography
C. geometry
D. endanger
11.A. apply
B. persuade
C. reduce
D. offer
12.A. preservative
B. congratulate
C. preferential
D. development
13.A. president
B. physicist
C. inventor

D. property
14.A. economy
B. unemploymentC. communicateD. particular
15.A. recommend
B. volunteer
C. understand
D. potential
16.A. elephant
B. dinosaur
C. buffalo
D. mosquito
17.A. abnormal
B. initial
C. innocent
D. impatient
18.A. significant
B. convenient
C. fashionable
D. traditional
19.A. catastrophe
B. agriculture
C. dictionary
D. supervisor
20.A. settle
B. protect
C. compose
D. relate
Exercise 16. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.

1. A. organism
B. attraction
C. prevention
D. engagement
2. A. popularity
B. laboratory
C. politician
D. documentary
3. A. imagine
B. inhabit
C. continue
D. disappear
4. A. periodic
B. electric
C. suspicious
D. contagious
5. A. advertise
B. advantage
C. adventure
D. adverbial
6. A. represent
B. permanent
C. sentiment
D. continent
7. A. future
B. involve
C. prospect
D. guidance
8. A. accuracy
B. fabulous

C. immediate
D. optimist
9. A. facilitate
B. intimacy
C. participate
D. hydrology
10.A. reduction
B. popular
C. romantic
D. financial

11.A. amaze
B. offer
C. release
D. believe
12.A. socialize
B. memory
C. tradition
D. animal
13.A. biology
B. ability
C. interactive
D. inaccurate
14.A. actor
B. career
C. rubbish
D. cocktail
15.A. similar
B. attractive
C. chemical

D. calculate
16.A. facility
B. characterize
C. irrational
D. variety
17.A. agreement
B. elephant
C. mineral
D. violent
18.A. professor
B. typical
C. accountant
D. develop
19.A. electrician
B. majority
C. appropriate
D. traditional
20.A. decay
B. vanish
C. attack
D. depend
Exercise 17. Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word
whose main stress position is placed differently from that
of the others in each group.
1. A. vacation
B. different
C. beautiful
D. medical
2. A. delicious
B. colorful

C. important
D. direction
3. A. behind
B. dentist
C. marble
D. novel
4. A. serious
B. around
C. nervous
D. finish
5. A. symptom
B. return
C. heavy
D. normal
6. A. hospital
B. mischievous
C. supportive
D. special
7. A. family
B. whenever
C. obedient
D. solution
8. A. biologist
B. generally
C. responsible
D. security
9. A. confident
B. important
C. together
D. exciting

10.A. possible
B. university
C. secondary
D. suitable
11.A. attract
B. person
C. signal
D. instance
12.A. verbal
B. suppose
C. even
D. either
13.A. example
B. consider
C. several
D. attention
14.A. situation
B. appropriate
C. informality
D. entertainment
15.A. across
B. simply
C. common
D. brother
16.A. effect
B. event
C. emerge
D. even
17.A. insecticide
B. fertilizer

C. pesticide
D. herbicide
18.A. efficient
B. communist
C. impatient
D. delicious
19.A. economy
B. economic
C. economical
D. economically
20.A. renovate
B. domesticate
C. initiate
D. eliminate
21.A. subject
B. swallow
C. story
D. digest
22.A. example
B. holiday
C. careful
D. interest
23.A. describe
B. chapter
C. wonder
D. easy
24.A. understand
B. television
C. improvement D. introduce
25.A. imaginary

B. advantageous C. information
D. incredible
26.A. reserve
B. schedule
C. wildlife
D. beauty
27.A. derive
B. contain
C. leopard
D. prevent
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EXERCISES ON STRESS

28.A. interfere
29.A. president
30.A. intelligent

B. penalty
C. referee
B. manager
C. spectator
B. overwhelmingC. imaginable

VHV-PRONUNCIATION

D. competition
D. counsellor
D. intangible

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