Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three in the following question
D. challenge
Chọn B
Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer among four options (A, B, C or D).
He's really shy _______ girl.
Read the passage carefully then fill in the blank a suitable word.
As swimming became a popular recreation in England during the 1860s and 1870s, several (1) ______ sports developed, roughly patterned after land sports. (2) ______ them were water football (or soccer), water rugby, water handball, and water polo, in which players rode on floating barrels, painted to look (3) ______ horses, and struck the ball with a stick.
Water rugby became most popular of these sports, but somehow the water polo name became attached to it, and it's been attached (4) ______ since.
As played in England, the object of the sport was for a player to touch the ball, with both (5) ______, at the goal end of the pool. The goaltender stood on the pool deck, ready to dive on any opponent who was about to score.
Water polo quickly became a very rough sport, filled (6) ______ underwater fights away from the ball, and it wasn't unusual for players to pass out for lack of air.
In 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addiction of goalposts. The Scots also replaced (7) ______ original small, hard rubber ball with a soccer ball and adopted (8) ______ that prohibited taking the ball under the surface or, "tackling" a player unless he had the ball.
The Scottish game, which emphasized swimming speed, passing, and (9) ______ work, spread to England during the early 1880s, to Hungary in 1889, to Austria and Germany in 1894, to France in 1895, and (10) ______ Belgium in 1900.
Water polo was the first team sport added to the Olympic program, in 1900.
The mysteries of the skies
Three hundred and fifty years before the first men looked down on the amazingly beautiful surface of the moon from close quarters, Galileo’s newly built telescope (1) _________ (able) him to look at the edge of the hitherto mysterious sphere. He saw that the apparently (2) _________ (live) surface was not divinely smooth and round, but bumpy and imperfect. He realized that although the moon might appear (3) _______ (act), resembling a still life painted by the hand of a cosmic (4) ____________ (art), it was a real world, perhaps not very different from our own. This amounted to a great (5) _________ (achieve) hardly to be expected in his day and age, although nowadays his (6) _________ (conclude) may appear to some to be trivial and (7) _____________ (signify).
Not long after Galileo lunar’s observations, the skies which had previously been so (8) _____________ (elude) revealed more of their extraordinary mysteries. Casting around for further wonders, Galileo focused his lens on the (9) _____________ (strike) planet of Jupiter. Nestling next to it, he saw four little points of light circling the distant planet. Our moon it appeared, perhaps (10) ____________ (fortune) in the eyes of those fearful of what the discovery might mean, was not alone!It is thought that the boss is considering raising wages.
→ The boss____________
Write the new sentences using the given word. Do not change the word given in any way.
They have discovered some interesting new information. (LIGHT)