Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

The Beauty Contest is_____________start at 8:00 a.m our time next Monday.

When the first child was born, they_____________for three years.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

They conducted a campaign to promote people's awareness of environmental problems.

The number of vehicles on the roads_____________increasing, so we need to build more roads.

According to the passage, clouds are primarily formed by water_____________.

Sally has just won a full scholarship to one of the most prestigious universities in the world; she must be on cloud nine now.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

The (26)_____________American watches television for more than four hours a day. A recent study found that children 6 months to 6 years old spend on average 2 hours a day watching television, using a computer or playing a video game. That is three times as long as they spend reading or being read to. Television makes children violent and aggressive. (27) _____________to the National Institute of Mental Health, there is a consensus developing among members of the research community that violence on television does (28) _____________to aggressive behaviour by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Television discourages face-to-face interaction among children or families. Sitting (29) _____________ in front of the television leads to weight gain, increasing the chances of diabetes in children and heart disease in adults. Television programs model undesirable behaviour such as drug and alcohol use or (30) _____________relationships. Research indicates that students may be less able to engage in formal descriptions of events or objects than their peers in the past.

In a car accident he_____________.

She behaved in a very strange way. That surprised me a lot.

I regret to tell you that a rise in salary is_____________just now.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

The fire caused_____________damage that that building had to be destroyed.