Unit 16: HISTORICAL PLACES

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. laureate
2. together
3. engraving
4. italic

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

He is best known as the _______ of a long-running TV series.

1. origin
2. original
3. originality
4. originator

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. historical
2. renovation
3. traditional
4. continuous

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. memorialize
2. university
3. originally
4. occasionally

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

Reducing the size of classes may improve _______ standards.

1. educate
2. educated
3. educational
4. educative

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. behavior
2. between
3. became
4. relic

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. tortoise
2. between
3. scholar
4. doctor

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. backs
2. scholars
3. ways
4. festivals

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

A number of patients have been _______ treated with the new drug.

1. success
2. successful
3. successfully
4. unsuccessful

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. famous
2. become
3. relic
4. passage

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. educated
2. initially
3. wonderfully
4. beautifully

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

I'm just going to _______ myself - it should only take a few hours.

1. beauty
2. beautiful
3. beautify
4. beautifully

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. thought
2. ground
3. about
4. noun

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. achievement
2. important
3. following
4. consider

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. famous
2. passage
3. talent
4. carry

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

She specializes in _______ novels set in eighteenth-century Englan

1. history
2. historian
3. historic
4. historical

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. established
2. talented
3. educated
4. needed

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

She's studying modern Japanese language and _______.

1. culture
2. cultured
3. cultural
4. culturally

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. laureate
2. teach
3. season
4. mean

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

Ask me again tomorrow. I'll have to give it some _______.

1. think
2. thinking
3. thought
4. thoughtful

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. Confucian
2. cultural
3. architect
4. festival

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

I didn't get much of an _______ of the place because it was dark when we drove through it.

1. impress
2. impression
3. impressive
4. impressively

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. cultural
2. such
3. suggest
4. particular

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

It's just a _______ of the bigger river, but called by a different name.

1. continue
2. continuous
3. continual
4. continuation

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. behavior
2. brilliant
3. existence
4. impressive

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. historical
2. arrival
3. brilliant
4. still

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. places
2. houses
3. increases
4. chooses

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group:

1. Confucian
2. doctor
3. follow
4. long

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group:

1. establish
2. impressive
3. successful
4. typical

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence:

All she needed to _______ her happiness was a baby.

1. complete
2. completely
3. completion
4. completeness