Which Sound Is Different?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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