Exercise on stress on two-sylable words
I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others:
1. a. nature
b. change
c. gravity
d. basic
2. a. darkness
b. warmth
c. market
d. remark
3. a. trays
b. says
c. bays
d. days
4. a. knees
b. papers
c. trees
d. bats
5. a. because
b. nurse
c. horse
d. purpose
6. a. marriage
b. massage
c. collage
d. shortage
7. a. enough
b. tough
c. laugh
d. though
8. a. breathe
b. with
c. thermal
d. clothing
9. a. education
b . individual c. procedure
d. producti
10. a. released
b. pleased
c. passed
d. housed
11. a. helped
b. struggled c. remarked
d. watched
12. a. airports
b. suitcases c. things
d. calculators
13. a. fills
b. adds
c. stirs
d. lets
14. a. cease
b. chase
c. increase
d. raise
15. a. shops
b. notes
c. mouths
d. books
16. a. jumped
b. picked
c. relaxed
d. suited
17. a. hooked
b. kissed
c. traveled
d. diminished
18. a. passed
b. realized
c. wished
d. touched
19. a. enjoyed
b. moved
c. achieved
d. liked
20. a. wicked
b. wanted
c. needed
d. filled
II. Pick out the word that has the stress differently from that of the other words:
1. a. recently
b. conduct
c. attitude
d. marriage
2. a. banquet
b. schedule
c. diameter
d. blessing
3. a. birthday
b. cowboy
c. enjoy
d. pleasure
4. a. disease
b. humour
c. cancer
d. treatment
5. a. persuade
b. reduce
c. offer
d. apply
6 . a. farmer
b. farewell
c. factory
d. fairy
7. a. cattle
b. country
c. canal
d. cover
8. a. money
b. machine
c. many
d. mother
9. a. borrow
b. agree
c. await
d. prepare
10. a. paper
b. tonight
c. lecture
d. story
11. a. money
b. army
c. afraid
d. people
12. a. enjoy
b. daughter
c. provide
d. decide
13. a. begine
b. pastime
c. finish
d. summer
14. a. reply
b. appeal
c. offer
d. support
15. a. profit
b. comfort
c. apply
d. suggest
16. a. direct
b. idea
c. suppose
d. figure
17. a. revise
b. amount
c. contain
d. desire
18. a. standard
b. happen
c. handsome
d. destroy
19. a. about
b. around
c. between
d. under
20. a. knowledge
b. enjoy
c. science
d. sudden
21. a. because
b. method
c. standard
d. wooden
22. a. ashtray
b. music
c. severe
d. temper
23. a. farewell
b. thoughtful c. toward
d. approach
24. a. bridegroom
b. bamboo
c. wedding
d. survey
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25. a. healthy
26. a. explain
27. a. confide
28. a. precede
29. a. abroad
30. a. passion
31. a. exist
32. a. doctor
33. a. complain
34. a. writer
35. a. provide
36. a. result
37. a. constant
38. a.become
39. a. engine
40. a. attract
41. a. spaceship
42. a. brilliant
43. a. appoint
44. a. button
45. a. disease
46. a. persuade
47. a. farmer
48. a. cattle
49. a. money
50 a. borrow
51. a. paper
52. a. damage
53. a. ancient
54. a. person
55. a. ruler
56. a. sentence
57. a. attack
58. a. release
b. remain
b. obtain
b. agree
b. suppose
b. noisy
b. aspect
b. evolve
b. modern
b. machine
b. baker
b. adopt
b. region
b. basic
b. carry
b. battle
b. destroy
b. planet
b. daily
b. gather
b. canal
b. humour
b. reduce
b. farewell
b. country
b. machine
b. agree
b. police
b. destroy
b. attack
b. purpose
b. river
b. suggest
b. defeat
b. pleasure
c. alone
c. promise
c. maintain
c. decide
c. hundred
c. medium
c. enjoy
c. corner
c. music
c. builder
c. happen
c. river
c. irate
c. appoint
c. career
c. level
c. solar
c. extreme
c. threaten
c. failure
c. cancer
c. offer
c. factory
c. canal
c. many
c. await
c. people
c. demand
c. alive
c. possess
c. retire
c. species
c. beieve
c. leaver
d. accept
d. suspect
d. response
d. finish
d. quiet
d. success
d. enter
d. Chinese
d. instead
d. career
d. inspire
d. robot
d. obvious
d. invent
d. rabies
d. occur
d. surround
d. protein
d. vanish
d. monster
d. treatment
d. apply
d. fairy
d. cover
d. mother
d. prepare.
d. purpose
d. deny
d. across
d. pirate
d. rapid
d. system
d. happen
d creamy
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Key:
I.
1c, 2b, 3b, 4d, 5a, 6b, 7d, 8c, 9c, 10b, 11b, 12a, 13d, 14d, 15c, 16d, 17c, 18b, 19d, 20d.
II. Stress:
1b, 2c, 3c, 4a, 5c, 6b, 7c, 8b, 9a, 10b, 11c, 12b, 13a, 14c, 15a, 16d, 17b, 18d, 19d, 20b, 21a, 22c, 23b,
24b, 25a, 26c, 27d, 28d, 29a, 30d, 31d, 32d, 33c, 34d, 35c, 36a, 37c, 38b, 39c, 40c, 41d, 42c, 43a, 44b,
45a, 46c, 47b, 48c, 49b, 50a, 51b, 52a, 53a, 54c, 55c, 56b, 57d, 58a.
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