practice exercise 2.2

II. PRONUNCIATION: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

• 11.A. racial

• B. precise

• C. sincere

• D. recycle

II. PRONUNCIATION: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

• 12.A. gesture

• B. hambuger

• C. organic

• D. guilty

II. PRONUNCIATION: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

• 13.A. therefore

• B. southern

• C. breathing.

• D. south

II. PRONUNCIATION: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

• 14.A. masked

• B. markedly

• C. guessed

• D. checked

II. PRONUNCIATION: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

• 15.A. basic

• B. physical

• C. sale

• D. nursery

III. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Choose the best answer

16. A good clock always keeps............time. 

• A. certain

• B. true

• C. accurate

• D. serious

17. Three hours..........too short time for us to talk about this matter.

• A. are

• B. is

• C. takes

• D. take

18. I.........out of the window when I saw him step out of the house.

• A. look

• B. looked

• C. was looking

• D. had looked

19. A woman whose husband has died is a...........

• A. widow

• B. widower

• C. bachelor

• D. bride

20. Vietnam has got a hot, wet and rainy............

• A. climate

• B. weather

• C. season

• D. nature