READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

 

1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to the stresses:

 

a) atmosphere, unforgivable, disgusting, absurd, absolute, altar, conceited, irresolutely, automatons, rearrange, Lillipu­tian, precede, .cautiqus, bury, cushions, tiptoe, inaudibly, dove, stealthily, amateur, abbreviation, disagreeable.

 

b) lettuce, abyss, scavenger, rummage, grisly, Eden, vigorous, laxative, ingenious, serpent, exeunt, tentative, extravagant, dishevel(l)ed, atrocious, standoffish, complacent, adorable, motto.