4000 Essential English Words 5 - Answer Key
4000 Essential English Words 5 - Answer Key
4000 Essential English Words 5 - Answer Key
Unit 1
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F …so she gathered a massive pile of
1. a beans for her cache.
2. b 2. T
3. d 3. T
4. d 4. T
5. c 5. F ... Mary had a paltry amount of food.
6. b
7. d Part B
8. d 1. Beth’s primary job was to gather food.
9. a 2. She thought that food would just come to
10. c her, and she wouldn’t have to work.
3. Mary not having anything to eat.
Exercise 2 4. Mary took the bag and went to work
1. b gathering beans.
2. a 5. She knew her sister was right.
3. c
4. a
5. d
Exercise 3
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. c
5. a
Exercise 4
1. C
2. C
3. I
4. C
5. I
6. I
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. I
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Unit 2
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. a 2. T
2. a 3. F ...had to help the families nonetheless.
3. d 4. T
4. b 5. T
5. d
Part B
Exercise 2 1. The abbot said, “All were eligible.”
1. prairie 2. When the monks grumbled, the young
2. rugged monk speculated that if more families came,
3. arid then they wouldn't make it through the
4. moisture winter.
5. fast 3. The monks fasted and slept in the
6. cathedral churchyard that adjoined the cathedral so
7. abundant that the families would have enough food
8. scarce and shelter.
9. oath 4. The monks had taken an oath to help
10. eligible those that need help.
5. They learned that sometimes helping
Exercise 3 others means you must give more help than
1. I you first expected.
2. I
3. C
4. C
5. C
Exercise 4
1. arid
2. inland
3. drought
4. abbey
5. nonetheless
6. speculated
7. ample
8. adjoined
9. ragged
10. deprived
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Exercise 4
1. mythology
2. asserts
3. theoretical
4. radioactive
5. cognitive
6. celestial
7. diploma
8. relativity
9. keen
10. bachelors
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Exercise 3
1. b
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. c
Exercise 4
1. incentive
2. transaction
3. legislated
4. bribed
5. retail
6. administrator
7. headquarters
8. corrupt
9. legitimate
10. revenue
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Exercise 3
1. haste
2. significance
3. molecules
4. commenced
5. proximity
6. latter
7. synthetic
8. assess
9. remedy
10. pharmaceutical
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Exercise 2 Part B
1. b 1. Insight about the island and finding
2. c something to help him escape.
3. a 2. Because he wanted to make it home.
4. c 3. He dragged tree limbs and vines.
5. c 4. By keeping a good attitude.
6. a 5. He believes that optimism and ambition
7. d make anything possible.
8. b
9. a
10. b
Exercise 3
1. I
2. C
3. C
4. I
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. I
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. I
13. I
14. C
15. C
16. I
17. I
18. C
19. C
20. C
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Unit 7
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F Protists have a high tolerance for
1. temperate extreme conditions.
2. Celsius 2. T
3. parasite 3. F A protist splits its own nucleus in
4. aquatic fission.
5. bizarre 4. T
6. companion 5. T
7. biosphere
8. ecology Part B
9. vulnerable 1. The protest could be comfortable in water
10. feat that was 150 degrees Celsius.
2. Protists were the first life form on Earth.
Exercise 2 3. A protists releases nitrogen gas.
1. tolerance 4. It swims up to one and swallows it whole.
2. repetitive 5. A protists undergoes the reproductive
3. prominent process of fission
4. nucleus
5. coarse
Exercise 3
1. I
2. C
3. C
4. I
5. I
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. I
11. I
12. C
13. C
14. C
15. I
16. I
17. I
18. C
19. I
20. C
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Unit 8
Reading Comprehension
Exercise 1 Part A
1. a 1. T
2. c 2. F The hostile army wanted to dominate
3. b and oppress the people.
4. c 3. T
5. a 4. F The doctor showed the woman a dense
patch of edible plants.
Exercise 2 5. F The woman gave the doctor a ceramic
1. hostile bowl to show her thanks.
2. dominate
3. misconception Part B
4. culinary 1. He wanted to use a new medication to
5. medication treat the sick people.
6. prescription 2. She thought bread and water would be
7. edible enough for him.
8. peel 3. He wanted her to increase her son’s
9. malnutrition intake of vegetables.
10. intake 4. He gave her a prescription for pain
medicine.
Exercise 3 5. He wanted her to help her son stay
1. c healthy.
2. d
3. b
4. a
5. c
Exercise 4
1. I
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. I
6. C
7. C
8. I
9. I
10. I
11. C
12. I
13. I
14. C
15. C
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Unit 9
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F The mayor of Netherton didn’t
1. b want Joseph to impose his radical fad on the
2. a town.
3. b 2. T
4. c 3. F The mayor of Wilton couldn’t
5. c refute the fact that the machine had
drawbacks.
Exercise 2 4. T
1. c 5. T
2. a
3. d Part B
4. c 1. A large proportion of the people worked
5. b in weaving.
2. Cloth made by hand will soon be
Exercise 3 obsolete.
1. b 3. If he bought the machine, the people
2. d would lose their jobs.
3. a 4. He realized the machine could bring
4. c money and prestige.
5. a 5. Nobody bought the poor cloth from
Netherton anymore.
Exercise 4
1. C
2. I
3. C
4. I
5. C
Exercise 5
1. peninsula
2. diminish
3. dependence
4. drawbacks
5. proportion
6. components
7. impose
8. refuted
9. spectacular
10. benevolent
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Unit 10
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. b 2. F Bill was indifferent about the
2. a company’s success.
3. c 3. F Bill irrigated his crops as a precaution
4. a for the upcoming dry summer.
5. a 4. T
5. F ...and planted soy and cabbage.
Exercise 2
1. d Part B
2. a 1. “You’re crazy!”
3. b 2. Bill had contempt toward his job.
4. b 3. Bill was happy.
5. b 4. Buying land and tools
6. c 5. The simplicity of a life on a farm
7. d
8. b
9. a
10. d
Exercise 3
1. C
2. C
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. I
7. C
8. C
9. I
10. I
Exercise 4
1. soy
2. precaution
3. Accountants
4. monetary
5. preliminary
6. saturated
7. financed
8. capitalist
9. indifferent
10. dedicate
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Exercise 2 Part B
1. biography 1. The young Beethoven developed a
2. acute partiality for classical music.
3. aggression 2. He first learned to play the piano when he
4. virtue was five.
5. narrated 3. He began to cry.
6. partiality 4. His passion for music compelled him to
7. outdated keep performing.
8. legacy 5. It was one of the finest in history.
9. notorious
10. compel
Exercise 3
1. I
2. C
3. I
4. C
5. C
6. I
7. C
8. I
9. C
10. I
11. I
12. C
13. I
14. C
15. I
16. C
17. C
18. I
19. C
20. C
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Unit 13
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F Elvis possessed the criteria to be a
1. a great racing dog.
2. b 2. T
3. a 3. T
4. a 4. F In the interior the facility, there was
5. b a heap of bones and bread crusts for
consumption.
Exercise 2 5. T
1. brook
2. consumption Part B
3. pedestrians 1. His faculties were not as strong as they
4. escort used to be.
5. hound 2. Elvis was entitled to a better life.
6. faculty 3. He never lost a race in the northern
7. spectators hemisphere.
8. facility 4. Elvis was escorted to a beautiful facility.
9. impersonal 5. There was a sign on the external door that
10. considerate said, “Dogs Welcome!”
Exercise 3
1. b
2. d
3. c
4. d
5. d
Exercise 4
1. hounds
2. crust
3. spectator
4. ornaments
5. criteria
6. sanctuary
7. faculty
8. heap
9. brook
10. entitle
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Unit 14
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. c 2. F At first, Sam is a skeptic. He thinks
2. a the assignment will be easy.
3. c 3. F When Sam goes into the kitchen, he
4. b can’t read the newspaper.
5. a 4. T
6. b 5. F Without his sense of sight, Sam has
7. a worse spatial awareness and isn’t able to
8. d coordinate his movements easily.
9. b
10. a Part B
1. According to the teacher, the premise of
Exercise 2 the experiment is to help the students
1. b understand what it’s like to be blind.
2. a 2. Sam realized how important hearing was
3. a for blind people.
4. c 3. Sam wasn’t able to perform
5. b simultaneous activities because he had to
make sure he was safe first.
Exercise 3 4. Sam noticed that the bud seemed to be
1. I covered with wax.
2. I 5. It showed him sight was an asset that
3. C should be appreciated and taught him to
4. C revere the talents of blind people.
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. I
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. I
13. I
14. C
15. C
16. C
17. C
18. I
19. C
20. C
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Unit 15
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. c 2. T
2. b 3. F When Ernest saw the man standing
3. c next to the mast, he decided to help him out
4. d of his dilemma.
5. a 4. T
5. F Ernest had the innate desire to help
Exercise 2 others.
1. inferred
2. adequate Part B
3. innate 1. There was an elaborate painting of a
4. facilitate naval battle on the side of his boat.
5. pouch 2. Their clothes were saturated with
6. update seawater.
7. fleet 3. Ernest thought the boy was suffering
8. saturated from nausea.
9. mast 4. There were several large fish in a pouch
10. inflated in the boat.
5. Ernest learned it better not to offer help
Exercise 3 unless it was asked for.
1. b
2. a
3. c
4. c
5. a
6. b
7. a
8. c
9. d
10. c
Exercise 4
1. I
2. I
3. I
4. C
5. C
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Unit 16
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F There is no archeological evidence
1. d that the Chinese actually made parachutes.
2. c 2. F A Da Vinci drawing of a parachute
3. a corresponds with modern parachute design.
4. b 3. T
5. b 4. F He used two umbrellas to restrict his
speed as he traveled to the gound.
Exercise 2 5. T
1. courtyard
2. chaotic Part B
3. corresponded 1. Sebastian used umbrellas because he had
4. cited a small budget.
5. fraud 2. Sebastian thought that a parachute would
restrict the jumper from gaining too much
Exercise 4 speed as they fell.
1. C 3. Sebastian jumped off a tall building on a
2. I French estate and landed safely in the
3. C courtyard.
4. I 4. Jean-Pierre was a proponent of using
5. C parachutes to jump out hot air balloons
6. C instead of using them to jump out of burning
7. I buildings.
8. C 5. Jean-Pierre first used the parachute when
9. C he had a chaotic experience and the balloon
10. I he was riding in burst.
11. C
12. I
13. I
14. C
15. I
Exercise 3
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. a
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Unit 17 15. C
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F The principal hung the painting in front
1. b of the office as a stimulus for the students to
2. d play sports.
3. a 2. T
4. c 3. F Billy was implicated because a fellow
5. b student said she saw him do it.
4. T
Exercise 2 5. F The principal threatened to terminate
1. a Billy’s education if his parents didn’t pay
2. c for the painting.
3. b
4. b Part B
5. b 1. The principal said that Billy was a
6. a chronic liar.
7. c 2. His suspicion was that the tape from the
8. c security cameras would show who really did
9. a the crime.
10. b 3. The videotape showed another boy
Exercise 3 leaving graffiti on the painting, holding a
1. graduated knife by the shaft and stabbing it, then using
2. donor the knife to sever the string that held it up.
3. tuition 4. The attorney suggested that the boy
4. stimulus responsible needed discipline.
5. implicated 5. Billy said he wanted to major in law and
6. graffiti became an attorney so he could be a
7. chronic guardian of justice like Mr. Meyers.
8. discipline
9. gossip
10. terminate
Exercise 4
1. C
2. I
3. I
4. C
5. I
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. I
12. C
13. I
14. C
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Unit 18
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. d 2. F The prisoner was led from the
2. a compound to the arena.
3. c 3. F While he meditated, the soldier was
4. a not distracted by his opponent.
5.c 4. F The king gave the brave soldier
amnesty.
Exercise 2 5. T
1. b
2. b Part B
3. a 1. The captive seemed like he was dumb
4. c because he was quiet.
5. d
6. c 2. Making captives fight one another was
7. a commonplace during the reign of the enemy
8. a king.
9. c 3. His opponent was skilled in the realm of
10. d sword fighting.
4. The soldier was nicked on the cheek.
5. The quiet soldier proved that peace can
Exercise 3 conquer violence.
1. b
2. b
3. d
4. b
5. a
6. d
7. c
8. a
9. a
10. c
Exercise 4
1. C
2. I
3. C
4. I
5. C
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Exercise 2 Part B
1. secondhand 1. She had to steer the boat back to the dock
2. dock to find help.
3. distort 2. She pulled up the anchor with all of her
4. fore might.
5. accordingly 3. They painted the name on the fore of the
6. context ship
7. intricate 4. She was trying to offset the wind.
8. overlap 5. It was to prove to her that she was
9. designate capable and important.
10. grease
Exercise 3
1. C
2. C
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. I
7. I
8. C
9. I
10. I
11. C
12. C
13. C
14. I
15. C
16. C
17. I
18. C
19. I
20. C
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Unit 20
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. b 2. F Chips express the aggregate number
2. b of immune and infected cells in a ratio.
3. a 3. T
4. c 4. T
5. a 5. F Putting microchips in humans is
becoming more prevalent.
Exercise 2
1. viral Part B
2. antibiotic 1. The special magnet copies the chip’s data.
3. database 2. Microchips hold about the same amount
4. ratio of data as most computers.
5. phase 3. The next phase of the process involves
6. spiral putting it underneath the person’s skin.
7. magnet 4. Microchips scan the patient’s body.
8. input 5. Medicine and computer technology
9. prevalent complement each other.
10. immune
Exercise 3
1. prevalent
2. phase
3. viral
4. antibiotics
5. complement
6. input
7. database
8. pinch
9. metabolism
10. spiral
Exercise 4
1. C
2. I
3. C
4. C
5. I
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. I
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Exercise 2 Part B
1. b 1. Alice wasn’t interested in French.
2. d 2. Alice felt very messy next to her.
3. b 3. In the past they’d always told each other
4. c everything in detail.
5. c 4. Before their birthday, they’d talk all night
6.d long.
7.d 5. It’s totally plausible for twins to have
8.c different interests.
9.b
10.a
Exercise 3
1. I
2. I
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. I
9. C
10. I
11. C
12. C
13. C
14. I
15. I
16. C
17. I
18. I
19. C
20. C
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Exercise 2 Part B
1. manufactures 1. “Make the Earth a better place.”
2. mechanisms 2. Jack stood up to give a speech.
3. administration 3. We can fix things if we all work together.
4. cholesterol 4. The workers threatened to quit.
5. deceptive 5. Since I can’t afford to lose all my
6. explicit workers, I guess we’ll just have to fix
7. coalition things.
8. prone
9. framework
10. straightforward
Exercise 3
1. C
2. C
3. I
4. C
5. I
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. I
12. C
13. C
14. I
15. C
16. I
17. C
18. I
19. C
20. I
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Exercise 3
1. a
2. c
3. c
4. a
5. b
Exercise 4
1. crescent
2. roamed
3. craters
4. breadth
5. fragment
6. atom
7. embedded
8. solitary
9. radiates
10. status
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Unit 25
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. F The executive did not care about…
1. a 2. T
2. b 3. T
3. b 4. F The executive walked up the steep
4. c incline of the jungle’s hills.
5. a 5. F The executive’s stereotype of the
primate was wrong.
Exercise 2
1. canyon Part B
2. fatigue 1. The honey on the twig that made it sticky
3. stereotype enough to capture termites.
4. primitive
5. trail 2. Fatigue and hunger weakened him.
6. aesthetic 3. Because he had a bias against the
7. termites primitive ways of the monkey, he had gone
8. twig hungry.
9. creek 4. He used the twig like it was a drill.
10. welfare 5. He never perceived that his arrogant
attitude was the cause of all his problems.
Exercise 3
1. a
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. c
6. d
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. d
Exercise 4
1. twigs
2. sticky
3. primitive
4. primates
5. fatigue
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Unit 26
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. b 2. T
2. a 3. F In Dano’s summary, he told Cosmo to
3. b keep his body horizontal against the winds
4. c of the Pacific Ocean.
5. a 4. F Cosmo flapped his wings and orbited
the globe.
Exercise 2 5. F Cosmo hummed a tune while he flew
1. globe and enjoyed the view.
2. behalf
3. rite Part B
4. overview 1. Cosmo’s inward thoughts about falling
5. provided were no longer relevant.
6. loaf 2. Dano told Cosmo that the mountain tops
7. inward will look like loaves of bread.
8. relevant 3. “I’ll do my best.”
9. oracles 4. The rivers of the world would look like
10. orbit pieces of blue string.
5. He declared Cosmo a man.
Exercise 3
1. a
2. b
3. d
4. a
5. c
Exercise 4
1. previous
2. oracle
3. horizontal
4. preview
5. loaf
6. inward
7. hum
8. provide
9. stall
10. glacier
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Exercise 3
1. C
2. C
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. I
10. C
11. C
12. I
13. I
14. I
15. C
16. I
17. C
18. I
19. I
20. C
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Exercise 3
1. I
2. C
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. I
9. I
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. I
14. C
15. I
16. C
17. C
18. I
19. C
20. C
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Unit 29
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. a 2. T
2. b 3. F Jen bumped into the fossil of an
3. a authentic elephant tusk.
4. b 4. F Jen was chosen because she was
5. a friendly, punctual, and had a great attitude.
5. T
Exercise 2
1. tusks Part B
2. antique 1. Jen hoped that the rest of the tour would
3. monarch go better.
4. Majesty 2. Jen wanted to talk about the chronology
5. applicants of Ancient Egypt.
6. register 3. She sneezed and tore a page of the epic.
7. authentic 4. Jen thought she was a horrible tour guide.
8. refund 5. Hard work
9. fossil
10. artifact
Exercise 3
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. d
5. b
Exercise 4
1. tusk
2. authentic
3. recruit
4. punctual
5. chronology
6. fossil
7. excerpt
8. lyric
9. epic
10. renown
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Unit 30
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1 1. T
1. b 2. F ... by how high the water had risen.
2. b 3. T
3. b 4. T
4. a 5. F ... reunion with her dog and cow.
5. c
6. a Part B
7. b 1. The man turned into a hybrid of a human
8. a and a fish.
9. b 2. She was overwhelmed by how high the
10. b water had risen.
3. He asked for the first living thing that
Exercise 2 crosses the bridge.
1. sociable 4. She shivered because she realized that he
2. tramped had taken advantage of her innocence and
3. crafted rigged a trap for her.
4. rigged 5. He called her a “crook.”
5. merged
Exercise 3
1. d
2. c
3. a
4. a
5. b
6. b
7. c
8. a
9. d
10. d
Exercise 4
1. I
2. C
3. I
4. I
5. C
6. C
7. I
8. C
9. C
10. I
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