4000 Essential English Words 1 Answer Key

Unit 1
Exercise 1
Part A
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. a

Unit 2
Exercise 1
Part A
1. a, b
2. a, d
3. b, d
4. c, d
5. a, d

Part B
1. c
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. d

Part B
1. create
2. adventure
3. approach
4. secret
5. project

Exercise 2
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. b
10. a

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. c
5. The lion saw his own face in the water.

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. d
3. d
4. a
5. Mia and Liz went into the laboratory
when Mias father left the laboratory to
eat dinner.

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Unit 3

Unit 4

Exercise 1
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. c
6. d
7. b
8. d
9. a
10. c

Exercise 1
Part A
1. spread
2. content
3. shake
4. expected
5. avoided
Part B
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. d
5. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. a
5. b
6. a
7. b
8. b
9. a
10. a

Exercise 3
1. ever / Describe
2. chart / aliens
3. planet / universe
4. solve / fail
5. Several / view
Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. d
3. d
4. c
5. He viewed Mars on the trip.

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. d
5. They said the bell made people avoid
him.

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Unit 5

Unit 6

Exercise 1
1. d
2. c
3. d
4. b
5. c
6. d
7. c
8. d
9. b
10. a

Exercise 1.
Part A
1. return
2. wise
3. pet
4. weather
5. face
Part B
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Exercise 2
Part A
1. d
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. b

ghost / fright
dead / upset
reached / advantage
escape / distance
individual / community

Exercise 2.
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. a

Part B
1. normal
2. wild
3. hurt
4. relax
5. field
Reading Comprehension
1. d
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. She requested, Will you carry me
home?

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. She lived by a large river.

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Unit 7

Unit 8

Exercise 1
Part A
1. c
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. b

Exercise 1.
1. familiar
2. necessary
3. theory
4. purpose
5. encourage
6. accept
7. balance
8. pattern
9. contrast
10. single

Part B
1. allowed
2. harm
3. famous
4. claim
5. divided

Exercise 2.
Part A
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. a
5. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. a
8. b
9. b
10. b

Part B
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. a

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. d
5. He would have to announce who would
become king.

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. c
3. c
4. d
5. She arranged her hair and wore nice
clothes.

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Unit 9

Unit 10

Exercise 1
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. b
6. a
7. b
8. c
9. b
10. a

Exercise 1.
1. essential
2. benefit
3. trouble
4. certain
5. function
6. site
7. image
8. separate
9. remain
10. tail

Exercise 2
1. b
2. c
3. b
4. d
5. c

Exercise 2.
Part A
1. effect / benefit
2. immediate / primary
3. proud / rested
4. far / separate
5. guard / remain

Exercise 3
1. beach / wave
2. island / ocean
3. fix / damage
4. rock / still
5. throw / step

Part B
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. a
5. a

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. b
3. c
4. d
5. Some starfish went back into the water,
and they were safe.

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. He only rested a few eyes at a time.
The others stayed awake.

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Unit 11

Unit 12

Exercise 1.
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. c
5. d

Exercise 1.
Part A
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. c

Exercise 2.
1. ground
2. spend time
3. sail
4. wake
5. forest

Part B
1. neighbor
2. magazine
3. professional
4. compared
5. attitude

Exercise 3.
1. prepare
2. serious
3. strange
4. conversation
5. collect
6. introduce
7. decision
8. truth
9. compete
10. asleep

Exercise 2.
1. b
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. a
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. b
10. b

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. She dreamed about a man with brown
hair and brown eyes. It was the man she
would wed.

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. b
5. His friends felt excited about seeing his
painting.

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Unit 13

Unit 14

Exercise 1:
1. b
2. a
3. d
4. d
5. a

Exercise 1.
Part A.
1. exam
2. magical
3. technology
4. outline
5. descriptions

Exercise 2:
1. spot
2. feed
3. cell
4. whole
5. correct

Part B.
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. a
5. b

Exercise 3:
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. a.

Exercise 2.
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. a
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. b
10. a

Exercise 4:
1. cell / structure
2. lord / owe
3. position / spot
4. whole / hole
5. feed / crop

Reading Comprehension.
1. d
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. Her parents made her join the
basketball team.

Reading Comprehension:
1. d
2. b
3. c
4. d
5. At the end of the week the lord will
increase how much money he has to pay.

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Unit 15

Unit 16

Exercise 1
1. b
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. a
7. b
8. c
9. d
10. a

Exercise 1:
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. d
5. c
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. c

Exercise 2
Part A
1. across
2. respond
3. race
4. observed
5. risk

Exercise 2:
1. a / d
2. b / d
3. b / c
4. a / b
5. a / b
Exercise 3:
1. academy
2. process
3. maybe
4. theater
5. flat

Part B
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. b

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. Jeff was going to a concert.

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. The rabbit saw the turtle almost at the
finish line.

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Unit 17

Unit 18

Exercise 1
Part A
1. d
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. d

Exercise 1
1. b
2. c
3. b
4. c
5. c
6. d
7. a
8. d
9. c
10. d

Part B
1. fair
2. waste
3. disappear
4. whether
5. determine

Exercise 2
Part A
1. recommend
2. argue
3. products
4. communicate
5. offer

Exercise 2
Part A
1. hill
2. solution
3. response
4. puddles
5. appreciate

Part B
1. treated
2. fresh
3. select
4. dish
5. gathered

Part B
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. a

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. I recommend doing some work, said
the little red chicken. Use a tool to plant
your own wheat.

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. b
3. b
4. c
5. It doesnt matter whether you want to
fill it or not. You already did.

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Unit 19

Unit 20

Exercise 1.
Part A.
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. d
5. b

Exercise 1
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. c
Exercise 2
1. meat
2. destroy
3. serve
4. regard
5. war

Part B.
1. wood
2. policy
3. staff
4. toward
5. speech

Exercise 3
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. a
9. b
10. b

Exercise 2.
Part A.
1. speech
2. bother
3. wood
4. staff
5. alive
Part B.
1. speech
2. policy
3. staff
4. bones
5. mentioned
6. doubt
7. injustice
8. conclusion
9. however
10. bothered

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. He turned away and went home.

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. c
3. a
4. c
5. The weather became very bad.

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Unit 21

Unit 22

Exercise 1.
1. locate
2. clerk
3. hero
4. pain
5. hurried

Exercise 1
Part A
1. a
2. d
3. c
4. a
5. c

Exercise 2.
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. b

Part B
1. b
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. b

Exercise 3.
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. a
9. a
10. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. a

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. Katy played games, read books, and got
flowers for patients.

Reading Comprehension
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. If anything strange occurs, call us. If
you help us catch the thief, youll earn a
reward.

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Unit 23

Unit 24

Exercise 1:
1. matches
2. remove
3. average
4. sounded
5. advance
6. member
7. athlete
8. course
9. passenger
10. personality

Exercise 1
Part A
1. d
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. c
Part B
1. strike
2. exercise
3. perform
4. passage
5. pressure

Exercise 2:
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. b

Exercise 2
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. a
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. a

Exercise 3:
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. d
Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. It was a course on water safety. They
learned how to be safe passengers on a
boat.

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. He looked at Tim and said, I thought I
was smart, but I learned a new term today:
friendship.

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Unit 25

Unit 26

Exercise 1
Part A
1. d
2. c
3. a
4. c
5. b

Exercise 1
Part A
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. c

Part B
1. produce
2. range
3. populate
4. sign
5. period

Part B
1. react
2. society
3. neither
4. final
5. prove

Exercise 2
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. a
7. b
8. b
9. b
10. a

Exercise 2
Part A
1. advice / suggest
2. attention / situated
3. standard / dropped
4. attracted / reacted
5. further / along
Part B
1. a
2. a
3. a
4. a
5. b

Reading Comprehension
1. d
2. a
3. a
4. c
5. The videos features made Joe associate
trash with hurting people and their
environment.

Reading Comprehension
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. They laughed at Tom and Archie. They
started to throw stones.

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Unit 27

Unit 28

Exercise 1:
1. b
2. a
3. b
4. d
5. d
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. d
10. d

Exercise 1:
1. professor
2. barely
3. predict
4. garbage
5. list
6. boring
7. band
8. schedule
9. message
10. rush

Exercise 2:
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. a

Exercise 2:
1. b, c
2. a, c
3. c, d
4. a, c
5. a, d

Exercise 3:
1. gift / value
2. coast / desert
3. hunger / bite
4. tour / journey
5. quite / Examine

Exercise 3:
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. a

Reading Comprehension
1. b
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. He asks the bug a question first.

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. To tell him that they would be late.

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Unit 29

Unit 30

Exercise 1.
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. a
5. d
6. c
7. b
8. c
9. d
10. c

Exercise 1
1. c
2. b
3. c
4. b
5. d
6. b
7. a
8. d
9. b
10. b

Exercise 2.
Part A.
1. advertise
2. major
3. competition
4. skills
5. vote

Exercise 2
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. a
5. b
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. a
10. b

Part B.
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. b

Reading Comprehension
1. d
2. a
3. c
4. a
5. Later, the man returned to trick more
people. Beth saw him, and the memory of
the cat came back.

Reading Comprehension
1. a
2. d
3. c
4. c
5. The sun was inside the bag!

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