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Unit 2 7. hut/wheat
8. caretaker/awkward
Exercise 1
9. overlook/ inferior
Part A
10. hatred/satisfactory
1. c
2. a
Reading Comprehension
3. d
Part A
4. b
1. T
5. b
2. F / The shepherd couldn't take the
sheep outside because it was too cold.
Part B
3. F / The shepherd gave the wild
1. c
sheep more wheat than his own.
2. b
4. T
3. a
5. T
4. b
6. F / The shepherd realized that he
5. d
was wrong.
Exercise 2
Part B
1. b, d
1. c
2. a, b
2. a
3. b, d
3. d
4. b, d
4. d
5. a, c
Exercise 3
1. newcomers/fake
2. acquire/lodge
3. repay/neglected
4. discouraged/offenses
5. shepherd/venturing
6. deceive/ridiculous
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Unit 3 9. decent/valentine
10. disgrace/sensation
Exercise 1
Part A
Reading Comprehension
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. b
2. F / Mike found a bunch of wood
4. a
boards.
5. a
3. F / Joe was not a decent person at
the beginning of the story.
Part B
4. T
1. a
5. F / Mike used to put together the
2. c
loose pieces.
3. b
6. T
4. a
5. d
Part B
6. a
1. c
7. b
2. a
8. d
3. d
9. b
4. b
10. c
Exercise 2
1. ax/pine
2. tease/offend
3. loose/overnight
4. chore/grateful
5. alley/sled
6. elbow/scar
7. bunch/persist
8. kids/irritate
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Unit 4 9. dipped/sneezing
10. passion/pillow
Exercise 1
Part A
Reading Comprehension
1. c
Part A
2. a
1. T
3. d
2. F / Tina wore a dress made of wool.
4. c
3. T
5. b
4. F / Tina had a passion for flowers.
5. T
Part B
6. F / Wilma gave Tina some cake for
1. b
dessert.
2. c
3. a
Part B
4. c
1. d
5. c
2. c
6. a
3. a
7. a
4. d
8. b
9. a
10. c
Exercise 2
1. distant/compact
2. eclipse/pulse
3. mankind/grace
4. spice/desserts
5. bloom/decay
6. whistled/refresh
7. wool/curls
8. leisure/fairy
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Unit 5 8. flashlight
9. curse
10. hood
Exercise 1
1. cursed/scared Reading Comprehension
2. cemetery/skeletons
Part A
3. fancy/hood
1. F / People from places like Ireland,
4. flashlight/ riddles
China, Egypt, and Mexico believed
5. disguise/wicked
souls needed food.
6. nourish/rotted
2. F / Many cultures believed that
7. starving/spoiled
souls needed food for their journey to
8. inhabitant/shortly
heaven.
9. publication/thrill
10. acquainted/pirates
3. F / Housewives gave children food if
they sang or danced.
Exercise 2 4. T
1. d 5. T
2. a 6. F / Inhabitants from villages started
3. b trick-or-treating in the early 1900s.
4. c
5. d Part B
1. b
Exercise 3 2. c
1. shortly 3. c
2. acquaint 4. a
3. riddles
4. publication
5. inhabitant
6. scared
7. fancy
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Unit 6 4. a
5. d
Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. senator, districts
Part A
2. tapped, skull
1. T
3. worm, underneath
2. T
4. consoled, broadcast
3. T
5. tremendous, executed
4. F The cook found a pipe in the
6. bulletin, endure
closet.
7. grasp, stir
5. F The cook knew he was going to
8. alerted, rear
hit the worm hard.
9. drawer, chop
6. F The worm slid off the senator's
10. closet, bump
head.
Exercise 2
Part B
1. consoled
1. a
2. broadcast
2. d
3. closet
3. c
4. underneath
4. c
5. senator
6. tremendous
7. bump
8. district
9. executed
10. chopped
Exercise 3
1. b
2. a
3. c
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Unit 7 8. d
9. b
10. d
Exercise 1
Part A
Reading Comprehension
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. d
2. F / Her owners did not want her
4. a
because she could not hear. So they
5. b
abandoned her.
3. T
Part B
4. T
1. b
5. F / A new law made all dogs wear a
2. b
collar and get shots.
3. c
6. F / She couldn’t bark.
4. d
5. a
Part B
6. a
1. a
7. d
2. b
8. c
3. d
9.a
4. c
10. c
Exercise 2
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. a
6. c
7. a
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Unit 8 4. d
5. b
Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. anniversary, elegant
Part A
2. arithmetic, upwards
1. F / Joe and Stella were poor, but
3. ashamed, couch
not ashamed.
4. burst, dripped
2. T
5. carpenter, sew
3. F / They used coal to heat their
6. highlands, coal
home.
7. needle, ivory
4. F / Together, they trimmed the
8. mill, threads
bushes outside to look nice.
9. polish, fabric
5. T
10. shed, trim
6. T
Exercise 2
Part B
1. arithmetic
1. d
2. thread
2. d
3. trim
3. a
4. fabric
4. a
5. upwards
6. shed
7. highlands
8. mill
9. sew
10. polished
Exercise 3
1. d
2. b
3. a
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Unit 9 8. rival
9. ailed
10. torture
Exercise 1
Part A
Reading Comprehension
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. a
2. F / Dalton was a nice boy, but
4. d
sometimes the other boys made fun of
5. b
him because he was so tall and skinny.
3. F / Dalton pretended that a bee
Part B
stung him so he wouldn’t have to play.
1. d
4. F / Dalton’s biggest problem was
2. c
Mitch.
3. c
5. F / Mitch was dominant in every
4. c
event.
5. d
6. T
6. a
7. a
Part B
8. d
1. d
9. b
2. b
10. b
3. a
4.c
Exercise 2
1. boasting
2. bully
3. carbohydrate
4. defeated
5. stinging
6. dial
7. nod
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Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. a
Part A
2. d
1. T
3. b
2. F / Grace was bald and had no
4. d
wrinkles.
5. c
3. T
4. T
Exercise 2
5. F / When Anna came back from her
1. b
room, she found that Grace had
2. d
vanished.
3. a
6. F / Anna called aloud for Grace to
4. b
find her.
5. d
6. b
Part B
7. b
1. c
8. d
2. a
9. c
3. c
10. a
4. c
Exercise 3
1. aloud, nowhere
2. infant, wrinkles
3. divorced, absence
4. reproduce, urgent
5. sucked, patted
6. bald, rhymes
7. vanished, crept
8. wagon, kidnap
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Exercise 2
Part B
1. c
1. a
2. a
2. c
3. b
3. b
4. d
4. b
5. a
Exercise 3
1. ecosystem, pond
2. recited, dialect
3. abnormal, dwarf
4. manuscript, impatient
5. proverbs, patience
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Unit 12 8. scent
9. scatter
10. puff
Exercise 1
Part A
1. b Reading Comprehension
2. b Part A
3. c 1. T
4. d 2. T
7. d hands.
8. c 5. T
9. b 6. T
10. d
Part B
Part B 1. c
1. d 2. b
2. a 3. d
3. c 4. a
4. b
5. c
Exercise 2
1. beam
2. triumph
3. caution
4. exploded
5. rag
6. swift
7. casual
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Unit 13 3. b
4. b
5. c
Exercise 1
1. voyage / vessel
Reading Comprehension
2. port / aboard
Part A
3. sweat / sheriff
1. T
4. millionaire / fountain
2. F / Dan pulled the trigger on his
5. harbor / worship
gun and shot bullets in the air to scare
6. inhabit / enforce
people in the town.
7. trigger / bullets
3. T
8. unify / march
4. T
9. startle / devil
5. F / Dan was sent on a voyage to the
10. bitter / drift
middle of the ocean.
6. F / Every person who inhabited
Exercise 2
Ocean-town disliked Dan.
1. voyage
2. aboard
Part B
3. trigger
1. b
4. sheriff
2. c
5. fountain
3. d
6. startle
4. c
7. unify
8. harbor
9. inhabit
10. devil
Exercise 3
1. c
2. a
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Unit 14 9. a
10. d
Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. a
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. b
2. F / The chef was a horrible person
4. d
that everyone hated.
5. a
3. T
4. T
Exercise 2
5. F / The chef was very impolite and
1. luxury
always scolded his workers.
2. crown
6. T
3. chef
4. bleed
Part B
5. horrible
1. c
6. impolite
2. d
7. kneel
3. b
8. massive
4. c
9. bond
10. fiber
Exercise 3
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. a
5. d
6. d
7. a
8. c
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Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. b, c
Part A
2. a. c
1. F / The pharaoh’s party was a great
3. a, b
affair.
4. c, d
2. T
5. c, d
3. T
4. F / Monkey repeated the routine for
Exercise 2
four days.
1. diameter
5. T
2. theft
6. F/ Monkey asked the pharaoh,
3. scheme
“Pardon?”
4. bless
5. famine
Part B
6. exploited
1. b
7. slim
2. b
8. routine
3. a
9. Pardon
4. c
10. pharaohs
Exercise 3
1. ripe, roasted
2. Pardon, theft
3. famine, pharaoh
4. stove, cereal
5. harvest, slim
6. nut, diameter
7. affair, merry
8. routine, bless
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Unit 16
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 1
1. T
1. b
2. F / The boy leaning against the pole
2. a
complimented Matthew’s jacket.
3. b
3. T
4. b
4. T
5. a
5. F / Matthew wants to work in
journalism when he grows up.
Exercise 2
6. T
1. a
2. b
Part B
3. a
1. c
4. a
2. c
5. b
3. b
4. c
Exercise 3
1. adolescents
2. sorrow
3. journalism
4. swell
5. hindered
6. punishment
7. slices
8. straws
9. liberty
10. tidy
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Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. b
Part A
2. d
1. F / The trip to find the magic cup
3. d
was very difficult.
4. b
2. T
5. a
3. T
4. F / A superstition said that anyone
Exercise 2
who retrieved the magic cup would
1. miserable
get their greatest wish.
2. agency
5. T
3. shallow
6. T
4. confine
5. ash
Part B
6. navigate
1. d
7. originated
2. d
8. affection
3. b
9. vibrating
4. a
10. sympathy
Exercise 3
1. superstition / originated
2. agency / dismissed
3. slope / lava
4. fate / vibrated
5. confine / sympathy
6. ash / erupted
7. miserable / retrieve
8. affection / wander
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Unit 18 4. retreated
5. troops
6. armor
Exercise 1
7. steep
1. a, d
8. independence
2. a, b
9. invasion
3. c, d
10. boom
4. b, c
5. a, c
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Exercise 2
1. T
Part A
2. T
1. c
3. F / The knight wore armor, and the
2. a
warriors used spears.
3. d
4. T
4. b
5. T
5. c
6. F / The flames scared the enemy.
Part B
Part B
1. a
1. a
2. c
2. b
3. a
3. b
4. d
4. c
5. b
Exercise 3
1. yield
2. spear
3. thunder
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Exercise 3
1. daisy, mist
2. dispute, confronted
3. bench, sighed
4. horror, incident
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Unit 20 9. b
10. a
Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. a
Part A
2. b
1. T
3. d
2. F / Mother Wolf knew how to seize
4. a
prey.
5. c
3. T
4. F / Mother Wolf made a den
Exercise 2
beneath the tree.
1. magnificent
5. T
2. necessity
6. T
3. supreme
4. outcome
Part B
5. evident
1. b
6. dissatisfied
2. c
7. seize
3. d
8. dawn
4. d
9. pile
10. cub
Exercise 3
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. a
7. a
8. d
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Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. b
Part A
2. a
1. T
3. d
2. T
4. d
3. F / The old man’s joints were stiff
5. d
from sitting under a tree for a long
time.
Exercise 2
4. F / The old man’s instincts told him
1. dim
there was something in the forest.
2. accustomed
5. T
3. leak
6. T
4. stiff
5. clan
Part B
6. astonished
1. d
7. feast
2. b
8. glowing
3. c
9. tragic
4. b
10. instincts
Exercise 1
1. fable, astonished
2. banged, instincts
3. feast, accustomed
4. physician, joint
5. emphasis, affirm
6. hollow, stiff
7. clan, tunes
8. dim, stroked
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Unit 25 6. circulated
7. resigned
8. frost
Exercise 1
9. trembled
Part A
10. lieutenant
1. a
2. a
Reading Comprehension
3. d
Part A
4. c
1. F / The sun’s rays don’t shine on
5. b
Greenland for three months.
2. F / He wanted to start a dynasty in
Part B
his name in Greenland.
1. c
3. F / Erik the Red’s consequent
2. b
punishment for killing his neighbor
3. b
was to leave Iceland.
4. a
4. T
5. d
5. T
6. F / Erik gave it the name Greenland
Exercise 2
because he wanted many people to
1. a, d
settle there.
2. b, c
3. a, d
Part B
4. a, b
1. c
5. b, d
2. b
3. b
Exercise 3
4. b
1. fraction
2. dynasty
3. ray
4. illusion
5. via
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Exercise 1
Reading Comprehension
1. a, d
Part A
2. b, c
1. F / The brothers blended flour and
3. a, d
ginger together when trying to make
4. a, c
cookies.
5. b, c
2. T
3. F / The model rocket worked after
Exercise 2
the wires were moved.
1. disgusting
4. F / The mailbox collapsed because
2. collapsed
the rocket curved into it.
3. wiped
5. T
4. curved
6. T
5. embraced
6. autumn
Part B
7. wire
1. a
8. altered
2. b
9. drain
3. d
10. receipt
4. d
Exercise 3
1. collapsed, altered
2. ginger, blend
3. autumn, envied
4. aside, wires
5. crushed, receipt
6. fireworks, fuse
7. paste, wiped
8. curved, embraced
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Part B
Part B
1. a
1. a
2. a
2. a
3. d
3. b
4. a
4. b
5. c
Exercise 2
1. Meanwhile
2. ambassador
3. necklace
4. acknowledge
5. insult
6. conquered
7. precious
8. stack
9. rumors
10. prejudice
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Exercise 2
1. postponed
2. congress
3. merchant
4. institution
5. chemist
6. dairy
7. splash
8. suburb
9. tide
10. ache
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Exercise 2
1. traced, bomb
2. circumstances, nuclear
3. glance, certificate
4. grief, coffin
5. devastated, cope
6. rotated, souvenir
7. criticism, frowned
8. gazed, microscope
9. license, submarine
10. portrayed, groom
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Part B
Part B
1. d
1. a
2. a
2. c
3. d
3. c
4. d
4. a
5. a
Exercise 2
1. spine
2. basin
3. cupboard
4. hopped
5. emerged
6. hook
7. caterpillar
8. strip
9. sleeves
10. stain
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