4000 Essential English Words 3 Answer Key - Watermarked

4000 Essential English Words 3 – Answer Key
Unit 1 Reading Comprehension

Part A
Exercise 1 1. F / Marcus occupies a house with
Part A his family.
1. d 2. T
2. b 3. F / A problem arises for Marcus
3. b because the blacksmith didn't pay him.
4. b 4. T
5. d
his work.
o m
5. F / Marcus wasn't compensated for
Part B
1. a .f c
6. T
2. d
h a Part B
3. d
4. b
e s 1. d
2. c
5. d
n k 3. c
4. b
Exercise 2
.e
1. b
2. c w
3. c w
4. d
5. b
w
6. b
7. d
8. c
9. a
10. c
1
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
Part B o m
2. F / The shepherd couldn't take the
sheep outside because it was too cold.
1. c
.f c
3. F / The shepherd gave the wild
sheep more wheat than his own.
2. b
3. a
h a 4. T
4. b
5. d
e s 5. T
6. F / The shepherd realized that he
Exercise 2 n k was wrong.
1. b, d
.e Part B
1. c
2. a, b
w 2. a
3. b, d
4. b, d w 3. d
5. a, cw 4. d
Exercise 3
1. newcomers/fake
2. acquire/lodge
3. repay/neglected
4. discouraged/offenses
5. shepherd/venturing
6. deceive/ridiculous
2
Unit 3 9. decent/valentine
10. disgrace/sensation
Exercise 1
Part A
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. b
2. F / Mike found a bunch of wood
4. a
boards.
5. a
Part B o m
3. F / Joe was not a decent person at
the beginning of the story.
1. a
.f c
4. T
5. F / Mike used to put together the
2. c
3. b
h a loose pieces.
4. a
5. d
e s 6. T
6. a
7. b
n k Part B
1. c
8. d
.e 2. a
3. d
9. b
10. c w 4. b
w
w
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
3
Unit 4 9. dipped/sneezing
10. passion/pillow
Exercise 1
Part A
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
Part B
5. T
o m
4. F / Tina had a passion for flowers.
1. b
.f c
6. F / Wilma gave Tina some cake for
dessert.
2. c
3. a
h a
4. c
5. c
e s Part B
1. d
6. a
7. a
n k 2. c
3. a
8. b
.e 4. d
9. a
10. c w
w
w
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
4
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
6. nourish/rotted
souls needed food.
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2. F / Many cultures believed that
.f c
7. starving/spoiled
souls needed food for their journey to
8. inhabitant/shortly
heaven.
9. publication/thrill
10. acquainted/pirates
h a
Exercise 2 e s 3. F / Housewives gave children food if
they sang or danced.
1. d
n k 4. T
5. T
.e
2. a 6. F / Inhabitants from villages started
3. b trick-or-treating in the early 1900s.
4. c
w
5. d
w Part B
w
Exercise 3
1. b
2. c
1. shortly 3. c
2. acquaint 4. a
3. riddles
4. publication
5. inhabitant
6. scared
7. fancy
5
Unit 6 4. a
5. d
Exercise 1
1. senator, districts
Part A
2. tapped, skull
1. T
3. worm, underneath
2. T
4. consoled, broadcast
3. T
5. tremendous, executed
6. bulletin, endure
7. grasp, stir
closet.
o m
4. F The cook found a pipe in the
8. alerted, rear
.f c
5. F The cook knew he was going to
hit the worm hard.
9. drawer, chop
10. closet, bump
h a 6. F The worm slid off the senator's
Exercise 2
e s head.
1. consoled
2. broadcast n k Part B
1. a
3. closet
.e 2. d
3. c
4. underneath
w 4. c
w
5. senator
6. tremendous
7. bumpw
8. district
9. executed
10. chopped
Exercise 3
1. b
2. a
3. c
6
Unit 7 8. d
9. b
10. d
Exercise 1
Part A
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. d
2. F / Her owners did not want her
4. a
5. b
abandoned her.
o m
because she could not hear. So they
Part B
.f c
3. T
4. T
1. b
2. b
h a 5. F / A new law made all dogs wear a
3. c
4. d
e s collar and get shots.
6. F / She couldn’t bark.
5. a
6. a
n k Part B
7. d
.e 1. a
2. b
8. c
9.a w 3. d
10. c w 4. c
w
Exercise 2
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. a
6. c
7. a
7
Unit 8 4. d
5. b
Exercise 1
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
6. highlands, coal
7. needle, ivory
home.
o m
3. F / They used coal to heat their
8. mill, threads
.f c
4. F / Together, they trimmed the
bushes outside to look nice.
9. polish, fabric
10. shed, trim
h a 5. T
Exercise 2
e s 6. T
1. arithmetic
2. thread n k Part B
1. d
3. trim
.e 2. d
3. a
4. fabric
w 4. a
w
5. upwards
6. shed
w
7. highlands
8. mill
9. sew
10. polished
Exercise 3
1. d
2. b
3. a
8
Unit 9 8. rival
9. ailed
10. torture
Exercise 1
Part A
1. b
Part A
2. c
1. T
3. a
2. F / Dalton was a nice boy, but
4. d
5. b
o m
sometimes the other boys made fun of
him because he was so tall and skinny.
Part B
.f c
3. F / Dalton pretended that a bee
stung him so he wouldn’t have to play.
1. d
2. c
h a 4. F / Dalton’s biggest problem was
3. c
4. c
e s Mitch.
5. F / Mitch was dominant in every
5. d
6. a
n k event.
6. T
7. a
.e Part B
8. d
9. b w 1. d
10. b w 2. b
w
Exercise 2
3. a
4.c
1. boasting
2. bully
3. carbohydrate
4. defeated
5. stinging
6. dial
7. nod
9
Unit 10 9. relief, nap

10. blanket, imitating
Exercise 1
1. a
Part A
2. d
1. T
3. b
2. F / Grace was bald and had no
4. d
wrinkles.
5. c
Exercise 2
3. T
4. T
o m
1. b
.f c
5. F / When Anna came back from her
room, she found that Grace had
2. d
3. a
h a vanished.
4. b
5. d
e s 6. F / Anna called aloud for Grace to
find her.
6. b
7. b n k Part B
8. d
.e 1. c
2. a
9. c
w 3. c
10. a
w 4. c
w
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
10
Unit 11 6. pursuit, marsh

7. blossom, perfume
8. dishonest, fatal
Exercise 1
9. leaves, bamboo
Part A
10. wilderness, compass
1. c
2. b
3. a
Part A
4. c
5. d
1. T
o m
2. F / When people entered the Magic
Part B
.f c
Marsh, they never came out.
3. F / Peter drank some water and fell
1. d
2. a
h a asleep.
3. a
4. b
e s 4. T
5. F / Peter didn’t know the dwarf was
5. b
n k dishonest.
6. T
Exercise 2
.e Part B
1. c
w 1. a
2. a
3. b w 2. c
4. d
5. a
w 3. b
4. b
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
5. a
6. a
o m
3. F / You have to fasten the beam.
4. F / Sam washed the germs off his
7. d
8. c .f c
hands.
5. T
9. b
h a 6. T
10. d
e s Part B
Part B
1. d
n k 1. c
2. b
2. a
.e 3. d
4. a
3. c
4. b w
5. c
w
w
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
2. port / aboard
Part A
3. sweat / sheriff
1. T
4. millionaire / fountain
2. F / Dan pulled the trigger on his
5. harbor / worship
6. inhabit / enforce
o
people in the town.
m
gun and shot bullets in the air to scare
.f c
7. trigger / bullets
3. T
8. unify / march
4. T
9. startle / devil
10. bitter / drift
h a 5. F / Dan was sent on a voyage to the
Exercise 2 e s middle of the ocean.

6. F / Every person who inhabited
1. voyage
n k Ocean-town disliked Dan.
.e
2. aboard
Part B
3. trigger
1. b
4. sheriff
w 2. c
w
5. fountain
3. d
w
6. startle
7. unify
8. harbor
4. c
9. inhabit
10. devil
Exercise 3
1. c
2. a
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Unit 14 9. a
10. d
Exercise 1
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
o m
.f c
Exercise 2
5. F / The chef was very impolite and
1. luxury
always scolded his workers.
2. crown
3. chef
h a 6. T
4. bleed
5. horrible e s Part B
6. impolite
n k 1. c
2. d
.e
7. kneel
3. b
8. massive
4. c
9. bond
w
w
10. fiber
w
Exercise 3
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. a
5. d
6. d
7. a
8. c
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Unit 15 9. exploit, assembly

10. cheerful, scheme
Exercise 1
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
o m
4. F / Monkey repeated the routine for
.f c
Exercise 2
four days.
1. diameter
5. T
2. theft
3. scheme
h a 6. F/ Monkey asked the pharaoh,
4. bless
5. famine e s “Pardon?”
6. exploited
n k Part B
1. b
.e
7. slim
2. b
8. routine
3. a
9. Pardon
w 4. c
w
10. pharaohs
w
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
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
o m
5. F / Matthew wants to work in
journalism when he grows up.
.f c
Exercise 2
6. T
1. a
2. b
3. a
h a Part B
4. a
5. b e s 1. c
2. c
n k 3. b
4. c
.e
Exercise 3
1. adolescents
2. sorrow
w
w
3. journalism
w
4. swell
5. hindered
6. punishment
7. slices
8. straws
9. liberty
10. tidy
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Unit 17 9. remainder / shallow

10. navigate / spanned
Exercise 1
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
o m
4. F / A superstition said that anyone
.f c
Exercise 2
who retrieved the magic cup would
1. miserable
get their greatest wish.
2. agency
3. shallow
h a 5. T
4. confine
5. ash e s 6. T
6. navigate
n k Part B
1. d
.e
7. originated
2. d
8. affection
3. b
9. vibrating
w 4. a
w
10. sympathy
w
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
Part A
o m
.f c
Exercise 2
1. T
Part A
2. T
1. c
2. a
h a 3. F / The knight wore armor, and the
3. d
4. b e s warriors used spears.
4. T
5. c
n k 5. T
6. F / The flames scared the enemy.
Part B
.e Part B
1. a
w 1. a
2. c
w 2. b
3. a
4. d
5. b
w 3. b
4. c
Exercise 3
1. yield
2. spear
3. thunder
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Unit 19 5. pregnant, spare

6. revenge, plotted
7. stems, rage
Exercise 1
8. supper, tender
Part A
9. orphan, sneak
1. b
10. objects, shame
2. d
3. a
4. c
5. a
Part A
1. T
o m
Part B
.f c
2. T
3. F / The girl plotted to get revenge
1. b
2. a
h a against the farmer.
3. c
4. a
e s 4. F / The girl sighed because the
farmer wouldn’t give her a pear.
5. d
n k 5. T
6. F / The orphan hadn’t eaten supper
Exercise 2 .e for days.
1. b
w Part B
2. c
w 1. a
3. b
4. d
5. b
w 2. a
3. c
4. a
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
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
o m
4. F / Mother Wolf made a den
.f c
Exercise 2
beneath the tree.
1. magnificent
5. T
2. necessity
3. supreme
h a 6. T
4. outcome
5. evident e s Part B
6. dissatisfied
n k 1. b
2. c
.e
7. seize
3. d
8. dawn
4. d
9. pile
w
10. cub
w
w
Exercise 3
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. a
7. a
8. d
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Unit 21 9. tragic, sacrifices

10. leak, glowing
Exercise 1
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
time.
o m
from sitting under a tree for a long
.f c
Exercise 2
4. F / The old man’s instincts told him
1. dim
there was something in the forest.
2. accustomed
3. leak
h a 5. T
4. stiff
5. clan e s 6. T
6. astonished
n k Part B
1. d
.e
7. feast
2. b
8. glowing
3. c
9. tragic
w 4. b
w
10. instincts
w
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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Part A
1. T
Exercise 1
2. F / Ben wasn’t tempted by money
Part A
when he had his own circus.
1. a
3. T
2. b
4. T
3. d
5. F / Ben learned about the circus
4. b
5. b
headlines.
o m
from a messenger with newspaper
Part B
.f c
6. F / An artist could be commissioned
to paint informal portraits of people
1. b
2. d
h a posing in front of a funny picture.
3. a
4. b
e s Part B
5. a
n k 1. c
2. a
Exercise 2
.e 3. d
4. d
1. inquired, dose
w
w
2. peered, pose
w
3. portrait, commissioned
4. coincided, accommodate
5. circus, dyed
6. extent, headline
7. messenger, stripe
8. ranch, informal
9. gender, steering
10. tempted, tame
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Part A
1. T
Exercise 1
2. F / Hans went to the old man’s
1. a
cottage because he liked the prospect
2. c
of food and warmth.
3. d
3. F / The old man in the cottage was
4. b
a wizard.
5. b
6. c
o m
4. F / When daylight faded, Hans
returned to the cottage.
.f c
7. c
5. T
8. a
6. T
9. b
10. a
h a
Exercise 2 e s Part B
1. a
1. Aborigine, cottage
n k 2. a
3. b
.e
2. outlaw, prospects
4. d
3. wizard, shaved
w
4. cautious, gamble
w
5. ban, daytime
w
6. lawn, faded
7. desperate, purse
8. mow, fierce
9. terrified, confess
10. seldom, rod
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Part A
1. F / Larry was a cow, Harry was a
Exercise 1
rooster and Lester was a duck on the
Part A
widow Riley’s farm.
1. b
2. T
2. a
3. T
3. d
4. F / The only things the animals took
4. c
5. d
o m
with them were a portable
microphone, a flute and a drum.
Part B
.f c
5. F / Lester was an optimist.
6. F / Harry knocked over the lamp to
1. b
2. d
h a break the bulb.
3. b
4. a
e s Part B
5. c
n k 1. b
2. c
Exercise 2
.e 3. b
4. a
w
1. symphony, initiated
w
2. graze, cattle
w
3. nerve, optimist
4. lane, paved
5. herd, bundle
6. widow, greed
7. parade, posters
8. portable, bulb
9. phantom, fled
10. baggage, scratched
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Unit 25 6. circulated
7. resigned
8. frost
Exercise 1
9. trembled
Part A
10. lieutenant
1. a
2. a
3. d
Part A
4. c
5. b
o m
1. F / The sun’s rays don’t shine on
Greenland for three months.
Part B
.f c
2. F / He wanted to start a dynasty in
his name in Greenland.
1. c
2. b
h a 3. F / Erik the Red’s consequent
3. b
4. a
e s punishment for killing his neighbor
was to leave Iceland.
5. d
n k 4. T
5. T
Exercise 2
.e 6. F / Erik gave it the name Greenland
because he wanted many people to
1. a, d
w settle there.
2. b, c
3. a, d w
4. a, b
5. b, d
w Part B
1. c
2. b
3. b
Exercise 3
4. b
1. fraction
2. dynasty
3. ray
4. illusion
5. via
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Unit 26 9. jealous, disgusting

10. flour, drain
Exercise 1
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
o m
3. F / The model rocket worked after
.f c
Exercise 2
the wires were moved.
1. disgusting
4. F / The mailbox collapsed because
2. collapsed
3. wiped
h a the rocket curved into it.
4. curved
5. embraced e s 5. T
6. T
6. autumn
n k Part B
.e
7. wire
1. a
8. altered
2. b
9. drain
w 3. d
w
10. receipt
4. d
w
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 A
1. T
Exercise 1
2. F / The Spanish had blonde hair.
Part A
3. T
1. a
4. T
2. a
5. F / Atahualpa thought that Pizarro
3. b
had insulted him.
4. b
5. a
o m
6. F / Pizarro did not agree that
Atahualpa was both a go and a king.
Part B
.f c
Part B
1. a
2. a
h a 1. a
3. d
4. a
e s 2. a
3. b
5. c
n k 4. b
Exercise 2
.e
1. Meanwhile
w
w
2. ambassador
w
3. necklace
4. acknowledge
5. insult
6. conquered
7. precious
8. stack
9. rumors
10. prejudice
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Part A
1. T
Exercise 1
2. F / The chill of the arctic water
Part A
made Marcus’s finger ache.
1. a
3. F / Marcus didn’t work in an
2. b
institution with his father.
3. c
4. F / In the end, everyone was very
4. b
5. d
happy with Marcus.
5. T
o m
Part B
.f c
6. T
1. c
2. b
h a Part B
3. b
4. d
e s 1. b
2. a
5. c
n k 3. d
4. c
Exercise 2 .e
1. postponed
w
w
2. congress
w
3. merchant
4. institution
5. chemist
6. dairy
7. splash
8. suburb
9. tide
10. ache
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Unit 29 Reading comprehension

Part A
1. F / The photographs portrayed
Exercise 1
important events from the
Part A
grandfather’s life.
1. a
2. T
2. c
3. T
3. b
4. T
4. c
5. b
o m
5. F / The certificate was from the day
the grandfather got married.
Part B
.f c
6. T
1. d
2. a
h a Part B
3. b
4. c
e s 1. c
2. a
5. c
n k 3. c
4. c
Exercise 2
.e
1. traced, bomb
w
w
2. circumstances, nuclear
w
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 A
1. T
Exercise 1
2. F / The caterpillar had no bones,
Part A
not even a spine.
1. c
3. T
2. b
4. F / Cory hopped off the counter
3. b
and ran into the kitchen.
4. a
5. d
5. T
6. T
o m
Part B
.f c
Part B
1. d
2. a
h a 1. a
3. d
4. d
e s 2. c
3. c
5. a
n k 4. a
Exercise 2
.e
1. spine
w
2. basin
w
w
3. cupboard
4. hopped
5. emerged
6. hook
7. caterpillar
8. strip
9. sleeves
10. stain
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Unit 1 Reading Comprehension

Exercise 2 n k was wrong.

Unit 10 9. relief, nap

Unit 11 6. pursuit, marsh

Exercise 2 e s middle of the ocean.

Unit 15 9. exploit, assembly

Unit 17 9. remainder / shallow

Unit 19 5. pregnant, spare

Exercise 2 .e for days.

Unit 21 9. tragic, sacrifices

Unit 22 Reading Comprehension

Unit 23 Reading Comprehension

Unit 24 Reading Comprehension

Unit 26 9. jealous, disgusting

Unit 27 Reading Comprehension

Unit 28 Reading Comprehension

Unit 29 Reading comprehension

Unit 30 Reading Comprehension

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