4000 Essential English Words

Exercise 1

Choose the answer that best fits the question.

1. What is needed to subsist?
   a. Rainy weather b. Clean water
   c. Fast cars


2. What is someone penalized for?
   a. Falling in love
   c. An invention


3. What does a business owner justify?
   a. Her house
   c. Her workers

d. The Internet

b. Winning a race

d. Breaking the law

b. Her decision

d. Her family

Which one of these uses a product made from petroleum?

a. A sandwich b. A telephone

c. An automobile d. A cow

5. What releases fumes?
   a. An old truck
   c. A tired worker

b. A baby cat

d. A bicycle

Exercise 2

Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word bank.

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fumes

overpopulation

habitual

patent

scraps

export

prototype

output

abide

sector

Everyone was very excited about the new 1 ______________.

The inventor of the machine got a 2______________.

The dramatic increase of people into the city led to 3 ______________.

It is the most important problem in the human services 4 ______________,

The mother was worried that her child’s bad behavior was 5 ______________.

She decided on some new rules to which her child had to 6______________by.

The factory produced 5000 computers a day as 7 ______________.

But the machines used to make them also let out harmful 8______________.

The country prepared tons of different materials to 9.

However, some of the materials were just 10 ______