L&S Unit 3 Vocab A

1.  The economy is ...........................very quickly, and soon, our country will be very rich.

• developing

• estimate

• traditional

2.  Officials ......................... that the population of this city will double over the next 20 years.

• still

• estimate

• factor

3.  A common Japanese ........................... is to take your shoes off before you enter a house.

• region

• actual

• custom

4.  It's important to ................................

our historic monuments and make sure tourists don't harm them.

• actual

• region

• preserve

5.  The food in this .................

is very spicy, but in other parts of the country, it is milder.

• region

• disappear

• estimate

6.  If native peoples don't teach their children to speak their languages, those languages will ..................

• traditional

• still

• disappear

7.  It's ...................... to give the bride and groom a gift when you attend their wedding.

• disappear

• factor

• traditional

8.  Cowboys...............

ride horses and were hats, but there aren't as many of them now.

• still

• actual

• region

9.  The newspaper said that 10,000 people moved to this city last year, but the

............... number is much higher.

• custom

• estimate

• actual

10. We don't really know why the weather has been so strange lately, but climate change is probably a .............

• factor

• preserve

• region