Vocab Review 3

The tallest building in the city where I live has 81 _____.

• stores

• storages

• stories

• storeys

It is a very _____ house - you can't really tell it apart from all others in the street.

• ornate

• innovative

• traditional

• state-of-the-art

I wish someone would invent a _____ for opening milk cartons - my family always makes a mess of it!

• devise

• device

• trigger

• pulley

Although it is an old house, it has been very well _____.

• maintained

• condemned

• occupied

• demolished

The latest _____ for consumers is a system that allows shoppers to check out their groceries for themselves without having to wait in long queues.

• innovate

• inventor

• innovator

• innovation

The developers _____ a school on the new housing estate.

• build

• building

• built

• built up

This machine performs the same _____ as a washing machine but on a much larger scale.

• function

• feature

• frame

• form

The Internet allows us to _____ enormous amounts of information without leaving the house.

• access

• accept

• scroll

• supply

My new fridge has a little screen on the outside that _____ the internal and external temperature.

• devises

• designs

• displays

• discovers

The whole system has been _____ so that we can no longer ask anyone for help.

• automatic

• automated

• computerise

• digital

Answer explanation

automated (adj): carried out by machines or computers without needing human control