How would I read only the first word of each line of a text file?

Question

I wanted to know how I could read ONLY the FIRST WORD of each line in a text file. I tried various codes and tried altering codes but can only manage to read whole lines from a

Answer 1

l=[] with open ('task-1.txt', 'rt') as myfile:

for x in myfile:                
    l.append(x)

for i in l: print[i.split()[0] ]