II. Fill in each blank with one suitable word to complete this passage. (1.0 p)THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER.Water kills thousands of people and _____________(1) many acres of crops every year, but water also gives life to all living things in the world. Without water, life would be unthinkable. We ___________(2) have water to grow our food, feed the birds and animals ____________(3) our homes, grow forests and produce electricity. We use waterways__________ (4) carry our goods of trade....
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II. Fill in each blank with one suitable word to complete this passage. (1.0 p)
THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER.
Water kills thousands of people and _____________(1) many acres of crops every year, but water also gives life to all living things in the world.
Without water, life would be unthinkable. We ___________(2) have water to grow our food, feed the birds and animals ____________(3) our homes, grow forests and produce electricity. We use waterways__________ (4) carry our goods of trade. Even the human body, which is seventy parts of one hundred of water itself, ___________(5) exist for long without water.
Ever ___________(6) the earth began, large quantities of water have been used by living things. Yet for every drop of water that is taken from one place, another drop is put back from somewhere else.
Nature has a very clever __________(7) of carrying water from cloud to land and sea and back to cloud. No water has been lost.
But nature does not put water where and when we need it. _________(8) some men are drowning, others in another part of the world are dying of thirst. Thus, people all _________(9) the world are trying to bring water to places where it is scarce, to control its flow in times of floods and to make greater __________(10) of it.
