A. STORES B. STOCKS C. GOODS D. FUNDSIII. FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH...

15. A. stores

B. stocks

C. goods

D. funds

III. Fill in each blank with one suitable word to complete this passage. (10 points)

Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Do you know that nature recycles, too ? One of the

things nature (1) _______ is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls

from the air as (2) _______ or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the oceans.

Nature’s recycling program for water is (3) _______ the water cycle.

The water cycle has four stages: storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff. Water on Earth

gets stored (4) _______ oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage

into the atmosphere by a process called evaporation. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid

(5) _______ a gas, called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (6) _______ atmosphere. Water

returns to the Earth as precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water (7) _______ the

air gets cold enough. Clouds are collections (8) _______ water droplets. Most precipitation falls into

the oceans and goes right back into storage.

Water that falls on land always flows from (9) _______ places to lower ones. This flow is called

runoff. Water from land flows into streams.

Streams join together to make (10) _______ and

eventually the water flows into storage in the oceans. Then the water cycle starts all over again.

D. WRITING (20 points)

I. Rewrite the sentences in such a way that they mean almost the same as those printed before

them. (10 points)