IT WAS GETTING LATE, SO WE HURRIEDLY GATHERED ALL OUR THINGS AND RA...

22.It was getting late, so we hurriedly gathered all our things and ran home.

A. leisurely

B. quickly

C. joyfully

D. mutually

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, c, or D to indicate the correct

word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Our demand for water is constantly increasing. Every year there are more and more

people in the world. Factories turn out more and more products and (23) _______more

and more water. We live in a world of water. But almost all of it - about 97% - is in the

oceans.

This water is (24) _______salty to be used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing.

Only about 3% of the world’s water is fresh. Most of this water is not easily available to

man (25) _______it is locked in glaciers and icecaps.

There is as much water on earth today as there ever was or will ever be. Water is used

and reused over again. It is never used up. Although the world as a whole has plenty of

(26) _______ water, some regions have a water shortage. Rain does not fall evenly over

the earth. Some regions are always too dry, and others too wet. A region that usually gets

enough rain may suddenly have a serious (27) and another region may be flooded with

too much rain.