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.