READ THE PASSAGE CAREFULLY, THEN FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD

Questions 66-75: Read the passage carefully, then fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. Write

your answers into the box below.

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

nature (66) _______ is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls from the air

as (67) _______ or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the oceans. Nature’s recycling

program for water is (68) _______ the water cycle.

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

stored in oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage into the atmosphere by a

(69) _______ called evaporation. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid (70) _______ a gas,

called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (71) _______ atmosphere. Water returns to the Earth as

precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water when the air (72) _______ cold enough.

Clouds are collections of water droplets. Most precipitation (73) _______ into the oceans and goes right

back into storage.

Water that falls on land always flows from (74) _______ places to lower ones. This flow is called

runoff. Water from land flows into streams. Streams join (75) _______ to make rivers and eventually the

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

Your answers:

66.

67.

68.

69.

70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

75.

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