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36-40. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions. Circle the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Our demand for water is constantly increasing. Every year there are more and morepeople in the world. Factories turn out more and more products and need more and morewater. We live in a world of water. But almost all of it - about 97% - is in the oceans. Thiswater is too salty to be used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing. Only about 3% of theworld's water is fresh. Most of this water is not easily available to man because it is locked inglaciers and icecaps.There is as much water on earth today as there ever was or will ever be. Most of thewater we use finds its way to the oceans. There, it is evaporated by the sun. It then falls backto the earth as rain. Water is used and reused over again. It is never used up. Although theworld as a whole has plenty of fresh water, some regions have a water shortage. Rain doesnot fall evenly over the earth. Some regions are always too dry, and others too wet. A regionthat usually gets enough rain may suddenly have a serious dry spell and another region maybe flooded with too much rain.