A. HARDLY B. RARELY C. CLOSELY D. NEARLYVII. CHOOSE THE ITEM (A, B...

70. A. hardly B. rarely C. closely D. nearlyVII. Choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best answers the question about the passage. Water is our life source. It makes up 70% of our bodies, and the average person usually spends18 months of his life in the bath or shower. But we are only now learning how to look after water. Acid rain has polluted as many as 18.000lakes and our seas. And rivers are polluted with waste products. It is now very expensive to try torepair the damage which has been done. We have some hope for the future, though, because newsources of water have been discovered. People living in the Sahara Desert have found fish swimmingin deep underground streams. Scientists also believe there is a huge lake underneath London. If wehave learnt anything from our mistakes, we will try to keep these new areas of water clean.