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Exam practice

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Reading and Use of English Part 3
For questions 1 —8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to
form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Water a precious resource

Access to a clean (0) reliable RELY
water supply is essential to our
survival. (1)
over 70 percent of the earth's surface, COVER
water is apparently (2) PLENTY
. But in fact, less than
1 percent of all the water on earth is accessible for human use in lakes,
rivers and reservoirs. (3) NEW
by rain and snowfall, this
water supply is available to us as a finite but (4)
SUSTAIN
resource. As the demand for access to this limited supply increases,
it is thought that as many as 3.5 billion people could experience water
by 2025. A worldwide water management plan
(5) SHORT
is vital. An International campaign must be introduced both to raise
public (8) AWARE
of the importance of conserving and
(7) CYCLE
this precious resource. Furthermore,
industry and agriculture must be made to reduce their water
(13) CONSUME
.Only in this way can water-related
international conflicts be avoided.

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