問題詳情

Passage 3According to the World Resources Institute, approximately 38% of the world’s population could face chronic watershortages by the year 2025. It is estimated that humans use 45 times as 26 water as they did three centuries ago. All over theglobe, humans are pumping water out of the ground faster than it can be 27 . The United Nations recently outlined theseverity of the problem, saying that more people will suffer a high level of water stress if consumption continues at current rates.Several factors contribute to water shortages. Irrigation, which grows 40 percent of the world’s food and makes it possibleto feed the plant’s 6.2 billion people, 28 the largest percentage of water use. Another problem is that people don’t see theneed to conserve water. If people can 29 the seriousness of the situation, they may be more willing to take action and useless water. In addition, it has been found that some places were rife with broken water pipes, leaky toilets, and faulty plumbing30 a lot of water was simply being wasted.
【題組】26.
(A) more
(B) many
(C) much
(D) less

參考答案

答案:[無官方正解]
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)