Задание №21138 ЕГЭ Английский язык

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As the saying goes ... ‘water, water, everywhere’. Well, how much water is there; where is this water; how does it move around?

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to not have clean water to drink. Water is not evenly divided around the world. Some places have lots and others have very little. Water supply is a big problem in some countries. Some people in Africa carry water from a hole A ________________ . This water source might not even be in their town and they will have to travel to get it. Some kids wrote about how they have dirty water at their school and sometimes kids get sick from drinking it. We wonder В ________________ .

We thought that the United States didn’t have any of those problems but we were wrong. Appalachia, in the southern part of the United States, has some homes C _________________ .

In Arizona, the Central Arizona Project gets water piped in from the Colorado River. This is a problem for the places that used to get most of the Colorado River water D _________________ . There are rules about how much water can be taken out of rivers. Some rivers in the West have reached that limit. There are ‘water wars’ where people argue over E _________________ .

The problem of water supply keeps a lot of people looking for new ways to use water better. Every time we use it, we take water away from the Earth. We know how it flows on the surface and underground F ________________ . In the past few years, many households have been using rain barrels attached to the downspout of their gutters to store and use rain water for the lawn and garden. If we don’t spend that extra five minutes in the shower, or run the water when we brush our teeth, we can make a difference!

 

 

1. who has the right to use the water

2. which provide people with most of the water

3. that is bored or dug into the ground

4. that still don’t have running water

5. until it gets to us

6. what we can do about this

7. because they can’t get as much now