Question 28In the passage below, the number gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below the passage, five options are offered in columns lettered A-E. Fill each number gap with the most appropriate of the options
In the passage below, the number gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the list below the passage, five options are offered in columns lettered A-E. Fill each number gap with the most appropriate of the options
One of the reasons for ....... down forest is to ....... land for farming. However, the ....28... in the rain forest is usually poor, so the new farms do not improve the ....... supply very much. On the other hand, plants which might ....... new kinds of food are destroyed by fire, sometimes before ....... had been able to give them names. Remember rice, cocoa and maize were all first ....... in the rainforest. Rainforest give us medicine as well as food. A quarter of the medicine in a dispensary contain something which has come from ...... forest plants or trees.Because of these ....... we can hope to find ...... for some of the worst diseases of our time.
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