Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary :

different	suffer	fertilizers	appear	environment	cause
diseases	afflicted	rural	severely	substances	alarm

 

 

(a) alarming; (b) appears; (c) rural; (d) afflicted; (e) fertilizers; (f) suffer; (g) severely; (h) differs; (i) substances; (j) causing.

Many diseases are rising at an (a)alarming rate which experts believe is due to increased pollution of the environment. Some specialists believe that pollution (b) appears to be greater in urban areas. Though (c) rural societies too are (d) afflicted by increased use of chemical (e) fertilizers and insecticides. Nevertheless, today city people appear to suffer from many more diseases and (f) suffer more (g)severely then country people. Now let us see how life in cities (h) differs from that in the country. Harmful (i) substances in water and air are (j) causing environment pollution.