Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 45.
WILL OUR PLANET SURVIVE?
There are over 7 billion people in the world today. The richest 1.5 billion (36) ..... 75% of all the world's resources. To give the other 5.5 billion people who live in (37) ..... a better life, we will need the resources of (38).......four or five planets. (39) ..... , we have only one, and 1.5 billion of us have already (40)......a large part of it.
Forests are essential to life. They give us clean air and plants for medicines, (41) ..... contain over half the world's animals, birds, and plants. Humans destroy an area of forest the (42)......of Greece every year. If we don't (43).......this destruction, it will be too late. There are some signs of (44)......, but we will have to work very (45)...... if we want to save the planet.
(44) .....
A.help
B.heat
C.habit
D.hope