Read the following text and fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary different suffer fertilizer appear environment cause diseases afflicted rural severely substances alarm Many diseases are rising at an (a)———— rate which experts believe is due to increased pollution of the environment, Some specialists believe that pollution (b)———- to be greater in urban areas. Although (c)—————- societies too are (d)————-by increased use of chemical (e)—————- - and insecticides. Nevertheless, today city people appear to suffer from many more diseases and (f)———— more (g)———— than country people. Now let us see how life in cities is (h) ————- from that in the country. Harmful (i) ———-- in water and air are (j) ————- environment pollution.