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How does acid deposition affect human health? We eat food, drink water, and breathe air that has come in contact with acid deposition. Canadian and U.S. studies indicate that there is a link between t

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Section 28 Acid Rain 50 years ago, no one talked about acid rain. Then we didn't really know the harm it was causing to the world. Today almost every adult and school child is aware of acid rain and i

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I hate mowing my lawn, said Gil. Every week I have to mow my lawn. Every week for six months I have to mow my lawn. What can I do? You should dig it up, said Brenda. Take out all the grass. Pave your yard. Make a concrete yard. Then you wont have to

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One day a fox fell into a well and could not scramble out again．The water was not very deep，but the sides of the well were smoothand were covered with slippery moss so that every time the fox struggled up a few inches，he slipped down again with

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One day a fox fell into a well, he could not scramble out again. The water was ont very deep, but the size of the well was move and recovered with slippery mass. So that every time the fox struggle up a few inches he slipped down again with the spla

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