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(estimates, patrimony, growing, precede, eroding, deprives)
It has been well said that forests ____ Q.1. ____ mankind; deserts follow. The world’s ancient ____ Q.2. ____ of tropical forests is now ____ Q.3. ____ at the rate of forty to fifty million acres a year, and the ____ Q.4. ____ use of dung for burning, ____ Q.5. ____ the soil of an important natural fertiliser. The World Bank. ____ Q.6. ____ that a five-fold increase in the rate of forest planting is needed to cope with the expected fuelwood demand in the year 2000.

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Answer

1. precede
2. patrimony
3. eroding
4. growing
5. deprives
6. estimates

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