Question

Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
Water is ----------- by chemicals and other wastes from industries.

• A. refined
• B. polluted
• C. filtered
• D. purified

Hint:

Industrial waste and raw chemicals are bad, dirty things. Putting dirty things into water will make it dirty. The formal word for making a natural resource dirty with toxic waste is pollute!

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Context.
Chemicals and waste from industries contaminate water. Refined/purified = cleaned; filtered = physically cleaned.
Step 2: Correct word.
'Polluted' (made impure by harmful substances) is correct.
Answer: polluted