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DIRECTIONS: Read the passage (s) given below and answer the questions that follow. Passage - 3 The rain water and water from other sources such as rivers and ponds seeps through the soil and fills the empty spaces and cracks deep below the ground. The ground water thus gets recharged by this process. At places the ground water is stored between the layers of hard rock below the water table. The places where the ground water is stored between layers of hard rock below the water table is known as

A) spring                          

B) aquifer

C) bore well        

D) None of these