Common EntranceEnglishComprehension

Read the passage and answer the question. Every Saturday, Kemi helps her grandmother at the market in Ibadan. They sell pepper, tomatoes and onions. Kemi likes counting the money, but she does not like waking up at five o'clock. Last Saturday it rained heavily, so very few customers came, and they went home early. The word 'heavily' as used in the passage means:

Aquietly
Blightly
Cslowly
Dvery muchCORRECT
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Why the answer is D, and why the others tempt you.
'It rained heavily' means a lot of rain fell, so 'heavily' here means very much.
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