Question

This year, the dry season in Southeast Asia has been far d 1. than normal. And the southern Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan are suffering a severe drought. Over 20 million people f 2. water shortages with some 6.5 million hectares（公頃） of crops affected.

"This is a one in 50-year occurrence（發(fā)生） - with a return period o 3. 50 years - so it's quite severe," says Ian Makin, an engineer and senior water resources management specialist with the Asian Development Bank. "Now the problem is that in the dry season most people t 4. are cropping in the Mekong Basin are u 5.pumps and when the water level drops further than normal ，they can't let w 6. out into their fields and they're struggling to keep the crop a 7. ."

In towns, water resource officials have asked communities to conserve water. Barges and ferries normally plying the river have been forced to halt services, b 8. in some areas, the r 9. is nearly dry. And in low-lying areas in Vietnam's fertile Mekong delta, the drought m 10. salty ocean water can move onto farm land, damaging the soil.

 

Answer 1

1.drier

2.face

3.of

4.that

5.using

6.water

7.alive

8.because

9.river

10.means

【解析】

試題分析：今年，在東南亞洲地區(qū)的干旱情況比平時更加干旱。在中國的南部也出現(xiàn)干旱情況。超過兩千萬的人們面臨著缺水的情況。這與五十年內(nèi)發(fā)生最嚴重的情況一樣。因為一些地區(qū)的河流接近于干旱，所以這些地區(qū)的政府制定了一些相應的政策。

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考點：社會現(xiàn)象類短文閱讀。