Question

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The seasons in Australia are the opposite of ours.   1   it is winter here, it is summer there. Australia is   2    the south of the world. June, July and August are the winter months. The summer is in December,   3   and February. The north of the country is   4   than the south.      Australia's main problem is   5  . A very large part of the country has no rain at all. But the east coast has rain   6   the year round. There are no dry months here.      In March 1982, there was a terrible drought (干旱) in Australia. The summer rain didn't   7  . There were 138 million sheep in Australia this year. This was 14% of all the sheep in the world.      Because there was no   8   rain and the grass didn't grow well, the farmers   9   to sell many of their sheep and many sheep  10 , too. It was a great disaster (災(zāi)難) for Australian farmers.

(     )1. A. Because  (     )2. A. in       (     )3. A. November    (     )4. A. colder   (     )5. A. water    (     )6. A. whole    (     )7. A. have     (     )8. A. plenty   (     )9. A. have     (     )10. A. died     B. Since      B. on         B. January        B. cooler    B. sheep      B. half      B. fall      B. a little   B. had         B. dead      C. When       C. to         C. March       C. hotter    C. pollution       C. all        C. give         C. a lot      C. must        C. death    D. For           D. near          D. October        D. warmer    D. population                   D. part          D. keep           D. enough    D. needed          D. dying

Answer 1

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