ThisyearthedryseasoninSoutheastAsiahasbeenfard1.thannormal.AndthesouthernChineseprovincesofYunnanGuizhouandSichuanaresufferingaseveredrought.Over20millionpeoplef2.watershortageswithsome6.5million

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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（公顷） of crops affected.

  "This is a one in 50-year occurrence（发生） - 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