Question

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（選擇最恰當?shù)膯卧~或詞組完成短文）

Researcher Robert Engelman frown Population Action International says by the year 2025 about 3000 million people may lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have serious water problems. The need for water keeps increasing.

Mr Engelman says the population in these countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. The report says lack of water in the future may result in（導致）several problems. It may even increase ______ problems. Lack of water often means drinking water isn't safe. Mr Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases. Lack of water may also ______ more international conflict（沖突）. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries, such as Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. And the report says lack of water would affect（影響）the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is ______ new industries（工業(yè)）often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.

The Population Action International study gives several solutions ______ the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. ______ way is to teach people to be careful and not to waste water. A third way is to use less water of agriculture. The ______ also says long-term（長期的）ways of dealing with the water problem must include controls on population growth.

1.A.health B.water C.economy D.healthy

2.A.take B.cause C.result D.change

3.A.what B.that C.how D.because

4.A.or B.at C.to D.of

5.A.Second B.The other C.Another D.Other

6.A.story B.report C.news D.actions

Answer 1