4．What trouble will happen to a person if he suffers some hearing loss? (Please give at least two examples mentioned in the passage, each within 15 words.)

3．Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)

2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Compared to adults, teenagers are more likely to turn up their players.

1．What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

79. The underlined phrase “adhered to” in Paragraph 9 probably means_________.

A. disliked　　 B. gone against　　 C. supported　 D. doubted　

78. What can we learn from the last paragraph ?

A. Australians have never like drinking purified waste water

B. Australians should develop more water sources to live through the hard time

C. Australians can’t depend upon rainwater, which is not suitable for drinking .

D. Australian government has no ability to solve the problem of water shortage

77. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Nobody disagrees to the idea of drinking recycled purified water

B. Australia's second largest state has become the first state to introduce the policy

C. No other countries but Australia decide to drink recycled water

D. The drought is the worst one in the droughts recorded in Australian history.

76. What is the text mainly about?

A. Continuing drought forces Australians to drink recycled sewage

B. Australians face the choice of life and death

C. Premier Beattie is worried about his people’s health

D. We should avoid drinking recycled water to keep healthy

75. From the poem the Waterfall in Mount Lu Viewed from Afar we can see that____________.

　 A. the Silver River ran down from the high mountain

　 B. Li Bai loved the beauty of nature badly

　 C. Li Bai’s poems were written down by a man

D. the cloud was like waterfall from high heaven

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Australians have been warned they face a life or death decision over their water - drink recycled sewage (污水) or die.

With the drought (干旱) continuing, the country is set to be forced to use purified (净化的) waste water for drinking, even though there is great opposition to the measure.

Queensland has become the first state to introduce the policy after a warning from its premier.

　"I think in the end, because of the drought, all of Australia is going to end up drinking recycled purified water," said Peter Beattie.

　"These are difficult decisions, but you either drink water or you die. There's no choice. It's liquid gold, it's a matter of life and death."

Beattie said Australia's second largest state would become the first to use recycled water for drinking.

Water is recycled in Britain and parts of northern Europe along with the US and Israel.

But Australians have never liked the idea.

To try to change the way Australians think, Prime Minister John Howard and Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull have adhered to Queensland's move.

"I am very strongly for recycling and Mr. Beattie is right and I agree with him completely," Howard said.

“Australian cities, all now facing water shortages because of the worst drought on record, must start to use recycled water.” added Turnbull, "All of our big cities have to widen the range of water sources to include sources which are not dependent on rainfall."