The dog was________ when we________ it.

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The ___ man told us his past days before he ____. His __ made us very sad.

　　The seasons in Australia are opposite（相反）to 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（主要的）problem is water. A (5) large part of the country has no rain at all. But the east coast（海岸）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 that year. This was 14% of all the sheep in the world.

　　Because there was not (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 Australia farmers.