Part 2:  7 Difficult sentences in text

1. One night, I didn’t turn off the water fast enough to her liking. (Para. 1)

2. We need to conserve our resources to buy ourselves time so scientists can find new solutions to our problems. (Para. 2)

3. His list, in descending order of importance, was: energy, water, food, environment, poverty, terrorism and war, disease, education, democracy, and population. (Para. 4)

4. The reason energy and water sit at the top, ahead of food and poverty, is that addressing them makes subsequent problems easier to deal with. (Para. 5)

5. Climate change is expected to intensify droughts and floods while shifting where water will be and when. (Para. 7) 

6. Research budgets have prioritized energy, defense, and health … (Para. 9)

Research budgets have treated energy, defense and health as being more important than other areas …

7. … even though fixing water would help our energy, defense, and health problems. (Para. 9)

According to the micro-lecture，how many identities does Water have and what are they respectively？ 

It's  ____1_____ ,  ____2_____ ,  _____3_____,  an _____4______ , the  “_____5_______”  ,   a  patient  .     

中国众多的河流和湖泊提供了充足且可靠的淡水供应。但由于经济高速发展，饮用水源头大多已遭到污染。全国水资源分布不均，而且据预测，2030年中国人口将达16亿。水资源稀缺将不可避免成为重大关切。水利部在十三五规划中突出了水安全对于国家安全的战略意义，并将加大力度保护水资源和恢复水生态系统。