四、 用主从复合句合并每一组句子,然后将这 5 组句子合并成一篇 5 句话的短文。 1. The drought is likely to continue till May and no substantial rainfall is expected ahead of the rainy season. The drought started from last autumn. 2. It has left 18 million residents and 11.7 million heads of livestock in the region with water shortages and caused direct economic loss of 23.7 billion yuan . Experts estimate. 3. The government would organize more than 1 , 100 engineers and workers from across the country to dig wells in the country’s southwest. It is reported. 4. More than 1, 600 wells will be drilled. They will provide 200, 000 cubic meters of drinking water per day for 2 million people and 1 million heads of livestock. 5. 1, 400 of the wells are expected to finish digging by May 10. One of the engineers told me.