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问题     The United Nations Development Programme says the world is facing a water crisis. It says each year more than two million children die from【B1】______caused by unclean water. Most of these deaths are from sicknesses caused by unclean water 【B2】______by human waste.
    The warning is in this year’ s Human Development Report, released by the UN agency on November 9th. Kevin Watkins, the lead writer, says these deaths could be【B3】______with clean water and toilets. The report also finds that over half the people in underdeveloped countries 【B4】______health problems due to 【B5】______water and lack of waste removal systems.
    Mr Watkins says the crisis in health care also【B6】______economic growth in many developing nations. The report says more than one thousand million people in the world do not have clean water and【B7】______.
    The Human Development Report proposes a three-part action plan to help solve the crisis. First, Mr Watkins says national legislation is needed that provides citizens with the right to twenty litres of water a day. Second, the action plan【B8】______each nation to spend more on water and healthcare facilities. Third, the plan calls for increased international aid. This would require an【B9】______four thousand million dollars a year, or two times as much international aid, in the next ten years.
    Mr Watkins says the world is not【B10】______water. The crisis is not because of scarcity but the governance of water. The report also urges governments to consider fairness, equality and social justice when supervising water. [br] 【B9】
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答案 additional
解析 由空前的an和空后的four thousand million dollars可知，本空应填一以元音因素开头的形容词。additional意为“额外的”。
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