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 is4 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 rain6 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(灾难)for Australia farmers.