For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late Nov

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问题     For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late November and December【C1】______early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two【C2】______, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U. S. was the exception-. November was the warmest ever【C3】______, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.
    Enjoy the snow now, because【C4】______are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That’s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El Nino year.
    El Nino, Spanish for "the child" ,【C5】______when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet’s surface, that the【C6】______energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El Ninos are【C7】______with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa【C8】______dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: El Ninos can【C9】______the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich(营养丰富的)water that supports large fish【C10】______, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).
A)additional I)logically
B)associated J)occurs
C)bore K)populations
D)chances L)realize
E)communicated M)reduce
F)decades N)saw
G)experiences O)specific
H)globally [br] 【C10】

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答案 K

解析 名词辨析题。本空位于句末名词之后,应填入名词。that引导的定语从句的意思是:这些海水供养着大量的鱼——。由句意可知,此处意为“鱼群”,故答案为K)populations。备选名词中D)chances、F)decades和G)experiences均在上题中已选,而N)saw显然与句意不符,因此均排除。
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