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For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late Nov
For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late Nov
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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 US 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 F) decades K) populations
B) associated G) experiences L) realize
C) bore H) globally M) reduce
D) chances I) logically N) saw
E) communicated J) occurs O) specific [br] 【C2】
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答案
F
解析
名词辨析题。空格位于数词之后,应填入名词。本句指出,两个________以来的第一次,有记载的寒冷的天数可能超过温暖的天数。由句意可知,空格处应填入表示时间的名词,故答案为decades“十年”。
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