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For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitt
For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitt
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2024-01-20
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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 Nihos 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 Nifios 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] 【C9】
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答案
M
解析
动词辨析题。空格位于情态动词can之后,应填入动词原形。本句指出,厄尔尼诺现象会________富含营养的寒冷海水的上升。本段第一句提到,厄尔尼诺现象的发生意味着海水温度升高,自然不利于寒冷海水的上升,故答案为reduce。
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