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  3. 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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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] 【C4】
选项
答案 D
解析 名词辨析题。本空位于原因状语从句的系动词are之前，故应填入名词作主语。本句是对2014年天气的预测：2014年会更热，也许是有记录以来最热的年份。由perhaps…可知本空应填入有“可能”含义的名词，故答案为D)chances。
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