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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] 【C5】
选项
答案 J
解析 动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知，空格位于主语El Nino之后，应填入动词作谓语。本句解释什么是厄尔尼诺现象，句意为：当南太平洋表层海水温度异常升高时，厄尔尼诺就会——。因此本空应填入有“出现；发生”含义的词，故答案为J)occurs。本题也可以根据句子成分逐步分析，本句中，ElNino是主语，Spanish for“the child”是其同位语，when引导时间状语从句。同位语是对其前面名词的进一步解释说明，去掉并不影响句子的结构，在分析时可以省略，因此可判断本句缺少谓语动词。另外，本段在介绍厄尔尼诺现象时，用的都是现在时，可以将选择范围缩小至动词G)experiences和J)occurs，再根据句意排除G)。
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