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John Lee likes to tinker with vehicles: his four-wheel-drive resembles a tractor more than a car. "It’s watertight," he smiles.
John Lee likes to tinker with vehicles: his four-wheel-drive resembles a tractor more than a car. "It’s watertight," he smiles.
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John Lee likes to tinker with vehicles: his four-wheel-drive resembles a tractor more than a car. "It’s watertight," he smiles. For the past week he has been driving down sodden lanes in Surrey, southwest of London, transporting people and medicines. Flooding is a misery, but at least it provides an opportunity to show off a set of wheels.
Much of southern England is now sodden, and parts of the Thames Valley and Somerset are simply underwater. In Shepperton, a town in Surrey, the village green used for the summer fete is best reached by canoe. In Devon a sea wall has collapsed, shutting down a vital railway link to the south-west. As The Economist went to press, 16 severe flood warnings had been issued by the Environment Agency, a much-criticised quango that oversees flood defence.
Floods are like snowflakes, says Andrew McKenzie of the British Geological Survey, a research body: none is quite like another. Rivers can overflow, as in Somerset. Groundwater can flood, as in the Thames Valley. Tides can surge,
inundating
villages, as they have in Lincolnshire. Rain can pound down too quickly to be absorbed. None of these is rare on its own. But over the past two months Britain has been subject to the whole lot, often in combination, over a large area.
Last month was the wettest January in southern England since 1910. The rain was unusually prolonged, falling on 23 days out of 31 , a four-decade record. Rain continues to fall on this sodden ground. As a result, the Thames river has been running high for longer than at any point since records began in 1883. The calamitous floods that struck England in 1947, by contrast, were over much more quickly.
Fingers have been pointed at the government, for squeezing the Environment Agency’s budget. According to the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body, government funding for flood management between 2011 and 2015 will be less than in the previous four years, even in cash terms. The maintenance budget was cut particularly savagely, says Iain Sturdy of the Somerset drainage board.
The underlined word "inundating"(Para 3, Line 3)most probably means______.
选项
A、emerging
B、submerging
C、sinking
D、diving
答案
B
解析
该词所在句的前后文为:Rivers can overflow,as in Somerset.Groundwater can flood,as in the Thames Valley.Tides can surge,inundating villages,as they have in Lincolnshire.几个句子结构一致,形成排比,而这几个句子的动词都是很接近的,其中inundating与之前的surge,flood,overflow是有关联甚至是接近的,故可以通过这几个词之中最熟悉的一个,即“flood淹没”一词,猜测出inundating也是类似的意思。四个选项中,能与“flood淹没”相近的是选项[B],故为答案。
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