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  3. For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late November and December【C1】______early snow and bone-chil

For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late November and December【C1】______early snow and bone-chil

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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
【C3】
选项
答案H
解析 副词辨析题。本句属于主系表结构，并不缺少主要成分，因此应填入副词作状语。本段第一、二句讲的是美国2013年11月底和12月比往年冷，第三句开始转折，说美国是特例。本句进一步解释说11月是——最暖和的，应该是将美国和全球其他国家对比得出的，因此答案为H)globally。备选副词I)logically不符合句意，因此排除。
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