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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
【C8】
选项
答案G
解析 动词辨析题。本空位于两个名词(词组)之间，应填入动词作谓语。本句仍然在说明厄尔尼诺带来的天气变化，南北美洲部分地区极端降雨，即便是在非洲南部——干旱的时候。由句意可知，本空应填入有“遭受”含义的动词，故答案为G)experiences。另外，本段在介绍厄尔尼诺现象，用的都是现在时，可以将选择范围缩小至动词G)experiences和J)occurs，而occurs已在上文用过，故排除。
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