Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
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For the __________26 month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice (冰雹) ________27 rained down on Spain and Italy. Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked ________ 28 when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk ________29 she walked in a street ________30 her home. On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly ________ 31 serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice ________ 32 into his car. ________33 the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in L'Aquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash. _______ 34 the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, _______ 35 intact. Upon examination, the block of ice _______ 36 in at 2 kilograms and no source _______37 . On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man _______38 was struck _______ 39 the head by a 1 kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
Spain and Italy aren't the only European _______40 getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January. On January 2 in Surrey, England (southwest of London), an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he _______ 41 a strange whistling sound overhead. Seconds _______ 42, a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50-foot-wide area. The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter. Even the shattered remains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque _______43 no unusual color or smell.
Although eyewitnesses to the phenomenon report that they did not see anything in the sky that could account _______ 44 the ice, scientists had to come up with a rationalization. Professor Jesus Martinez Frias, the geologist investigating the ice falls in Spain, told BBC News that the ice pieces had probably been _______ 45 through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere. This was the most likely explanation, he said, for the "very unusual" phenomenon.
26. [ A ] last
[ B ] past
[ C ] passed
[ D ] early
27. [A] was
[B] were
[C] has
[D] have
28. [ A ] conscious
[ B ] consciously
[ C ] unconscious
[ D ] unconsciously
29. [ A ] before
[ B ] after
[ C ] as
[ D ] since
30. [ A ] at
[ B ] in
[ C ] along
[ D ] near
31. [A] escaped
[B] went
[C] attacked
[D] got
32. [ A ] smashed
[ B ] broke
[ C ] roiled
[ D ] fell
33. [ A ] In
[ B ] At
[ C ] During
[ D ] On
34. [ A ] Investigate
[ B ] Investigating
[ C ] Investigated
[ D ] Investigation
35. [ A ] large
[ B ] largely
[ C ] big
[ D ] huge
36. [ A ] weighs
[ B ] weighed
[ C ] has weighed
[ D ] had weighed
37. [ A ] determined
[ B ] has determined
[ C ] was determined
[ D ] had been determined
38. [ A ] which
[ B ] who
[ C ] whom
[ D ] what
39. [A] in
B] at
[C] from
[D] on
40. [ A ] country
[ B ] nation
[ C ] countries
[ D ] place
41. [ A ] saw
[ B ] found
[ C ] heard
[ D ] witnessed
42. [ A ] ago
[ B ] before
[ C ] after
[ D ] later
43. [ A ] in
[ B ] with
[ C ] has
[ D ] have
44. [A] /
[B] for
[C] with
[D] on
45. [ A ] formed
[ B ] caused
[ C ] made
[ D ] fallen
參考譯文
在過去的一個月里，西班牙和意大利都不可思議地下起了大塊大塊的冰雹。胡安娜•桑切斯是西班牙南部阿爾梅里亞市一名70歲的老太太，她在家附近的一條街上走路時，被一個從空中落下的大冰塊砸中了肩膀，昏了過去。1月12號那天，就在離塞維里亞市約200英里處，一個9磅重的大冰球砸到了一輛汽車上，車里的男人險些被砸成重傷。l月27號晚，意大利拉魁拉市慈幼會修道院里傳出了一聲巨響，驚動了院里的牧師們。循著聲音的方向找過去；他們發現一個幾乎完整無損、巨大的冰塊砸在了他們的院子里。檢查發現這個大冰塊重達2公斤，但還是不清楚它是從哪兒來的。就在同一天，在意大利安科納市東北約l00英里處，當地官員被要求去調查一個電話報告，該報告稱有人被一塊顯然是從天上掉下來的、重l公斤的冰塊砸中了頭部。
在1月份遭巨冰襲擊的歐洲國家并不只有西班牙和意大利兩個國家。l月2號在英國薩里地區(位于倫敦的西南方向)，一個東印度男人正在牛頓運動公園里走路。突然他聽到頭頂上空傳來一聲奇怪的呼嘯聲。幾秒鐘之后，一個巨大的冰塊從朗朗青天上掉了下來，重重地摔到了松軟的土地上，整整有50英尺寬面積的土地上滿是它的碎渣。地上被砸出了一個深1英尺、直徑1英尺的坑。這塊冰碩大無比，即使是它的碎渣也有網球那么大，而且據描述它不透明，顏色和氣味也沒什么不尋常。
盡管目擊者都說他們沒有看到天空中有任何可以解釋冰塊來源的現象，但是科學家們必須找到其中的原因。地質學家杰西•馬丁內斯•弗里亞斯教授告訴英國廣播公司新聞頻道說，冰塊很可能是由于大氣中同溫層溫度突變造成的。他說，這是對這種“極為異常”現象的最可能的解釋。 |
