2016届上海市高三英语一模——十选九
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A. advance
B. similar C. destruction D. cease E. increase
F. defined G. approaches H. miserable I. populated J. shifts
People rarely feel as helpless as they do when attacked by the threat of severe storms. There is nothing that can prevent a hurricane (飓风) or tornado from causing destruction if it reaches a
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area. History offers numerous examples of storms that have destroyed large numbers of homes and killed many people. But today things are not as
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as they were in the past. By studying the conditions that cause storms, weather forecasters are better able to predict them and give people in their paths the warning needed in
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to keep away from tragedy.
A storm is
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as a sudden, extreme change in the normal conditions of Earth’s atmosphere. Examples include a large flood of moisture (湿气) or a sharp increase in wind speed. These types of
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are generally caused by a dramatic change in air pressure. In fact, air pressure often affects weather more than any other factors.
Hurricanes are somewhat
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to tornadoes because both produce atmospheric vortices. Vortices are cone-shaped depression (低气压) of high-speed winds that can cause a large lot of
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