【解析】

28.【题干】_____ 【答案】fascinating 【解析】

29.【题干】_____ 【答案】made up of 【解析】

30.【题干】_____ 【答案】Now and then 【解析】

31.【题干】_____ 【答案】combine with 【解析】

32.【题干】_____ 【答案】generally 【解析】

33.【题干】_____ 【答案】characteristics 【解析】

34.【题干】_____ 【答案】phenomenon 【解析】

35.【题干】_____

【答案】naked

【解析】

36.【题干】_____

【答案】relatively

【解析】

PartⅢ Reading Comprehension

Section A

For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December_____(37)early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two_____(38), 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_____(39), and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.

Enjoy the snow now, because_____(40)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 EI Niuo year.

EI niuo, Spanish for \child\_____(41)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_____(42)energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are_____(43)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_____(44)dry weather. Marine life may be affected too; EI Ninos can_____(45)the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich(营养丰富的)water that supports large fish_____(46), and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).

37.【题干】_____

【选项】

A.additional额外的

B.associated 关联的

C.bore碰巧

D.chances机会

E.communicated交流

F.decades十年

G.experiences经历

H.globally全球地

I.logically逻辑上

J.occurs发生

K.populations人口，总和

L.realize认识到

M.reduce减少

N.saw看见

O.specific特定的

【答案】N

【解析】第一缺少谓语，优先考虑动词，结合语义并根据Late November and December可以推出应选择过去式动词，故答案是saw.

38.【题干】_____

【选项】

A.additional

B.associated

C.bore

D.chances

E.communicated

F.decades

G.experiences

H.globally

I.logically

J.occurs

K.populations

L.realize

M.reduce

N.saw

O.specific

【答案】F

【解析】根据two，首选复数名词，结合语义，“the two decades”, 二十年来头一次。

39.【题干】_____

【选项】

A.additional

B.associated

C.bore

D.chances

E.communicated

F.decades

for the first time in