专题 04 极端天气不再罕见--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (4) Floods and fires洪水和火灾 Extreme no more极端天气不再罕见 主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：自然灾害与防范 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） The Wilsons river broke its banks on the night of February 27th while Lismore, a town of around 30,000 in New South Wales, was sleeping. Its residents snoozed（打盹儿） through early-hours emergency warnings that “risk to life was imminent（迫在眉睫）”. Within hours the town was submerged（淹没的）. Residents scrambled into their attics（阁楼）. Mothers carried children onto rooftops. An army of locals launched tin boats into the floods to save them. Four people died. Eastern Australia has been hammered by what politicians call “once-in-1,000-year” flooding. It has already had a soggy（浸水的） summer because of La Niña, a phenomenon which triggers downpours there. Then on February 23rd, meteorologists warned that an area of low pressure was forming over southern Queensland. It sucked moisture（水分） from the sea, forming an “atmospheric river（大气层河流）” over the east coast