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Unit 4 Topic 2 阅读写作综合
一、完形填空。
There are different kinds of 1 . A hurricane(飓风) has the fastest winds of 74 miles per hour. A tropical storm has winds of 39 miles per hour. All of these storms bring 2 rain. They can also cause flooding.
Hurricane season usually 3 from June 1st to November 30. Each storm gets a name. There have been a lot of hurricanes that weather scientists are 4 of names for them.
Atlantic tropical storms have been named 5 the early 1950s. Today, storm names come from six lists of 21 names. The names are normally 6 every six years. For example, a storm named Wilfred took the last name on the 2020 list. And it may appear on the list of storm names in 7 .But some will be 8 the list if they are given to a very destructive(毁灭性的) storm.
Now, storms have to get their names from the Greek alphabet. So far two storms have 9 had Greek names. They were named Alpha and Beta. Alpha hit Portugal and its winds blew at 45 miles per hour. Beta hit the US and it had 30-mile-per-hour winds. No one knows for certain what the 10 Greek name will be on the list of storm names.
1. A. winds B. storms C. hurricanes
2. A. little B. weak C. strong
3. A. lasts B. gets C. turns
4. A. getting out B. running out C. taking out
5. A. in B. before C. since
6. A. reduced B. reused C. recycled
7. A. 2022 B. 2024 C. 2026
8. A. taken over B. taken off C. put away
9. A. already B. just C. ever
10. A. first B. second C. third
二、阅读理解。
Tianwen-1, China’s first Mars probe(探测器), successfully entered Mars orbit(轨道) in 2021. It was about to stay in orbit for about three months before landing on the red planet.
A small step on the red planet will be a big step for human beings. Humans have launched 46 Mars exploration missions since 1960, but only 19 of them have been successful. It was China’s first spacecraft to Mars, and the missions were rather ambitio