下面的短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第1~4段每段选择1个最佳标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
Nice Name But
She’s So Deadly 1 More than a million people in the United States
were told to leave their homes over the weekend as Hurricane (飓风) Dennis headed
to the Gulf coast, after killing at least 15 people in the Caribbean Sea. 2
If you read the news often enough, you may notice that all hurricanes are
given names. Why is that Remember, there can be more than one hurricane
operating at one time. Without naming them, we could get confused about which
storm we’re talking about. 3 For hundreds of years, hurricanes in the
Caribbean were named after the particular religious day on which they occurred.
One Australian meteorologist (气象学家) began giving women’s names to tropical
storms at the end of the 19th century, in 1953, the US National Weather Service,
which is responsible for tracking hurricanes and issuing warnings, began using
female names for storms. By 19791 both women and men’s names were being used.
One name for each letter of the alphabet (字母表) is selected, except for Q, U and
Z. 4 So who decides which names are used each year The World
Meteorological Organization uses six lists in rotation, so each list is reused
every six years. 5 Here’s a list of the 2005 Atlantic hurricanes,
according to the US National Hurricane Centre: Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis,
Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, Katrina, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia,
Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma. Paragraph 3______