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The most powerful storms on our planet have grown substantially stronger. Almost forty years’ worth of hurricane satellite image

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问题     The most powerful storms on our planet have grown substantially stronger. Almost forty years’ worth of hurricane satellite imagery suggests a warming planet might be【C1】________the changes.
    According to the data, the【C2】________of a hurricane developing into a category 3 storm or greater, with sustained winds of over 177 kilometers per hour, has increased by about 8 percent every decade since 1979. "Our results show that these storms have become stronger on global and【C3】________levels, which is consistent with【C4】________of how hurricanes respond to a warming world," says climate scientist James Kossin.
    Climate researchers have long suspected there would be an increase in stronger hurricanes, since warmer ocean temperatures and added moisture in the【C5】________tend to energize these storms. Real-world data, however, has been trickier to come by. Hurricanes—also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, depending on where they originate—only【C6】________sporadically (零散地), and can be difficult to study. Plus, these storms are often ignored if they don’t【C7】________impact upon on humans.
    "The main hurdle we have for finding trends is that the data are collected using the best technology at the time," says Kossin. "Each new satellite has new tools and【C8】________data in different ways, so in the end we have a patchwork quilt of all the satellite data that have been woven together. "
    Thanks to computers though, which can help us to【C9】________satellite images of storms around the world, the team has now shown that from 1979 to 2017 there was a【C10】________trend toward stronger hurricanes—and this matches up consistently with greenhouse warming simulations.
    A) appear      F) directly      K)  likelihood
    B) atmosphere  G) expectations   L)  power
    C) captures    H) fueling       M) randomly
    D) describe    I) incidence      N)  regional
    E) detectable  J) interpret        O) various
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答案K
解析 名词辨析题。空格前有定冠词the，后面是介词of，因此应填入名词。空格所在句意思是，数据显示，自1979年以来，飓风发展成持续风速超过每小时177公里的3级或更强风暴的________每十年增加约8％。由句意可知，飓风有可能发展成3级或更强风暴，因此本空应填入含有“可能”意义的名词，故本题答案为K)likelihood。其他备选名词均没有此含义。因此排除。
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