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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E
解析 形容词辨析题。空格前是不定冠词a，后面是名词trend，因此本空应填入形容词。空格所在句意思是，该团队现在表示从1979年到2017年有一个________飓风变强的趋势。综合全文可知，飓风因全球变暖而增强。这是比较明显的，可察觉的，因此本空应填入含有“明显，显著”或“可发觉的”意义的形容词，故本题答案为E)detectable。其他备选形容词均没有此含义，因此排除。
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