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Giving girls’ names to hurricanes is a fairly new idea. It all began with a story called “storm” written by George Steward in 1941. In it a weatherman enjoyed himself by naming storms after girls he knew. He named one Maria. The story describes how Maria grew and developed, and how she changed the lives of people when she struck the system during the World WarⅡ. One of their duties was to warn American ships and planes when a storm was coming. Whenever they stopped one, they gave it a girl’s name. The first one was given a name beginning with A. The second one got a name beginning with B. They used all the letters from A to Z. This was the first list of hurricane names that followed the alphabet.
1．The “unwelcome visitors” in the first paragraph refers to .
A. the people of the United States
B. the girls
C. hurricanes
D. weathermen
2．Who wrote the story called “storm”?
A. A weatherman. B. Maria.
C. George Steward. D. A Puerto Rico man
3．For weathermen of the United States Army and Nancy one of their duties was
A. to describe the weather every day
B. to give message to the people in the city
C. to stop ships and planes when a hurricane came
D. giving orders for the planes and ships
4．Hurricanes were first given girls’ names by a .
A. writer B. doctor C. professor D. weatherman
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The first people who gave names to hurricanes were those who knew them—the people of Puerto Rico. The small island of Puerto Rico is in the West Indians, off the coast of Florida. This is where all the hurricanes begin that strike the east of the United States. The people of Puerto Rico expect some of these unwelcome visitors every year. Each one is named after the saint’s day on which it arrives. Two of the most serious storms were the Santa Ana in 1925 and the San Ciriaca in 1899.
Giving girls’ names to hurricanes is a fairly new idea. It all began with a story called “storm” written by George Steward in 1941. In it a weatherman enjoyed himself by naming storms after girls he knew. He named one Maria. The story describes how Maria grew and developed, and how she changed the lives of people when she struck the system during the World WarⅡ. One of their duties was to warn American ships and planes when a storm was coming. Whenever they stopped one, they gave it a girl’s name. The first one was given a name beginning with A. The second one got a name beginning with B. They used all the letters from A to Z. This was the first list of hurricane names that followed the alphabet.
1．The “unwelcome visitors” in the first paragraph refers to .
A. the people of the United States
B. the girls
C. hurricanes
D. weathermen
2．Who wrote the story called “storm”?
A. A weatherman. B. Maria.
C. George Steward. D. A Puerto Rico man
3．For weathermen of the United States Army and Nancy one of their duties was
A. to describe the weather every day
B. to give message to the people in the city
C. to stop ships and planes when a hurricane came
D. giving orders for the planes and ships
4．Hurricanes were first given girls’ names by a .
A. writer B. doctor C. professor D. weatherman
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Beyond two or three days，the world’s best weather forecasts are doubtful, and beyond six or seven they are worthless.
The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather—to a global forecaster，small can mean thunder—storms and blizzards（暴风雪）—any prediction becomes worse rapidly. Errors and uncertainties increase，from dust devils and storms up to continent-size eddies（旋涡）that only satellites can see.
The modern weather models work with net-like points sixty miles apart，and even so，some starting data have to be guessed，since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors placed one foot apart，rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature，pressure，humidity（温度）, and any other data a weatherman would want. Exactly at noon a powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02，then 12.03…the computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton will have sun or rain one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations（波动）that the computer will not know about. By 12.01，those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have added to the ten-foot scale，and so on up to the size of the globe.
63．A weather forecast ____________ in the world.
A．is reliable within one or two days
B．is doubtful beyond 24 hours
C．becomes useless beyond two or three days
D．is still worthwhile in seven days
64．Usually there is a weather sub-station____________.
A．in every city B．every 60 miles
C．between two cities D．every one foot
65．Which of the following statements is true？
A．People have not placed sensors one foot apart in the atmosphere.
B．Scientists have already put sensors one foot apart in the world.
C．Every sensor gives perfectly accurate data a weatherman wants.
D．Ground weather stations and satellites can see every place on earth.
66．Our computer will not be able to know about fluctuations because ____________.
A．the sensors are not good enough
B．they are hidden by the spaces between the sensors
C．they are too far away
D．they move very fast