Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
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　　For the __________26 month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice (冰雹) ________27 rained down on Spain and Italy. Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked ________ 28 when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk ________29 she walked in a street ________30 her home. On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly ________ 31 serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice ________ 32 into his car. ________33 the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in L'Aquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash. _______ 34 the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, _______ 35 intact. Upon examination, the block of ice _______ 36 in at 2 kilograms and no source _______37 . On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man _______38 was struck _______ 39 the head by a 1 kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
　　Spain and Italy aren't the only European _______40 getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January. On January 2 in Surrey, England (southwest of London), an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he _______ 41 a strange whistling sound overhead. Seconds _______ 42, a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50-foot-wide area. The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter. Even the shattered remains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque _______43 no unusual color or smell.
　　Although eyewitnesses to the phenomenon report that they did not see anything in the sky that could account _______ 44 the ice, scientists had to come up with a rationalization. Professor Jesus Martinez Frias, the geologist investigating the ice falls in Spain, told BBC News that the ice pieces had probably been _______ 45 through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere. This was the most likely explanation, he said, for the "very unusual" phenomenon.
　　26. [ A ] last
　　[ B ] past
　　[ C ] passed
　　[ D ] early
　　27. [A] was
　　[B] were
　　[C] has
　　[D] have
　　28. [ A ] conscious
　　[ B ] consciously
　　[ C ] unconscious
　　[ D ] unconsciously
　　29. [ A ] before
　　[ B ] after
　　[ C ] as
　　[ D ] since
　　30. [ A ] at
　　[ B ] in
　　[ C ] along
　　[ D ] near
　　31. [A] escaped
　　[B] went
　　[C] attacked
　　[D] got
　　32. [ A ] smashed
　　[ B ] broke
　　[ C ] roiled
　　[ D ] fell
　　33. [ A ] In
　　[ B ] At
　　[ C ] During
　　[ D ] On
　　34. [ A ] Investigate
　　[ B ] Investigating
　　[ C ] Investigated
　　[ D ] Investigation
　　35. [ A ] large
　　[ B ] largely
　　[ C ] big
　　[ D ] huge
　　36. [ A ] weighs
　　[ B ] weighed
　　[ C ] has weighed
　　[ D ] had weighed
　　37. [ A ] determined
　　[ B ] has determined
　　[ C ] was determined
　　[ D ] had been determined
　　38. [ A ] which
　　[ B ] who
　　[ C ] whom
　　[ D ] what
　　39. [A] in
　　B] at
　　[C] from
　　[D] on
　　40. [ A ] country
　　[ B ] nation
　　[ C ] countries
　　[ D ] place
　　41. [ A ] saw
　　[ B ] found
　　[ C ] heard
　　[ D ] witnessed
　　42. [ A ] ago
　　[ B ] before
　　[ C ] after
　　[ D ] later
　　43. [ A ] in
　　[ B ] with
　　[ C ] has
　　[ D ] have
　　44. [A] /
　　[B] for
　　[C] with
　　[D] on
　　45. [ A ] formed
　　[ B ] caused
　　[ C ] made
　　 [ D ] fallen
　　參考譯文
　　在過(guò)去的一個(gè)月里，西班牙和意大利都不可思議地下起了大塊大塊的冰雹。胡安娜•桑切斯是西班牙南部阿爾梅里亞市一名70歲的老太太，她在家附近的一條街上走路時(shí)，被一個(gè)從空中落下的大冰塊砸中了肩膀，昏了過(guò)去。1月12號(hào)那天，就在離塞維里亞市約200英里處，一個(gè)9磅重的大冰球砸到了一輛汽車上，車?yán)锏哪腥穗U(xiǎn)些被砸成重傷。l月27號(hào)晚，意大利拉魁拉市慈幼會(huì)修道院里傳出了一聲巨響，驚動(dòng)了院里的牧師們。循著聲音的方向找過(guò)去；他們發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)幾乎完整無(wú)損、巨大的冰塊砸在了他們的院子里。檢查發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)大冰塊重達(dá)2公斤，但還是不清楚它是從哪兒來(lái)的。就在同一天，在意大利安科納市東北約l00英里處，當(dāng)?shù)毓賳T被要求去調(diào)查一個(gè)電話報(bào)告，該報(bào)告稱有人被一塊顯然是從天上掉下來(lái)的、重l公斤的冰塊砸中了頭部。
　　在1月份遭巨冰襲擊的歐洲國(guó)家并不只有西班牙和意大利兩個(gè)國(guó)家。l月2號(hào)在英國(guó)薩里地區(qū)(位于倫敦的西南方向)，一個(gè)東印度男人正在牛頓運(yùn)動(dòng)公園里走路。突然他聽到頭頂上空傳來(lái)一聲奇怪的呼嘯聲。幾秒鐘之后，一個(gè)巨大的冰塊從朗朗青天上掉了下來(lái)，重重地摔到了松軟的土地上，整整有50英尺寬面積的土地上滿是它的碎渣。地上被砸出了一個(gè)深1英尺、直徑1英尺的坑。這塊冰碩大無(wú)比，即使是它的碎渣也有網(wǎng)球那么大，而且據(jù)描述它不透明，顏色和氣味也沒什么不尋常。
　　盡管目擊者都說(shuō)他們沒有看到天空中有任何可以解釋冰塊來(lái)源的現(xiàn)象，但是科學(xué)家們必須找到其中的原因。地質(zhì)學(xué)家杰西•馬丁內(nèi)斯•弗里亞斯教授告訴英國(guó)廣播公司新聞?lì)l道說(shuō)，冰塊很可能是由于大氣中同溫層溫度突變?cè)斐傻�。他說(shuō)，這是對(duì)這種“極為異常”現(xiàn)象的最可能的解釋。