Номер B, страница 119 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

9. It`s a weird, wonderful world. Practise your English - номер B, страница 119.

Условие.

B Read the news article quickly and answer these questions.

1 Which freak weather picture from A does it describe?

2 What cause is suggested?

Great balls of ... ice

We talk about 1... rain, but it's just an expression, right? Well, you'd better think again! The weight of some objects falling to Earth recently is very worrying. The objects are huge balls of ice and they have been crashing to the ground all over the place.

The biggest ice ball yet recorded fell in Brazil. This bolt from the 2... weighed 200 kilos, was the size of a fridge and landed in a car showroom. 'If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes,' said Fabio Souza, a cleaner at the showroom, 'I wouldn't have believed it. It's a miracle that no one was 3...'. The same is true for pensioner Jan Kenkel. If she had been in her living room when a 22 kilo chunk of ice fell on her house in Iowa, she may have been killed.

Scientists, who have called the balls 'megacryometeors', are 4... confused by the phenomenon. First of all, you don't have to live in cold countries to get one in your back garden. They have fallen in parts of Africa that never experience 5... temperatures. What's more, they often fall from clear blue skies.

So what's going on? Some people think that these balls can't form naturally because they are just too large. They think the balls must form on aeroplanes high 6..., then break off and fall to Earth. Whatever the cause, it looks like we now have one more extreme weather 7... to worry about.

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