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check. From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2307/230720-heatwaves.html
1) Scientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer, hotter
______ a. and more frequently
b. and more frequency
c. and more frequented
d. and more frequent
2) In Spain and Italy, the temperature ______
a. raise to 46ºC
b. roses to 46ºC
c. roads to 46ºC
d. rolls to 46ºC
3) Many European countries and Japan have ______
a. issued head alerts
b. issued heat alerts
c. issued heart alerts
d. issued heath alerts
4) They advised people to stay in the shade and drink
______ a. plenty off water
b. plenty of watery
c. plenty of water
d. plenty of waters
5) The U.N. weather agency has warned Europe's ______
a. heatwave could continual
b. heatwave could continue
c. heatwave could continues
d. heatwave could continued
6) the United Nations warned of the need to cut ______
a. greenhouse gas emission
b. greenhouse gasses emissions
c. greenhouse gassy emissions
d. greenhouse gas emissions
7) It is having a major impact on human health ______
a. and watery supplies
b. and waters supplies
c. and water supplies
d. and watered supplies
8) We have to step up efforts to ______
a. help society adapt
b. help society adept
c. help society adopt
d. help society add up
9) A woman who wanted to ______
a. escape a heat
b. escape the heat
c. escape their heat
d. escape there heat
10) by going to Rome complained that the Italian ______
a. capital was heater
b. capital was hater
c. capital was hotter
d. capital was hotly
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gaps From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2307/230720-heatwaves.html
The United Nations weather agency has (1) ____________________
temperatures are "the new normal". Scientists say climate change is (2)
____________________, hotter and more frequent. Many countries have
been experiencing record hot weather in the past week. In parts of the
USA and China, the (3) ____________________ 50ºC (122ºF). In Death
Valley, California, it was 53.9ºC; and in Xinjiang, China, it got up to
52.2ºC. In Spain and Italy, the (4) ____________________ 46ºC. Many
European countries and Japan have (5) ____________________. They
advised people to stay in the shade and (6) ____________________
water. The U.N. weather agency has warned Europe's heatwave could
continue for another month.
A spokesperson for the United Nations warned of the (7)
____________________ greenhouse gas emissions. He said: "Extreme
weather is increasing in frequency in our warming climate. It is having a
(8) ____________________ human health…and water supplies." He added:
"We have to step up efforts to (9) ____________________ to what is
unfortunately becoming the new normal." The European Travel
Commission said the extreme heat is making holidaymakers change (10)
____________________. People who used to holiday in Spain, Italy and
Greece are choosing to go to cooler countries instead. A woman who
wanted to "(11) ____________________" by going to Rome complained
that the Italian (12) ____________________ than her hometown in Texas.
