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湖北省襄阳市第四中学2020届高三上学期英语9月联考试卷
The heat wave that broke high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, (cause) the surface of the islands vast ice sheet to melt at near-record levels and a huge (lose) of ice in the Arctic. On Wednesday alone, more than 10 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt, which is equal about 4,000,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.
Melting (increase) in recent decades because of climate change and has been decreasing accumulation from snow. Previously, during the 1970s and the 1980s, Greenland lost average of 50 billion tons of ice each year. From 2010 to 2018, that figure shot up to 290 billion tons (annual). This summer, the extent of the melt could surpass (超过) the record set in 2012, about 97% of the ice sheets surface began to melt. NASA-JPL Caltech reported at the time.
Greenland, the worlds largest island, (lie) between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with 82 per cent of its surface (cover) in ice. A June 2019 study by scientists in the U. S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters to the rising (globe) sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted, which would take centuries, the world's oceans would rise by 7.2 meters.
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