A country's latitude, or distance from the equator,has animportant effect on its climate. In places locating at low latitudes,or near the equator, like__1__ Ecuador and northern Brazil, theamount of sunshine changes the most during the years. At mid-latitudes, in __2__ places like Japan or Argentina, there is lesssunshine__3__ in the summer than in winter. The greatestchange occurs at the highest latitudes, in places like northernCanada and Alaska. In these places, the nights are very long for half the year, and the days arelong during other half. At the North or South Pole, sunlight lasts __4__ the longest during thewinter. But light and heat are __5__ the most intense at the equator.
Altitude and distance from the sea also affect climate.The thin air in the high mountain areas absorbless of the __6__ sun's heat than the thicker air at sea level. The daily change in temperature alsoincreases with distance from the sea. Snow and rain are not very important to __7__ climate.Snow reflects as much as eighty or ninety percent of the heat from the sun, and making the__8__ weather even colder. But a large forest area can reflect as little as five percent of the sun'sheat. This makes the weather warmer. Of course, the general effects of climate do not explaineverything about the weather.For example, either the driest places in the world and __9__ theplace with the most rainy days are located in Chile.Calama, in the Atacama Desert, has had no rainover__10__ 400 years. But during the year 1916, it rained in Bahia Felix, Chile for 348 days.
參考答案及解析:
1. locating—located.locate作位于解釋時，常常用被動語態(tài)
2. most—least.根據(jù)上下文及常識，低緯度或赤道地區(qū)的日照量變化最小
3. less—more.常識告訴我們，諸如日本，阿根廷等緯度不高不低的國家或地區(qū)，夏季的日照要比冬季的日照多得多
4. 在other前加the.是指另外半年。other用于the、my、your、his等之后與一單一名詞連用，意義為“兩個中的另一個”
5. winter—summer.根據(jù)常識或科普知識可得
6. absorb—absorbs.the thin air是動詞absorbs的主語
7. 刪除not我們的常識和下文Snow reflects as much as eighty or ninety percent of the heat fromthe sun, and making the weather even colder.能充分說明如果該句中有not一次是徹底錯誤的。
8. making—makes.makes the weather even colder由and鏈接reflects as much as eighty or ninetypercent of the heat from the sun
9. either—both.首先是下文的and;其次，謂語動詞是are located
10. 在over前插入for.for用于表示一段時間，作為時間狀語，其修飾的謂語動詞常常用完成時。