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2012年8月11日雅思阅读考题回顾 来源：朗阁培训中心　　编辑：xm　　发布日期:2012-08-20 摘要：厦门朗阁培训中心为烤鸭们整理了8月11日雅思阅读真题回顾以及备考建议。 考试日期： 2012年8月11日 Reading Passage 1 Title: El Ni?o Phenomenon厄尔尼诺 Question types: TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN Summary 填空 文章内容回顾 关于厄尔尼诺现象的介绍以及它产生的影响 英文原文阅读 The term El Ni?o—Spanish for the Christ Child—was originally used by fishermen to refer to the Pacific Ocean warm currents near the coasts of Peru and Ecuador that appeared periodically around Christmas time and lasted for a few months. Due to those currents, fish were much less abundant than usual. At the present time we use the same name for the large-scale warming of surface waters of the Pacific Ocean every 3-6 years, which usually lasts for 9-12 months, but may continue for up to 18 months, and dramatically affects the weather worldwide. El Ni?o events happen irregularly. Their strength is estimated in surface atmospheric pressure anomalies and anomalies of land and sea surface temperatures. The El Ni?o phenomenon dramatically affects the weather in many parts of the world. It is therefore important to predict its appearance. Various climate models, seasonal forecasting models, ocean-atmosphere coupled models, and statistical models attempt to predict El Ni?o as a part of interannual climate variability. Predicting El Ni?o has been possible only since the 1980s, when the power of computers became sufficient to cover very complicated large-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions. El Ni?os Impact The strongest El Ni?o events of the 20th century occurred in 1982-83 and in1997-98. The effects of 1982-83 included significant storms throughout the southwest United States and one of Australias worst droughts of the century. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the 1997-98 El Ni?o was a major factor in 1997s record high temperatures. The estimated average surface temperature for land and sea worldwide was0.8°Fhigher than the 1961-1990 average of61.7°F. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati