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中考完形填空20篇附答案 1 Elephants in the Sky Ever wonder how much a cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist （气象学者 ）has done some estimates and the results might 1s you. Let’s start with a very 2s white cloud - a cumulus cloud积云. How much does the water in a cumulus cloud weigh? Peggy LeMone did the numbers. “The water in the 3 l cloud weighs about 550 tons,” she calculates. “Or if you want to convert 转换it to4 s that might be a little more meaningful … think of elephants.”Assume an elephant weighs about six tons, she says, that would 5m something that water inside a typical cumulous cloud would weigh about one6 h elep hants. The7 t of a hundred elephants-weight of water suspended 悬挂 in the sky begs8 a question - what keeps it9u there?“First of all, the water isn’t in elephant sized particles, it’s in tiny tiny tiny particles,” 10e LeMone.And those particles float漂on the 11w air that’s rising below. But 12s , the truth of so much water floating in the sky was 13s even to a meteorologist14 l LeMone.“I had no idea how much a cloud would weigh, 15a , when I started the calculations,” she says.So how many elephant units of water are16 i a big storm cloud … 10 times bigger than the cumulus cloud? Again, LeMone did the numbers: About 200,000 elephants. Now, it’s up to the calculations for a hurricane and the figures get17 r massive.The result? Forty million elephants. That means the water in one hurricane weighs more than 18a the elephants on the planet. 19P even more than all the elephants that have 20e lived on the planet. 1surprise2simple3little4something5mean6hundred7thought8another9up10explains11warmer 12still13surprising t14 like 15actually, 16inside17 really18all19Perhaps20ever 2 Air is all around us. We cannot