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New York, winter Listen and complete the sentences. * New York, summer * Sydney, summer * Sydney, autumn * Complete the sentences. 1. It’s sunny now, but let’s take an umbrella… (rain later) …because it may / might / will probably rain later. …it may / might be very cold. 2. It is not always warm in February, and …(cold) * …we may / will probably swim in the sea. 3. It’s usually hot and sunny so we… (swim in the sea) 4. Buy a good map because we … (visit the city) … we may / will probably visit the city. * The wettest place * Amazon rainforest * The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world. The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the Lungs of our Planet because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. * 10% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest. 20% of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon rainforest. It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species as well as over 40,000 plant species. There are also a number of dangerous species living in the Amazon rainforest such as the cougar (美洲狮), jaguar (美洲豹) and anaconda (水蟒). * While the protection of the Amazon rainforest remains an issue, deforestation (滥伐森林) rates have been reducing while areas of conserved land have been increasing over the last 10 years. In both 2005 and 2010 the Amazon rainforest suffered severe droughts that killed off large amounts of vegetation (植物) in the worst affected areas. A recent study by climate change experts suggests that a 3 °C rise in world temperatures by the year 2010 would destroy around 75% of the Amazon. * 翻译下面的句子 1.可能会下雪 2. 这里很有可能是晴天而且炎热 3.带一张地图因为你可能想要到处转转