高考英语一轮复习Unit 4 Global warming单元检测卷 新人教版选修6.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 4 Unit 4 Global warming Ⅰ.阅读理解 Measuring a Hurricane by Sound Underwater There are a couple of ways to forecast the destructive potential of a hurricane so that people in harm’s way can take adequate precautions. Satellite images of cloud patterns can be analyzed to estimate peak wind speeds, but the estimates are often way off the mark. Specialized aircraft can fly into a storm to measure the winds directly, but the flights are costly. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology come up with a third way: listening to a storm underwater. In a paper to be published in