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Tham khảo tài liệu 'invidual long turn 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS Dropwindsonde information is fed into a special meteorological computer in Maryland which generates a global computer model of wind patterns. Data analysts have discovered a greater variability in the winds at sea level than previously believed but many forecasting problems are beyond a solution at least for the time being. For instance it is not yet known why hurricanes can suddenly change in intensity current computer models often fail to predict whether a hurricane will reach land or else cannot pinpoint where a strike will take place. One surprising result of a recent computer simulation was the destruction of a large part of downtown New York. Hurricane researchers believe that the city is more likely than Miami to suffer a direct hit in the near future. Also certain geographical features of the coastline near New York make it conceivable that a wall of water called a storm surge pushed ashore by hurricane winds would cause a devastating flooding of Manhattan. A storm surge was responsible for the more than 8000 deaths caused by the hurricane that destroyed the city of Galveston in 1900. 1 the custom of naming hurricanes began in the early 1950s 2 hurricanes are categorised according to their wind speed from Category 1 least intense to Category 5 most intense Questions 1 - 4 6 You are advised to spend about 5 minutes on Questions 1-4. 8 Refer to Reading Passage 1 Tracking Hurricanes and look at Questions 1 - 4 below. Write 26-27 your answers in boxes 1 - 4 on your Answer Sheet. The first one has been done for you as an example. 9 Example What do the letters NOAA stand for Ql. Which instruments have recently increased the success rate of . hurricane forecasts 56 Q2. What reason is given for the lack of knowledge of hurricanes at sea 52-54 Q3. Why was the hurricane which struck in 1926 not given a name 54 591 Q4. What is the name of the strongest hurricane mentioned in the article Check 11-15 114 Practice Test Two Questions 5-11 .