問題詳情
請依下文回答第 26 題至第 30 題： It seemed like a curse. The summer of 821 was wet, cold and yielded a poor harvest. Then winter came.Temperatures plunged. Blizzards smothered towns and villages. The Danube, the Rhine and the Seine – rivers thatnever froze – froze so hard that the ice covering them could be crossed not just on foot but by horse and cart. Nordid spring bring respite. Terrible hailstorms followed the snow. Plague and famine followed the storms. The nextfew winters were worse. Fear stalked the land. Paschasius Radbertus, a monk of Corbie, in what is now northernFrance, wrote that God Himself was angry. Yet it was not God that wrought this destruction, according to UlfBüntgen of the University of Cambridge, but rather a volcano now called Katla, on what was then an unknownisland, now called Iceland. At the moment Katla, one of Iceland’s largest volcanoes, located near the island’s southern tip, sleepsbeneath 700 metres of ice. It has so slept, albeit fitfully, for almost 100 years. Its last eruption big enough to breakthrough the ice was in 1918. A score of such ice-breaking awakenings have been recorded by Icelanders since thefirst Norsemen settled there in 870. In 821, however, Iceland was not on the Norsemen’s horizon. They wereconcentrating their activities on the lootable monasteries and villages of coastal Europe. There is thus noman-made record of what Katla was up to then. But Dr. Büntgen thinks he has found a natural one. Amemorandum of an eruption that coincides with the events described by Radbertus is, he believes, written in aprehistoric forest. Large volcanic eruptions can affect the weather. In particular they eject sulphur dioxide, which reacts withatmospheric gases to form sulphate aerosols that reflect sunlight back into the space, cooling the air beneath. Thatis well known. So the suspicion that what happened in the early 820s was precipitated by such an eruption hasbeen around for a long time.
【題組】 26 Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the winter of 821 in Europe in the first paragraph?
(A)It was the coldest one in the early 820s.
(B)The big rivers – the Danube, the Rhine and the Seine – froze.
(C)The next spring did not make things better.
(D)It subsequently brought fear among people.
參考答案
答案：A
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(1),D(0),E(0)