2014年4月27日托福阅读真题P2+题目+答案：The Climate of Japan

4月27日考试的三篇托福阅读真题分别为：Economic Decline in Europe During the Fourteenth Century、The Climate of Japan、Urban Development in the United States in the Nineteenth Century。具体真题，请不要错过以下内容。

2014年4月27日托福阅读真题P2+题目+答案：The Climate of Japan

At the most general level, two major climatic forces determine Japan’s weather. Prevailing westerly winds move across Eurasia, sweep over the Japanese islands, and continue eastward across the Pacific Ocean. In addition, great cyclonic airflows (masses of rapidly circulating air) that arise over the western equatorial Pacific move in a wheel-like fashion northeastward across Japan and nearby regions. During winter months heavy masses of cold air from Siberia dominate the weather around Japan. Persistent cold winds skim across the Sea of Japan from the northwest, picking up moisture that they deposit as several feet of snow on the western side of the mountain ranges on Honshu Island. As the cold air drops its moisture, it flows over high ridges and down eastern slopes to bring cold, relatively dry weather to valleys and coastal plains and cities.

1. According to paragraph 1, all of the following are true of the cold air from Siberia EXCEPT:

A It gathers moisture as it moves across the Sea of Japan.

B It is responsible for the snow that falls on the western side of Honshu Island.

C It is warmed by the cyclonic airflows from the south that mix with it.

D It is responsible for the cold, dry weather of the eastern valleys and coastal plains and cities. Paragraph 1 is marked with an arrow [→].

In spring the Siberian air mass warms and loses density, enabling atmospheric currents over the Pacific to steer warmer air into northeast Asia. This warm, moisture-laden air covers most of southern Japan during June and July. The resulting late spring rains then give way to a drier summer that is sufficiently hot and muggy, d espite the island chain’s northerly latitude, to allow widespread rice cultivation.

2. The word “enabling” in the passage is closet in meaning to

A.preparing

B.requiring

C.allowing

D.distributing

3. Why does the author include the phrase “despite the island chain’s northerly latitude” in the paragraph?

A.To indicate that one would not expect such hot, muggy weather at Japan’s latitude

B. To compare Japan’s climate to the climates of more northerly latitudes

C. To give a reason for the hot, muggy weather experienced in Japan during the summer

D. To explain why Japan’s climate is only suitable for rice cultivation

Summer heat is followed by the highly unpredictable autumn rains that accompany the violent tropical windstorms known as typhoons. These cyclonic storms originate over the western Pacific and travel in great clockwise arcs, initially heading west toward the Philippines and southern China, curving northward later in the season. Cold weather drives these storms eastward across Japan through early autumn, revitalizing the Siberian air mass and ushering in a new annual weather cycle.

4. According to paragraph 3, all of the following are true of autumn storms EXCEPT:

A. They involve rain combined with tropical windstorms

B. Cyclonic storms have a predictable pattern of travel.

C.Their movement creates a weather cycle that repeats itself.

D. They begin as northern Siberian air masses with consistent rains following the summer heat.

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