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回答题For the __ 26 __ month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice(冰雹) __ 27 __ rained down on Spain and Italy．Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked __ 28 __ when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk __ 29 __ she walked in a street __ 30 __ her home．On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly __ 31 __ serious injury when a 9 ponnd ball of ice __ 32 __ into his car． __ 33 __ the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in L'Aquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash． __ 34 __ the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, __ 35 __ intact．Upon examination, the block of ice __ 36 __ in at 2 kilograms and no source __ 37 __ ．On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man __ 38 __ was struck __ 39 __ the head by a 1 kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky．
Spain and Italy aren't the only European __ 40 __ getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January．
On January 2 in Surrey, England ( southwest of London), an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he __ 41 __ a strange whistling sound overhead．Seconds __ 42 __ , a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50-foot-wide area．The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter．Even the shattered re-mains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque __ 43 __ nounusual color or smell．
Although eyewitnesses to the phenomenon report that they did not see anything in the sky that could account __ 44 __ , the ice, scientists had to come up with a rationalization．Professor Jesus Mar-tinez Frias, the geologist investigating the ice falls in Spain, told BBC News that the ice pieces had probably been __ 45 __ through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere．This was the most likely explanation, he said, for the “ very unusual" phenomenon．
第26题__________ A．last
B．past
C．passed
D．early
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