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    For the 26 month.mysterious falls of large chunks of ice(冰雹) 27 rained down on Spain and Italy.Juana Sanchez。a 70一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 l2,just about 200 miles away in Seville,a man narrowly 3l serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice32into his car.33 me evening of January 27 priests  at the salesian monastery in L,Aquila,Italy were startled by.a loud crash. 34 the noise,the dlscovered 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 l00 miles northeast in Ancona,Italy,the local officials were called to investigate the report of a maIl 38 was struck
    39 the head by a l kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
spain and Italy area"the only European40 getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January On JaIluary 2 in Surrey,England(southwest of London),an East Indian man was walkingthrough Newton Amletic Park when he41a strange whistling sound overhead.‘Seconds 42 ,a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded in‘to the soft ground,shattering over a 50 foot—wide area.The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in di锄eter. Even the shattered remnins of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque 43 no unusual 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 t}lat me ice Dieces had probably been 45through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere.nlis was the most like1y explanation,he said,for the‘‘very unusual”phenomenon.

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B . past
C . passed
D . early

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    For the 26 month.mysterious falls of large chunks of ice(冰雹) 27 rained down on Spain and Italy.Juana Sanchez。a 70一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 l2,just about 200 miles away in Seville,a man narrowly 3l serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice32into his car.33 me evening of January 27 priests  at the salesian monastery in L,Aquila,Italy were startled by.a loud crash. 34 the noise,the dlscovered 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 l00 miles northeast in Ancona,Italy,the local officials were called to investigate the report of a maIl 38 was struck
    39 the head by a l kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
spain and Italy area"the only European40 getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January On JaIluary 2 in Surrey,England(southwest of London),an East Indian man was walkingthrough Newton Amletic Park when he41a strange whistling sound overhead.‘Seconds 42 ,a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded in‘to the soft ground,shattering over a 50 foot—wide area.The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in di锄eter. Even the shattered remnins of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque 43 no unusual 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 t}lat me ice Dieces had probably been 45through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere.nlis was the most like1y explanation,he said,for the‘‘very unusual”phenomenon.
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在过去的一个月里,西班牙和意大利都不可思议地下起了大块大块的冰雹。胡安娜.桑切斯是西班牙南部阿尔梅里亚市一名70岁的老太太。她在家附近的一条街上走路时,被一个从空中落下的大冰块砸中了肩膀,昏了过去。1月12号那天,就在离塞维里亚市约200英里处,一个9磅重的大冰球砸到了一辆汽车上,车里的男人险些被砸成重伤。l月27
号晚,意大利拉魁拉市慈幼会修道院里传出了一声巨响,惊动了院里的牧师们。循着声音的方向找过去,他们发现一个几乎完整无损、巨大的冰块砸在了他们的院子里。检查发现这个大冰块重达2公斤,但还是不清楚它是从哪儿来的。就在同一天,在意大利安科纳市东北约100英里处,当地官员被要求去调查一个电话报告,该报告称有人被一块显然是从天上
掉下来的、重l公斤的冰块砸中了头部。在1月份遭巨冰袭击的欧洲国家并不只有西班牙和意大利两个国家。l月2号在英国萨里地区(位于伦敦的西南A-向),一个东印度男人
正在牛顿运动公园里走路。突然他听到头顶上空传来一声奇怪的呼啸声。几秒钟之后,一个巨大的冰块从朗朗青天上掉了下来,重重地摔到了松软的土地上,整整有50英尺宽面积的土地上满是它的碎渣。地上被砸出了一个深1英尺、直径1英尺的坑。这块冰硕大无比,即使是它的碎渣也有网球那么大,而且据描述它不透明,颜色和气味也没什么不寻常。尽管目击者都说他们没有看到天空中有任何可以解释冰块来源的现象,但是科学家们必须找到其中的原因。地质学家杰西·马丁内斯’弗里亚斯教授告诉英国广播公司新闻频道说,冰块很可能是由于大气中同温层温度突变造成的。他说,这是对这种“极为异常”现象的最可能的解
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【解析】这里需要一个形容词修饰month,C是动词可以排除,而句子意思是“在过去的一个月里”,只有B可以表达这个意思,故选B。

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