How hurricanes (飓风) get their names
The first people who gave names to hurricanes were those who knew them best the people of Puerto Rico. The small island of Puerto Rico is in the West Indies, off the coast of the United States. _______1_______. The people Puerto Rico expect some of these unwelcome visitors every years. Each one is named after the saint’s day on which it arrives.
Giving girls’ names to hurricanes is a fairly new idea. It all began with a story called “storm”. Written by gorge Stewart in 1941. ________2________. He named one Maria. The story describes how Maria grew and develop, and how she changed the lives of people when she struck the United States.
Weathermen of the U.S. Army and Navy used the same system during World War II. They were studying weather conditions over the pacific ocean.________3_________. Whenever they spotted one, they gave it a girl’s name. The first one of the year was given a name beginning with A. The second one got a name beginning with a B. They used all the letters from A to W, and still the storms kept coming. They had to use three lists from A to W to have enough names to go around. This was the first list of hurricane names that followed the alphabet(字母表).
This system worked out fine as long as weather reports talked about only one hurricane at a time, but one week in September 1950 there were three hurricanes at the same time. Then thing began to get confused. ______4_______. In 1952, the weatherman decided to solve the problem by giving each hurricane a name of its own, in alphabetical order. The first list read: Alice, Barbara, Carol, Dolly, Edna, Florence, Gilda…
Some women become angry because hurricanes are given their names. They sometimes complain to the weather bureau. _______5______. Because more women seem to like it than dislike it, the weather bureau has decided to continue using girls’ names for hurricanes.
A. But many other women are proud to see their names make headlines.
B. In some ways a hurricane is like a person: it grows, develops, and then becomes old and dies.
C. Some people got the hurricane mixed up and didn’t know which was which.
D. Often they pass near Puerto Rico or cross it on their way north.
E. One of their duties was to warm American ships and planes when storm was coming
F. In it, a weatherman amused himself by naming storms after girls he knew.
3. ________________.
E
