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When people talk about seasons, they usually mean winter, spring, summer and autumn. But do you know there is (1) ________ a hurricane (飓风) season? For people living in the United States, the hurricane season (2) ________ in June and ends in late November. Hurricanes can happen at other times, (3) ________ most hurricanes happen during the summer and autumn months.01
In early summer, warm temperatures (4) ________ the ocean to warm up. As water from the ocean evaporates (蒸发), it carries a lot of (5) ________ into the air. This usually creates a storm. Sometimes storms blow away, but sometimes storms start spinning (快速旋转). (6) ________ spin faster and faster and become hurricanes.
The winds of a hurricane can grow to be as strong as 200 (7) _____ an hour. And as the hurricane (8) ____, it begins to travel north. The hurricane moves heat away from the warm part of the ocean in the (9) _____ into parts of the ocean in the north. As the hurricane does this, it cools and becomes (10) _____. Finally, it disappears.
After November, ocean and air temperatures are too cool for hurricanes to happen. But by June, the hurricane season is sure to start all over again.