3 Complete the article with one word which best fits
each gap.
(10 marks)
On April 9 2000, Judith Mencher 1....
standing outside her home in Oakland, California
2................. she saw something fall from the sky.
It was a huge block of ice. When the emergency
services went to investigate they found that it
3.................. made a three-foot hole in
4 ................... earth.
This is not the first recorded example of a piece of ice
falling out of the sky. Other similar "ice meteorites"
..... smashed through roofs and even killed
sheep. Spain has experienced about twelve such ice
falls 6. ........ 2000. Some people think that this
ice 7 .................. have come from aeroplanes but
others believe that at least some of it is from outer
space. Some scientists also believe that the ice falls
............... probably become more frequent in the
future 9 .................... they are a sign that the gases in
our atmosphere 10 .................. changing due to
global warming
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