【英语专四听力周计划】典型试题自测新闻理解2

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本次新闻是有关飓风的话题，家住沿海地区的同学不会对这种自然灾害陌生吧？那就一起来听听这次飓风来袭时到底发生了什么吧！
Hints:
hurricane-force wind
snowfall
backlog
stranded
paralyze
前面的考试说明不用听写出来About 100 people are now known to have died in what have been described as the worst storms ever to hit the eastern US this century. The hurricane-force winds first struck the Gulf of Mexico, and have now spread across the Canadian border, continuing to bring record  snowfalls, severe flooding and causing millions of dollars of damage. All major airports have now opened and airlines are beginning to cope with the backlog of thousands of stranded passengers. The storms also paralyzed areas of Cuba where sevaral people were killed and property and crops destroyed.