Hurricane clouds move in a circle around a point called the eye, which is the center of the storm. To be called a hurricane, a storm must have wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour. When a hurricane comes ashore, there are heavy rains, large waves and strong winds that cause damage to buildings, cars and trees. ______ Storm surges are the main reason people are told to leave beach towns and move inland when a hurricane approaches. Hurricanes move very slowly though, so people have a chance to get out of the way.A. Hurricanes gather heat and energy from the warm ocean water.B. The first hurricane name starts with the letter A, like Ashley, and the names move through the alphabet as more hurricanes form.C. Meteorologists, scientists who study the weather, watch these storms very carefully.D. During the official hurricane season, these large storms sometimes hit coastal areas of the United States.E. This year, the United States has been hit by more damaging hurricanes than in anyother year.F. Also, flooding can occur when large waves called storm surges hit the beaches.
It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of a college romance playing out online-for better or for worse-would have been deemed weird, nerdy, or just plain pathetic. ______ But then MySpace came along, and Facebook took over-and today, courtship has become a flurry of status messages, e-mail flirtation, and, not so uneommonly; breakups that play out publicly for all 400 of your not-so-closest friends. And while a Facebook split is clearly not the ideal, Katie Vojtko has been on the other side of it, too: she ended a recent romance through an e-mail-to which she never heard back. "It’s not something I’m proud of," says the 22-year-old, who graduated in April. "But technology just makes dating so much easier."A. It’s easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.B. "And you don’t even have to be on the computer to engage in it."C. They can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether they’re "looking for a relationship" or only interested in" hooking up."D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a, mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you weren’t capable of attracting anyone in the real world.E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar, but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer.F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl hemet at a happy hour to dinner.