For questions 21-25, choose the answer (A, B, or C) which best completes each sentence.
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Naming hurricanes
Names have been given to Atlantic hurricanes (0) for a few hundred years. People living in the Caribbean named storms
the saint of the day on which they occurred. In the early days of meteorology in the United States, storms
named with the latitude and longitude of the location where the storm originated. It was difficult to remember, difficult to communicate and subject to errors. During the Second World War, military meteorologists located
the Pacific began to use women’s names for storms. That method was adopted by the National Hurricane Center for Atlantic Storms. This practice quickly became part of the
language, and public awareness of hurricanes increased dramatically.
In 1978, meteorologists began using men’s names for half of the storms. They developed and arranged in alphabetical order a list of 21 names for the year,
starting with a different letter of the alphabet. Today there are six lists which are reused every six years.
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