Read the text below.
For each question (26-30), choose the answer (A-I) that best completes the sentence. There are four letters that you do not need. Mark your answers on the answer sheet. There is an example at the beginning (𝐎 → 𝐉).
The city is covered in a thick smog that’s turning the skies orange, and the people are warned (0) not to go out.
Only this time it's not London in the 1950s, when people
burning large quantities of coal in their homes and dying of respiratory diseases.
It's now happening across Canada and many US cities because of smoke spreading
Canadian wildfires.
What’s making these fires burn stronger and longer than ever? It’s climate change. Even slight
in average temperatures have major consequences, causing less rain and severe droughts, which make forests burn faster.
While some fires are caused by humans dropping cigarette butts or by sparks from passing trains, most fires are started by lightning. A one-degree Celsius
in temperature causes 12 percent more lightning.
So as the climate heats
, the more triggers there are for fires to burn, destroying millions of acres of forests.
Because of climate change the fire season now also lasts longer. Spring comes weeks earlier and fall weeks later, providing more time for the fires to burn.
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