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Practice Listening: Highlight Correct Summary ID: #43819 Short Tornadoes

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You will hear a recording. Click on the paragraph that best relates to the recording.

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Tornadoes are one of the most severe types of weather phenomena. While many people fear tornadoes and their destructive power, few people understand their real causes and effects. They are not aware of how to protect themselves from their devastating force as well. Tornadoes, violently rotating columns of air, occur when a change in wind direction, coupled with an increase in wind speed, results in a spinning effect in the lower atmosphere. These whirling movements, which may not be visible to the naked eye, are accelerated when the spinning air column shifts from a horizontal to a vertical position. As the revolving cloud draws in the warm air that surrounds it at ground level, its spinning motion begins to accelerate, thereby creating a funnel that extends from the cloud above it to the ground below. In this way, tornadoes become suspended from low pressure storm clouds.

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Tornadoes are visible as they start forming in the atmosphere. Tornadoes occur when wind direction changes and speed decreases, creating a vertical spinning column of air. Tornadoes are suspended from high-pressure storm clouds. Tornadoes form when a rotating air column draws in warm air from the ground, accelerating and creating a funnel.

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Option 4: "Tornadoes form when a rotating air column draws in warm air from the ground, accelerating and creating a funnel."

Explanation: This option is correct as it accurately summarizes the main idea of the text. The text explains that tornadoes form when a rotating air column draws in warm air from the ground, which accelerates the spinning motion and creates a funnel. This aligns perfectly with the details provided in the text, making it the correct summary.

Option 1: "Tornadoes are visible as they start forming in the atmosphere."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text states that the whirling movements of tornadoes may not be visible to the naked eye. Therefore, claiming that tornadoes are visible contradicts the information provided in the text.

Option 2: "Tornadoes occur when wind direction changes and speed decreases, creating a vertical spinning column of air."

Explanation: This option is incorrect as it misrepresents the conditions for tornado formation. The text specifies that tornadoes occur when there is a change in wind direction coupled with an increase in wind speed, not a decrease. This fundamental error in understanding the cause of tornadoes makes this option incorrect.

Option 3: "Tornadoes are suspended from high-pressure storm clouds."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text clearly states that tornadoes are suspended from low pressure storm clouds, not high pressure. This contradiction in the type of pressure associated with tornado formation invalidates this option.

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