For the (26) month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice (冰雹) (27) rained down on Spain and Italy. Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked
(28) when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk (29) she walked in a street (30) her home. On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly (31) serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice (32) into his car. (33) the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in L’Aquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash. (34) the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, (35) intact. Upon examination, the block of ice (36) in at 2 kilograms and no source (37) . On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man (38) was struck (39) the head by all kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky.
Spain and Italy aren’t the only European (40) getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January. On January 2 in Surrey, England (southwest of London), an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he (41) a strange whistling sound overhead. Seconds (42) ,a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50-foot-wide area. The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter. Even the shattered remains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque (43) no unusual color or smell. [A] weighs [B] weighed [C] has weighed [D] had weighed