填空题 In the summer of 2010, record-high temperatures hit Moscow. At first it was just another 1 but the scorching heat that started in 2 continued through mid-August. Western Russia was 3 in early August that 300 or 400 new fires were starting every day. Millions of acres of forest 4 . So did thousands of homes. Crops withered. Day after day Moscow was bathed in 5 .
The elderly and those with impaired respiratory systems 6 . The death rate climbed as heat stress and smoke 7 . The average July temperature in Moscow was a scarcely believable 14 degrees Fahrenheit 8 . Twice during the heat wave, the Moscow temperature 9 Fahrenheit, a level Muscovites had never before 10 . Watching the heat wave play out over a seven-week period on the TV 11 , with the thousands of fires and the smoke everywhere, was like watching 12 that had no end. Russia"s 140 million people were 13 , traumatized by what was happening to them and their country.
The most 14 in Russia"s 130 years of record keeping was taking a heavy economic toll. The loss of 15 and the projected cost of their restoration 16 some $300 billion. Thousands of farmers faced bankruptcy. Russia"s 17 shrank from nearly 100 million tons to scarcely 60 million tons as crops withered. Recently the world"s number three wheat exporter, Russia banned grain exports 18 to rein in soaring domestic food prices. Between mid-June and mid-August, the world price of wheat 19 . Prolonged drought and the worst heat wave in Russian history 20 worldwide.