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The heat wave that broke high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, 【小题1】 (cause) the surface of the islands vast ice sheet to melt at near-record levels and a huge 【小题2】 (lose) of ice in the Arctic. On Wednesday alone, more than 10 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt, which is equal 【小题3】 about 4,000,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Melting 【小题4】 (increase) in recent decades because of climate change and has been decreasing accumulation from snow. Previously, during the 1970s and the 1980s, Greenland lost 【小题5】 average of 50 billion tons of ice each year. From 2010 to 2018, that figure shot up to 290 billion tons 【小题6】 (annual). This summer, the extent of the melt could surpass (超过) the record set in 2012, 【小题7】 about 97% of the ice sheets surface began to melt. NASA-JPL Caltech reported at the time.

Greenland, the worlds largest island, 【小题8】 (lie) between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with 82 per cent of its surface 【小题9】 (cover) in ice. A June 2019 study by scientists in the U. S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters to the rising 【小题10】 (globe) sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted, which would take centuries, the world’s oceans would rise by 7.2 meters.