WORKSHEET ad the following passage carefully :
The Weather
.) Through human history, weather has altered the march of events and cause som
cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived wh
there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of Amer
westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limpin
Napoleon was done in twice by weather : once by the snow and cold that forced his fearf
from Moscow, later by the rain that bedevilled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo
"A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky, sufficed for the overth
world." In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible by a narrow ir
reasonably good weather between the bad. It was so narrow, in fact, that Supreme Allied Co
Dwight Eisenhower later expressed gratitude to "the gods of war".
Every year brings fresh reminders of the weather's power over human life and events in tl
horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. These leave behind forgettable stati
unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humbl by