Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each

Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks from 39 to 43.

The summer heat has arrived in northern Viet Nam a month earlier than usual, with temperatures (39)_______ to 41 degrees Celsius in some places. For the past two days Son La and Hoa Binh Provinces have been recording 40-41 degrees, temperatures usually only reached by mid-May. (40)________ the impact of a low-pressure area in the west and Foehn winds, a type of dry, warm and downslope winds, (41)________ parts of the northwest became hot and sunny by March 31 with daytime temperatures reaching at least 35 degrees.

Nguyen Van Huong, head of the weather forecast (42)______ at the National Center for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting, said hot weather has come around 1.5 months early to the north and a month early elsewhere. Average temperatures across the country in March were 0.5- 1.5 degrees higher than normal, he added. Sixteen temperature records were broken in March, including the oldest one- (43)________ had stood for 38 years - in Dinh Lap, Lang Son, when, on March 5, the district recorded 36 degrees.

The center forecast April temperatures to be 1-2 degrees higher than normal. Through the summer the number of warm days and temperatures would be higher than normal, it said. More records are likely to be broken, it added.

(Adapted from http://www.vnexpress.net/news/environment)