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夏威夷火山喷发，烈焰直冲千米高空（完形填空）

Recently, the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted. The eruption ___1___ for nine hours and shot fountains of lava (熔岩) about 1,300 feet into the air.

The ___2___ produced a lot of heat and ash. Small pieces of volcanic (火山的) material, ___3___ tephra, fell on a nearby golf course. Some of these pieces were ___4___ big as six inches in some places. There was also a special kind of volcanic glass called “Pele’s hair.” It looks like thin strands of hair and ___5___ as far as Hilo, a town about 30 miles away.

During the eruption, Kīlauea ___6___ about 16 million cubic yards of lava. It also sent a large cloud of ash more than 30,000 feet into the sky.

Kīlauea has been erupting ___7___ since December 2024. This eruption was the 43rd ___8___ it has erupted since then.

Kīlauea is a shield volcano (盾状火山). That means it is flat and wide, not tall and pointy (尖的) like some other volcanoes. Shield volcanoes are not very high, but they are very large. In fact, they are the ___9___ volcanoes on Earth. Their lava usually flows slowly. Kīlauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. People ___10___ it erupt for a very long time.