Last Thursday, the 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring     1     (sell) to a Boston house developer, Jacqueline Nunez, for $ 1. 525 million. Nunez and Jennifer Heinzen,     2    seller, jointly announced the sale on Facebook.

Nunez plans to continue the business     3     (start) by Heinzen. Guests will be able to continue the nightly explorations there. Day-time tours will resume (恢复) soon.

“This purchase is personal for me,” Nunez told The Boston Globe. “It’s around my own     4     (curious). Since I was a child, I     5     (be) in love with horror movies, like The Conjuring. I look forward to experiencing strange things in the house.”

However, one of the conditions in the contract is     6     the new owner will not live in the house year-round. “Because the energy is so powerful,” Heinzen told The Boston Globe later. “It is intended     7     (protect) the buyer.”

The Conjuring wasn’t filmed in the house but was based on the     8     (experience) of a few families that lived there in the 1970s.

“I’m not afraid     9     the house,” she said. “I don’t think the energy here is     10    (harm). Things that will happen here may frighten me, but will not hurt me.”

For more than 50 years, anyone buying or renting a house could look up how vulnerable(易受攻击的)     1     is to flooding. But for wildfire risk, homeowners were mostly in the dark.

Even with thousands of homes    2     (destroy) by wildfires every year, most homeowners     3    move receive little or no information about the risk they re taking on.

Now,     4    non-profit research group is releasing a first of its kind tool for homeowners. Produced by First Street Foundation, the rating tool shows the wildfire risk for; properties across the lower 48 states, and shows how that risk will change as the climate gets hotter. The information will be shown on Realtor. com, expanding to other real estate(不动产) sites later.

The information fills a gap left by government. Only a handful of states     5     (map) where communities are most at risk to wildfire so far. Federal maps from the US Forest Service aren’t meant    6     (use) for individual properties.

    7     (know) about wildfire risk may not necessarily dissuade(劝阻) buyers,     8     (especial) where housing is in short supply. But wildfire experts say that there are many    9     (step) homeowners can still take to make their homes safer, like cutting down the trees next    10    the houses and using fire-resistant building materials.

The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history last year, supercharging (加剧) extreme weather events, scientists have reported. They found that the five hottest recorded years in the oceans     1    (occur) since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than     2     from 1960-85. Oceans cover 71% of the planet and water can absorb thousands of times more heat than air,     3     is why 93% of global heating is taken up by seas.

Hotter oceans destroy rainfall patterns, which     4    (lead) to floods, droughts and wildfires. Heat also causes seawater     5     (expand) and drives up sea levels. Scientists expect about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century,     6    (threaten) 150 million people. Higher temperatures in the seas are also harming marine (海洋的) life, with     7     number of ocean heatwaves increasing     8    (sharp).

The study also finds that the sinking of surface waters and upwelling of deeper water is reducing as the seas heat up. This means the surface layers heats up even further and fewer nutrients for marine life are brought up from the     9    (deep).

“The oceans reached yet another new record level of warmth in 2020,    10     a record drop in global carbon emissions (排放). The planet will continue to warm up as long as we emit carbon into the atmosphere,” said Prof Michael Mann of Penn State University.

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