墨尔本PTE 阅读排序 2912

A - These largely treeless isles are frequently battered by Atlantic storms, gales and rain.   

B - This revealed a number of stone dwellings.   

C - It was during one such storm in the winter of 1850, when the combination of wind and high tides stripped away the grass from the top of a small hill called Skerrabra on the west side of the largest island known simply as ‘The Mainland’.   

D - Off the Northern tip of Scotland, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the North Sea, lies a group of 70 or so islands called the Orkneys.