答案:C C) As global surface temperatures increase, so does the likelihood of extreme weather. In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States. As my colleague Vann Newkirk reported, Puerto Rico is still confronting economic and structural destruction and resource scarcity from 2017’s Hurricane Maria. Natural disasters can wreck a community’s infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years. Some services, however, remind us that life will eventually return, in some form, to normal.解析:细节题。题目意为:自然灾害可以对社区生活产生长期的影响。C段倒数第二句提到,自然灾害可以破坏一个社区的基础设施,扰乱系统达几个月或几年之久。题目是对该句的同义转述,所以选C。