北邮大学英语3阶段作业一

一、阅读理解（共1道小题，共50.0分）

1.The weather seems to be everybody's favorite topic of

conversation in Britain. This is not because the weather is

particularly exciting, or even because people are particularly

interested in it, but because people have to talk about something and the weather serves as a convenient subject. It's something

everybody shares and it's a safe topic, not too personal or intimate (亲密的).

The main thing to say about the weather in Britain is that it's unpredictable. For some people this is interesting, for others it is irritating(烦人的). But certainly you can never tell with

certainty from one day to the next what the weather is going to be like. Every morning when you wake up is a glorious

surprise-especially if you have planned to go to the seaside and you find it is pouring rain or snowing. There are weather

forecasts(预报) on the radio and TV and in the newspaper-but on the whole nobody believes them.

Because British weather is so unpredictable, some visitors get quite the wrong impression. Some people spend two weeks in Britain in the middle of a heat wave. They come back the next year equipped with bikinis(比基尼), sun cream and shorts, only to find that it never stops raining and the temperature never rises above 10 degrees.

1. Everybody in Britain is fond of talking about weather because

_________.

A. the weather is particularly exciting

B. people are particularly interested in it

C. weather is a personal topic

D. weather is a safe topic

2. The word "unpredictable"(in Line 1, Paragraph 2) means ________.

A. cannot be told in advance

B. cannot be

understood

C. cannot be prepared for ahead

D. cannot be concluded

3. The author points out that _________.

A. people in Britain know for sure what the weather is going to

be like the next day

B. weather forecasts are missing on the radio and TV and in the

newspaper

C. people don't believe weather forecasts on the radio and TV and

in the newspaper

D. people on the whole find the weather in Britain irritating

4. According to the last paragraph, some visitors' wrong impression

is that ________.

A. weather in Britain is cold

B. Britain

is a hot country

C. travelers dislike Britain

D. it always rains

in Britain

5. The passage mainly talks about _________.

A. culture in Britain

B. people in Britain

C. weather in Britain

D. travel in Britain

1. 1. Everybody in Britain is fond of talking about weather

because _________.

A.the weather is particularly exciting

B.people are particularly interested in it

C.weather is a personal topic

D.weather is a safe topic

2. 2. The word "unpredictable"(in Line 1, Paragraph 2) means

________.

A.cannot be told in advance

B.cannot be understood

C.cannot be prepared for ahead

D.cannot be concluded

3. 3. The author points out that _________.

A.people in Britain know for sure what the weather is

going to be like the next day

B.weather forecasts are missing on the radio and TV and

in the newspaper

C.people don't believe weather forecasts on the radio and

TV and in the newspaper

D.people on the whole find the weather in Britain

irritating