UNIT 38 NATURE (V) WEATHER Lesson 75 PartⅠ

UNIT 38 NATURE (V)

WEATHER

Lesson  75

PartⅠWarming-up Exercises

Sentence Structure

Training Focus:

Comprehensive training

Directions: Listen carefully. Draw a circle around the letter beside the correct answer. There is only one best answer to each question.

Key:

1. We asked the Andersons to call on us, but they were too busy. (b)

2. Mr. Brown is a good driver and his wife is just like him. (c)

3. My father expected me not to miss the bus. (c)

4. The house was too small for the Smith family but it was big enough for the Anderson family. (c)

5. The cover on the box I lost was green. (a)

6. Mary and Jane are in the same class, but Mary isn't as old as Jane. (c)

7. We had wanted to drive to Detroit today but we had to work. (c)

8. Mrs. Brown went to the store while her husband was working. (b)

Lesson 75 PartⅡ

Lesson  75

Ex.

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key:  1.c                               2.b

3.a                              4.a

5.c

Tapescript:

New York Weather (Ⅰ)  (1′7′)

A: This, I suppose, is a typical winter's day. The streets are covered with snow. The air is clear and cold.

B: Perhaps such a scene is typical for some sections of the United States but not for New York City. The streets won't stay this way for very long. As always in New York, the temperature will probably change within a few hours; the snow will melt and then the streets will be covered instead with mud and slush ---- not a very pretty sight. Normally winter temperatures here range between 25 and 40 degrees, but that does not mean that they do not go lower. Sometimes we have temperatures below zero. Thus there are times during a snowstorm when the temperature will suddenly drop and the snow will change to sleet and hail. Again the snow may begin to melt normally but the temperature drops, and before the streets can be cleaned, the water has all changed toice. Then it is almost impossible to drive or walk. Cars are sliding all over the streets. People slip and fall everywhere on the sidewalks.

Lesson 75 Part Ⅲ

Lesson  75

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Decide whether the statements are true or false.

Key: 1.F            2.T              3.T

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key: 1.c            2.c                3.c

Tapescript

New York Weather (Ⅱ) (1′11″)

B: In New York one enjoys or suffers all kinds of climate. In the spring it rains frequently, and there is a great deal of wind. In summer, the heat becomes sometimes almost unbearable. It is a heavy humid heat that is almost suffocating. New York, because of its proximity to the ocean, is quite humid. This same humidity also makes many winter days unpleasant because the air, instead of being dry and brisk, is damp and penetrating. The cold seems to go right into one's bones.

A: I suppose that there is nothing much one can do about the weather here except to accept it philosophically. New York is such a wonderful place otherwise.

B: Most New Yorkers love their city and accept such minor inconveniences. But it is even difficult to dress properly for such weather. If you dress in heavy clothes in the morning, the weather may turn hot suddenly. If you dress lightly because the morning seems warm, the temperature drops and by night you are shivering with cold. Yet New Yorkers even learn to joke about such things. To any visitor to the city who complains about the weather, they say, “If you don't like our weather, wait a minute. It will change.” They also say that no woman is permitted to work in the office of the local weather bureau because the weather is changeable enough as it is.

A: Speaking of jokes, I forgot to tell you that in the Mexican restaurant where I ate last' night they had the day's weather prediction printed right on the menu.

B: Really? What did it say?

A: It said, “Chili today and hot tamale.”