- A.To explain what English weather-speak is about.
- B.To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.
- C.To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.
- D.To convince people that the English weather is changeable.
- A.Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather
- B.there is nothing special about the English weather]
- C.the English weather attracts people to the British Isles
- D.English people talk about the weather for its unccrtainty
- A.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
- Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English.Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point.The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all.English weather-speak is a system of
- A.most commentators agree with Dr.Johnson
- B.Dr.Johnson is famous for his weather observation
- C.the comment was accurate two hundred years ago
- D.English conversations usually start with the weather
- A.A social trend.
- B.An emotional state.
- C.A historical concept.
- D.An unknown phenomenon.
- A.Living together.
- B.Growing fast.
- C.Moving harmoniously.
- D.Breathing peacefully.
- A.a beautiful and poetic place
- B.a flesh and blood person
- C.a wonderful world
- D.a lovely animal
- A.To describe the movement of the waves.
- B.To show the strength of the storm.
- C.To represent the power of the ocean.
- D.To prove the vastness of the sea.
- A.The beginning of road deaign.
- B.The development of transport wheels.
- C.The history of public transport.
- D.The invention of fast-moving vehicles.
- All the waves that cannot test To the east must thunder on Where the bright tree of the sun
- Is rooted in the osean’s breast.
- As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull.It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly.It makes all kinds of noise-it is forever thundering,boiling, crashing,and whistling.
- It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath-perhaps not so noticeably out in mid –ocean,but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach.It mimics(模仿)nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature.It is fi
- A.always energetic
- B.lacking in liveliness
- C.shaped like a square
- D.favored by ancient poets