高一上学期英语复习测试题(附答案)
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The trouble with the TV weather report is that it brings out the worst news to all of us.
The other evening I was watching my weatherman on the late night news, and he said, “A cold wind is coming down from Canada and will __36__ across the Great Plains, carrying __37__ temperatures, snow and ice.”
“What are you smiling at?” my wife wanted to know.
“We are __38__.” I said.
“But the people in the Great Plains are Americans too.”
“They’re __39__ to it.” I replied. “This kind of weather is soft to them.”
The weatherman was waving his hands all over the __40__. “A storm now over the Pacific will __41__ six inches of rain in Southern California and Arizona.”
“__42__ them right!” I said. “They’re always saying how __43__ their weather is and it’s __44__ they got a taste of the weather.
The weatherman continued. “__45__ low temperatures will be brought to Texas.”
“Don’t cry __46__ Texas,” I said.
“Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia can __47__ freezing rain because of this high pressure system coming up from Mexico,” the weatherman continued.
I said, “So the __48__ of their rose garden!”
My wife was angry, “You’re being very __49__.”
“Look,” I said, “the only reason they tell you about the __50__ in other parts of the country is that people who aren’t affected by it