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一、阅读理解（共1道小题，共50.0分） (错误) The weather seems to be everybodys 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. Its something everybody shares and its a safe topic, not too personal or intimate (亲密的). The main thing to say about the weather in Britain is that its 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. Everybody in Britain is fond of talking about weather because _________. the weather is particularly exciting people are particularly interested in it weather is a personal topic weather is a safe topic The word unpredictable(in Line 1, Paragraph 2) means ________. cannot be told in advance cannot be understood cannot be prepared for ahead cannot be concluded The author points out that _________. people in Britain know for sure what the weather is going to be like the next day weather forecasts are missing on the radio and TV and in the newspaper people dont believe weather forecasts on the radio and TV and in the newspaper people on the whole find the weather in Britain irritating According to the last paragraph