高中英语（外研版）必修五：6 阅读强化训练（六）含答案.doc

阅读强化训练(六) (建议用时：25分钟) eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅰ) 阅读理解 The English language is full of phrases about the weather.Some of these phrases are easy to understand, but others are not really about the weather at all. If you say you“hit rough weather”， you may not be struck by a real storm, but you do experience difficulties or problems. If you don’t know what such__phrases mean, they might leave you “in a fog(雾)”！ In English, you can “shoot the breeze”， or have an informal chat. But things can also be a breeze.If you take an exam and find it very easy，you’d tell your friends：“It was a breeze！”The wind can also bring information. You can “get wind of” a piece of news, and if someone “knows which way the wind blows”，they have a good idea about how things will work out.But don’t “throw caution(警惕)to the wind”—that means taking a great risk! Clouds sometimes bring rain, and in English they often represent problems or difficulties. If someone “sees a cloud on the horizon(地平线)”，there may be problems ahead. And if someone is “under a cloud”， then people think the person might have done something wrong. But clouds are not always bad; in fact, people say that “every cloud has a silver lining”. This means that there is a good side to every situation, no matter how bad it may seem. You may even end up “on cloud nine”， which means you are very happy! But some people have their “heads in the clouds”， not paying attention to reality. No one likes to be stuck in the rain or storm, so it’s no surprise that phrases about them are generally negative. When someone says“it never rains but it pours”， they are complaining(抱怨) that when things go wrong, they go very wrong. People who talk about“weathering a storm”just want to get through a difficult period or situation. 【解题导语】　本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了英语中与天气有关的一些习语及其用法。 1．What does the underlined part “such phrases” in the first paragraph refer to? A．The old phrases about the weather. B．The funny phrases about the weather. C．The simple phrases about the weather. D．T