大学英语听力1 Unit2 文本和答案.pdfVIP

《现代大学英语听力2》unit2 Weather 听力原文及 题目答案 Task 1 【答案 1) b 2) a 3) 【原文 Texas was the biggest state before Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. One good way to understand the size of Texas is to learn about its weather. Different parts of the state have very different kinds of weather. Laredo is one of the hottest cities in the United States in summer. The best time to visit Laredo is in winter, when it is pleasantly warm. Amarillo gets very cold in winter. Sometimes there is more snow in Amarillo than in New York, which isa northern city.Summers are better, but sometimes it gets quite hot. The best time to visit Amarillo is in the autumn when it is cool. If anyone asks you about the weather in Texas, ask him, “What part of Texas do you mean？” Task 2 【答案 A. 1) T 2) F 3) F B. 1) d 2) c 3) c C. climate, reputation, extraordinary, unreliable, dry, wet, clear, dull, hot, cold, bad, mil 【原文 Our friend, Nick, whose English gets better an better, declare solemnly the other day that he thought that the British climate was wonderful, but the British weather was terrible. He went on to explain by pointing out that the British climatewas a temperate one. This meant,he said, that you could always be certain that the weather would never be extreme— at any rate not for any length of time— never very hot and never very cold. He quite rightly pointed out that the rainfall in Britain, according to the statistics, was not very heavy. Why then, he asked, has the British climate such a bad reputation? He answered by saying it was because of the extraordinary, unreliable weather. There was no part of the year at which you could be certain that the weather would be dry or wet, clear or dull, hot or cold. A bad day in July could be as cold as a mild day in January. Indeed you could feel cold at almost any time of the year. Nick blamed drafty British houses for th