英语四级标准听力强化训练(MP3+文本) 第39期:短文(18)

【听力答案】

7. B 8. D 9. A 10. C

【听力原文】

Passage 3

To find out what the weather is going to be, most people go straight to the radio, television, or newspaper, to get an expert weather forecast. But if you know what to look for,（7）you can use your own senses to make weather predictions.(除了听取专家的天气预报以外，人们也可凭借自身感觉预测天气情况。）For example,（8）in fair weather, the air pressure is general high，the air is still，and often full of dust. And faraway objects may look vague. But when a storm is blowing, the pressure drops,（刮风的时候，具体的气象表现为气压下降。）and you are often able to see things more clearly. Sailors took note of this long ago, and came up with a saying: "The farther the sight，the nearer the rain."（9）Your sense of smell can also help you detect weather changes. Just before it rains, odors become stronger. This is because odors are repressed in a fair high pressure center. When a bad weather low moves in，air pressure lessens， and odors are released.（晴朗的天气，气压较高，气味被压制；随着坏天气的来临，气压逐渐降低，气味也就随之释放。因此，下雨前，人们会感到空气中的气味渐强。）You can also hear an approaching storm. An old saying: "Sound traveling far and wide, a stormy day will be tied." And don't laugh at your grandmother if she says she can feel a storm coining.（10）It is commonly known that many people feel pains in their bones or joints when humidity rises.（湿度上升，老人们会觉付骨头关节疼痛。）The pressure drops, and bad weather is on the way.

【核心词汇】

humidity n.湿度

odor n.气味

prediction n.预言；预报

vague a.模糊的；不清楚的