【聽力答案】

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

【聽力原文】

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.(除了聽取專家的天氣預報以外，人們也可憑借自身感覺預測天氣情況。）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,（刮風的時候，具體的氣象表現為氣壓下降。）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.（晴朗的天氣，氣壓較高，氣味被壓制；隨著壞天氣的來臨，氣壓逐漸降低，氣味也就隨之釋放。因此，下雨前，人們會感到空氣中的氣味漸強。）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.（濕度上升，老人們會覺付骨頭關節疼痛。）The pressure drops, and bad weather is on the way.

【核心詞匯】

humidity n.濕度

odor n.氣味

prediction n.預言；預報

vague a.模糊的；不清楚的