单选题 Our friend, Nick, declared the other day that he thought that the British climate was wonderful, but the British weather was terrible. He went on by pointing out that the British climate was a temperate (温和的) 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 Britian was not very heavy. "Why then," he asked, "has the British climate such a bad reputation (名声)?" He answered by saying it was because of the extraordinary (非凡的), 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 (通风的) British houses for this, but agreed that you could also blame the small amount of sunshine and a great amount of dampness. He admitted he had never experienced one of London's fogs. For the present he advised every student coming to Britian to bring an umbrella and to understand the meaning of that splendid word "drizzle./

单选题 According to the passage, the difference between the climate and the weather is that
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为大意理解题。阅读全文可以得知气候是某个地区整体天气的特征，天气是某个地区在一个特定时间的大气情况。C)的表述是正确的。
单选题 It is supposed that British people like to talk about weather just because ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为细节推理题。第一段倒数第2，3句提到英国的天气是不可靠的，在一年的任何时候，你都无法确定天气的情况。故选D)。
单选题 It is implied that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为细节推理题。第二段讲到英国阳光很少，气候潮湿，Nick建议学生要带把雨伞。故选A)。
单选题 It can be concluded that a typical British weather report would be ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为细节推理题。根据文章提供的信息可知，英国阳光少，多细雨，少雾。故选B)。
单选题 Which is the best title of the passage?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为主旨大意题。C)，D)明显不对，首先排除；A)项强调的是气候，但文章大部分在讲英国天气给外来人的印象和感受，故选B)。