We all make plans for the future all the time. Some of them are big plans, which affect our future lives. Some are small, unimportant plans, such as how we’re going to spend the evening. Making plans is natural, but how many of the plans we are making today will come true
Everyone wants to know what the future holds. What will happen to me Will my hopes and plans come true For thousands of years people have wanted to know the answers to questions like these, and they have turned to fortune tellers for the answers.
Fortune tellers use many position of the stars and planets at our birth can ’affect our character and future. Some people use cards (纸牌) to tell the future, while others say they can read our futures in the pattern of the tea leaves left in the bottom of our cup. One of the most popular forms of fortune telling is palmistry, the study of the lines on the palm of your hand.
Many people believe strongly in some form of fortune telling,
A. our fortune is determined by the position of the stars at our birth
B. palmistry is one method that some people use for fortune telling
C. cards can be used to tell the pattern of the tea leaves left in our cups
D. we can change our fortune by altering the lines on the palm of our hand
Passage Four
At one time or another we have all stopped to think about the weather. Some days the weather is good. Some days the weather is bad. Still, there are days when the weather seems to change from hour to hour. A day that starts out fine might not stay that way. Sometimes a day that seems bad turns out better than you thought it would. There are ways of understanding the weather. One way is to study the clouds.
No two clouds are ever alike. But it is still possible to group clouds and to give them names. We can recognize the different kinds of clouds and watch them for signs of changing weather.
As a rule, the higher the clouds, the better the weather. And the lower the clouds, the worse the weather is likely to be. To predict the weather, there are three things about clouds you should look for: movement, color, and change.
Clouds can tell you if storm is on the way. For example, small feathery cirrus clouds (卷云) can become thick and
A. the relation between the weather and clouds
B. the ways of grouping and naming clouds
C. the causes of differences in weather
D. the signs of the rain and storm
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