Unit 5 Period Three Lesson 2＆Lesson 3-Comprehending(课时作业)-【状元桥·优质课堂】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第二册（北师大版2019）

课时作业（八）UNIT5 答案精解Pm Period Three Lesson2&Lesson3—Comprehending(张时：4o分钟) I.阅读 It must be a very strange experience to see fish 凡 raining down on you.It would probably hurt if one On Saturday 24 August 1918,it was raining fell on your head!With climate change,global cats and dogs and thundering over a city called warming and many reports of terrible natural Sunderland on the northeast coast of England.The disasters,will the time ever come when it may really storm lasted for only about ten minutes.People were begin to rain cats and dogs? surprised to see that it was not just rainwater falling 1.What was the rain like on 24 August 1918? from the sky.There were fish falling down,too! A.It was very heavy. People came out to find out what was happening. B.It fell around England. They could not believe their own eyes.There were C.It lasted quite a long time. thousands of fish-sand eels-lying on the ground. D.It caused many human deaths. They were about seven centimeters long,and all 2.What do we know about the sand eels that landed were frozen solid. on Sunderland? Sand eels swim together in large groups,often A.They were few in number. in sandy water,and are often found in large numbers B.They came in different sizes. in the North Sea.which reaches out to the east of C.They were still alive when landing. Sunderland.How was it possible for these sand eels D.They probably came from the North Sea to fall from the sky and land on Sunderland? 3.What does the underlined word "them"in paragraph 3 Scientists believed the heavy thunderstorm that refer to? afternoon may have caused a waterspout.Waterspouts can A.Clouds. B.Waterspouts. be formed when strong winds move quickly in a C.Strong winds. D.The waters of the sea. circle over water.They are so powerful;anything 4.In the end,what does the author probably care less than one meter in length can be taken into them most about? and forced into the clouds.The clouds carry whatever has A.Our health. B.Our environment. been taken into