[单项选择]The sudden change of weather made the temperature ______ a lot.
A. fall
B. sink
C. drop
D. lower

[单项选择]Due to a sudden change in weather, the match has been ______ until next Monday.
A. put down
B. put on
C. put up
D. put off

[单项选择]The sudden change of weather ______ our holiday plan.
A. damaged
B. destroyed
C. sabotaged
D. spoiled

[单项选择]This week, the weather to change every day: One day is hot, the next is cold.
A. seems
B. looks
C. sounds
D. feels

[单项选择]The change of weather made a lot of people sick.

[单项选择]The weather condition will probably change from day to night in______.
A. Beijing, Tianjin, Macao, London, Paris, Toronto
B. Macao, Toronto, New York, Rome
C. Toronto, Rome, Beijing, Chicago
D. London, Rome, Lhasa, Macao, San Francisco

[单项选择]If ______ to a high temperature, ice will change to water.
A. heating
B. being heated
C. to heat
D. heated

[单项选择]—According to the weather report, the temperature tomorrow will rise up _______22 degrees centigrade. —Oh, it’s quite hot ________ December.
A. to; for
B. at; in
C. /; in
D. by; for

[单项选择]His sudden look of fear made ______ clear that he had something to do with the matter.
A. him
B. this
C. it
D. that

[单项选择]The sudden drop in temperature has greatly________the crops.
A. affected
B. effected
C. influenced
D. destroyed

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Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. When experience taught him this was impossible, he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier than 1 000 B. C. there were seers in Babylon--and priests clever enough to denounce as cheaters who predicted the weather a year in advance.
Some forecasters used .methods that seem to have no connection with the actual factors control ling the weather. Chickens and other animals were sacrificed and their intestines (肠) poked to find signs indicating rain or drought.
Somewhat more scientific were predictions based on vegetation: "onion's skin very thin, mild winter coming in. Onion's skin thick and tough, coming winter code and rough."
Insects and animals were also favorite clues: when the glowworm lights his lamp, then the air is always damp." "If spiders forsake their cobwebs, the weather win for certain break." "If frog remained in pools, the weather would
A. fine weather
B. cold weather
C. rain
D. all of the above

[单项选择]Scientists imagine such a change in weather on human population would be ______.
A. terrified
B. surprised
C. horrible
D. frightened