[单项选择]The rain was heavy and （　） the land was flooded.
A. consequently
B. continuously
C. constantly
D. consistently

[单项选择]The couple departed （） a heavy rain.
A. far away
B. between
C. in the midst of
D. among

[单项选择]After the heavy rain, a builder was called to repair the roof, which was ______.
A. leaking
B. trickling
C. dripping
D. floating

[单项选择]Although the heavy rain stopped, it was at least an hour later that the flood began to ______


A. retire
B. recede
C. recline
D. retreat

[单项选择]The heavy rain （　） for several days and all the roads were flooded.
A. went up
B. kept on
C. fell down
D. broke down

[单项选择]The heavy rain stopped the visitors ______ the village.
A. from leaving
B. leaves
C. from leave

[单项选择]______ the heavy rain we stayed at home the whole morning.


A. Owing to
B. But for
C. Instead of
D. Due of

[单项选择]The rain was heavy and ______ the land was flooded.
A. consequently
B. continuously
C. constantly
D. consistently

[单项选择]In spite of the heavy snow and hard rain, the buses still ran on. ______.
A. list
B. plan
C. arrangement
D. schedule

[单项选择]

What makes it rain Rain falls from clouds for the same reason anything falls to Earth. The Earth’s gravity pulls it. But every cloud is made of water droplets or ice crystals. Why doesn’t rain or snow fall constantly from all clouds The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The effect of gravity on them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
Droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air made visible in a shaft of sunlight. To the casual observer, dust seems to act in a totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direction. But in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets and they finally fall. The average size of a cloud droplet is only 0. 0004 inch in diameter. It is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall half a mile in perfectly still air, and it does not fall out of mo
A. The gathering of small clouds to form larger clouds.
B. The growth of droplets.
C. The effect of gravity on precipitation.
D. The movement of dust particles in the sunlight.

[单项选择]Peter's father is a heavy smoker ______ a heavy drinker.


A. as
B. as well as
C. as well

[单项选择]How long will the rain last
A. Half an hour. B. More than half an hour.C. About half an hour.

[单项选择]What did Dr. Edwin Land invent


A. A quick process of developing film.
B. A new kind of film.
C. An automatic printer.
D. A kind of camera that develops its own film.