The English often go out with an umbrella or a raincoat. Why？ 36  the weather In Britain often changes quickly.
Spring can be rainy or windy, but the weather is  37  warmer and you can hope more sunny days. In fact , there  38  as much sunshine in spring as in summer. Summer is the  39  time for visitors to go to the seaside. People often go out to have a walk or swim. Autumn is a beautiful season. During autumn it is still nice to be outside ,too. In winter, it gets colder, and it might 40  ,especially in the north. There are  41  very heavy winds in this season.
February is usually the coldest   42 of the year , while the warmest  43 often July.
The difference   44   temperature between winter and summer is not so great in Britain. The average temperature for winter is about 4.5℃,and for   45 is about 15.5℃.
【小题1】A. Because     B. As           C. Since
【小题2】A. get         B. getting       C. gets
【小题3】A. can have     B. can         C. can be
【小题4】A. worst        B. best         C. earliest
【小题5】A. snow        B. rain         C. wind
【小题6】A. also         B. either        C. too
【小题7】A. month       B. season       C. weather 
【小题8】A. is          B. was         C. are
【小题9】A. in           B. on         C. for
【小题10】A. spring      B. autumn       C. summer

“Sorry” is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life.

One day while I was w 1.     on the street, a young man ran by hurriedly, brushing(轻擦) against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned b 2.      and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn’t f 3.    to say “sorry”. One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn’t ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. “Sorry, Madam,” he said w 4.     bending to pick it up. I was s 5.    why he said “sorry” to me. Another time, I stepped on a man’s f 6.     at the entrance to a cinema. At the same time, we b 7.    said “sorry”.

Slowly, I got to k8.   that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don’t c 9.   much about who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a “sorry” is always n 10.     . Perhaps that is w 11.    I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain.

The first chocolate was eaten by people in South America hundreds of years ago. In those days, the people did not really eat chocolate. They used the cocoa bean（可可豆）to make a chocolate drink and they enjoyed it very much. Many years later, the cocoa bean was brought to other countries and people came to love the taste of chocolate.
In 1824, John Cadbury opened a small shop in Britain. One of the things he sold was chocolate drink. In 1831, he opened a factory to make chocolate drink. He wanted to encourage people to drink chocolate instead of other drinks. A few years later, a man called Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate instead of only drinking it. But at that time chocolate was very expensive and only the rich people could buy it. Later, more and more chocolate bars were produced and sold, it became cheaper.
However, at first only plain chocolate （a kind of chocolate without milk and with very little sugar）was produced. Milk chocolate came later and this was made by adding milk to the chocolate. The first milk chocolate bar was made in Cadbury’s factory in 1897. Their most famous chocolate, Cadbury’s Milk Bar, was made in 1905. It has been the most popular chocolate in Britain and around the world for over 100 years. The Cadbury factory is still in Britain and the chocolate produced there is eaten all over the world. Every year, thousands of visitors visit the factory in order to see how chocolate is made.
【小题1】Hundreds of years ago, people first began to drink chocolate in           .

More than a hundred years ago, an American produced (创造) a game. He called it indoor tennis. The Americans were not interested in it at first so he sent it to his London friends and it became very popular (流行) in Britain. The game was then played across the dining-room table or on the floor with the net hung between two chairs. In the early days ，the balls were made of cork (软木) or rubber. The bats(球拍) were made of wood.
A few years later a hollow (空心) ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. An Englishman once made a bat covered with rubber. He first played the game in England and called it "ping - pong". "Ping" was the sound of the bat when it hit the ball, and "pong" was the sound of the ball when it hit the table.
【小题1】Who invented the game of ping-pong?