2017年9月公共英語(yǔ)三級(jí)閱讀練習(xí)題（9）

　　第五部份：Dialogues/monologues:

　　I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently and swimmingly withforeigners was the principal motivation.

　　1、...having been brought up in the countryside.

　　2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into thefirst part of the morning.

　　翻譯為：那些強(qiáng)勁的大風(fēng)卷起一層云彩，還有些零星的小雨下了好一會(huì)，一直持續(xù)到清晨。

　　3、clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single figures resulting in a touch of grand frost in some rural areas.

　　翻譯為：清涼的天空和微風(fēng)讓溫度值降到了個(gè)位數(shù),使得很多鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)出現(xiàn)了霜.

　　4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.

　　注意的詞語(yǔ)：give away：讓步。

　　翻譯為：太陽(yáng)被一小片云層遮住了。

　　5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved in from the west.

　　6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of 58mph.