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  3. In China, when you meet a friend in the street, you would say, "Where are you going? "or" Have you eaten yet? "But in England pe

In China, when you meet a friend in the street, you would say, "Where are you going? "or" Have you eaten yet? "But in England pe

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问题     In China, when you meet a friend in the street, you would say, "Where are you going? "or" Have you eaten yet? "But in England people don’t do that. In fact, if you ask an English person these questions, he might think that is his business, not yours. And the common saying "Mind your own business. "will come naturally to his mind．
    Now what do people say in England when they meet? They generally talk about the weather. They might say, "Lovely weather, isn’t it? "or "It is a bit colder than yesterday, isn’t it? "On another day they might look up at the sky and say, "Look like rain, doesn’t it? "or" Terrible weather!" or all sorts of things like that．
    You may wonder why everybody talks about the weather in England. The reason is very simple: Britain is a very small island country, and in a country like that the weather changes very often and very quickly. Even on a sunny day many people go out and carry an umbrella or raincoat with them. "Just to be on the safe side, "they say．
In Britain everybody talks about the weather because______．
选项 A、the weather is changeable in that country
B、they are only interested in weather
C、they can’t talk about other things in public
D、the weather report is often wrong
答案A
解析 细节题。由最后一段第二句“The reason is very simple: Britain is a very small island country, and in a country like that the weather changes very often and very quickly. ”(原因很简单英国是个非常小的岛国，在这样一个国家里，天气经常改变并且变得很快。)可得出答案。
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