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第 80 课:the weather 天气 - 2

A: what's the weather like in your city?

B: in the summer it gets very hot.the temperature is between often 37 and 40 centigrade.when it is hot we often get rains.the winters are drier.

A: the summer temperature usually often reaches about 20 or25 in my city. the rain falls mostly in the winter. and we often get snow.

B: what are the temperatures in winter? in my city they are about 15 or 20 degrees.

A: in winter temperature often falls to zero at night temperature can be below that.the streets are often icing in the mornings. with high such temperatures you must get some thunderstorms.

B: yeah, we do. in the middle of summer there can be found storms every day usually in the afternoon. I heard your city has a lot of fog, is that true?

A: we do have a few fog days in winter. but I would not say we have a lot of fogs. the sky are usually clearly in your city, are they?

B: yes, they are. like I said we have thunderstorms. but each one usually only last a few hours.then the skys are clear again.

A: have you ever had snow in your city?

B: my grandmother said there was snow once when she was a child.but my parents and I never see it outside of my city.

A: the river in my city sometime freeze over. so people go ice-skating on it. in summer people go boating on the river.but few people go swimming because it is not very clean.

B: as you know, my city is on the coast.the water is also not clean.but people still go swimming in it all year around .I prefer to sand bath on the beach when the weather is hot in sunning.