Read the passage and choose the best answer
I remember once we went on a trip to Australia and we toured in the desert. The first morning we got up to clear skies though the temperature was a bit chilly and dry. Nevertheless, the weather forecast predicted a storm. We could feel the no so mild breeze on our faces and we thought the weather man was going to be wrong in his predictions. Therefore, we got on the van and set out towards the interior of the desert.
As the day went by the temperature increased and by noon it was more than boiling hot. There was not a shade where to hide and it was an unbearable scorching day. Then all of the sudden there the sky was overcast and it was pouring. It started to rain cats and dogs. There were loud thunders and bright lightnings. The nearby river flooded and we had to stop in the middle of the road. We were terribly scared. The severe heatwave and the drought that the desert had been suffering for so long came to and end in a few minutes. There was a sheer drop of temperature and with light clothes we felt freezing cold. It was a very unpleasant situation. We thought it would last the whole day, but we were wrong again, in the next hour the sky started to clear up and the rain totally stopped.
We didn't want to venture farther in the desert though and we decided to go back to the nearest town where we didn't mind to feel the muggy sticky weather after all. Once there we started to think about our home back in Canada where we have many cold spells and blizzards in the winter up in the north. We learned that we can't take the weather for granted. It's wild and we can't tame it. The only thing we can do is adapt ourselves to it rather than try to change it to our convenience. We must adapt our holidays and events to the weather.
What is the synonym of “cats and dogs”
Trả lời bởi giáo viên
A. happily (adv) vui vẻ
B. expectedly (adv) được mong đợi
C. heavily (adv) mạnh, lớn, dữ dội
D. thoroughly (adv) hoàn toàn
Thông tin: Then all of the sudden there the sky was overcast and it was pouring. It started to rain cats and dogs.
Tạm dịch: Rồi đột nhiên, bầu trời u ám và như trút nước. Trời bắt đầu mưa to.
=> cats and dogs = heavily
Hướng dẫn giải:
Thành ngữ “cats and dogs: dữ dội)