the passage. Then answer the questions below.
Summer Rain
The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend
all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter,
with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless
days at the beach, laying on the sand and soaking in the bright and
burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come
close to crying. It wasn't fair. We suffered through months of school and
miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy
weather. Any day that I could not spend at the beach or playing ball with
my friends seemed like a punishment for something I didn't even do.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the
rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked
from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was technically at
work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on television or any books that I could
find lying around. I'd crawl through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next
day.
As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day,
summer is not as eagerly anticipated. Mostly, the days run together, bleeding into each other so that they
no longer seem like separate entities and instead feel like continuations of the same long day. Everything
seems monotonous and dull, and an ennui or listlessness kicks in. Such a mindset makes you cheer for
anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter.
When summer comes, I complain about how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain
brings with it a cold front, which offers a reprieve-admittedly one that is all too short-from the torture of
100° and humid days. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means
positively beautiful-and considerably cooler-weather tomorrow.
1) The passage makes use of language that is
A. metaphorical
B. rhetorical
C. formal
D. ambiguous
2) According to the passage, summer is different for adults because
A. rain brings with it cold temperatures for the following days
B. the weather is much warmer than it is for children
C. they do not get a long time off from work for the season
D. they better know how to occupy their downtime
3) According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the narrator as a child?
A. He or she was often bored on summer days.
B. He or she preferred cooler weather.
C. He or she liked staying indoors.
D. He or she had no siblings.
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