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Summer Showers: Moments of Coolness and Beauty

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    This article describes the refreshing and beautiful moments brought by summer showers and provides beginner-friendly English reading exercises, each with audio and text to help improve listening and reading skills.

    Learn English easily in just one minute a day! This website offers short English readings suitable for beginners, each accompanied by audio and the original text. The content is interesting and of moderate difficulty. By reading one short article a day, you can develop a sense of language and improve your reading and listening skills. Start your English learning journey now! Here, editor Xiao Wu from qicai.com has compiled some listening content from daily beginner English short reading exercises.

    In summer, the rain often comes suddenly. The sky can change in minutes, from bright sunshine to dark clouds. People might be surprised when it starts, but the sudden rain can also bring relief from the hot weather. The clouds become dark and heavy. Suns are rumbles in the distance. Soon, big drops of rain fall from the sky. The heavy rain can make the streets wet and the sound of falling water is soothing. Plants and flowers drink the rain happily, their colors appearing more vibrant after being soaked. After the rain, the air is fresh and the world seems cleaner. Everything feels calm and cool. The refreshing air makes it pleasant to go outside. I love summer rain because it brings coolness and makes everything more beautiful.

    That’s all from editor Xiao Wu at qicai.com regarding daily beginner English reading exercises. We hope you gain something useful after listening!

Vocabulary Guide

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  • refresh

    verb

    1. make fresh again

    Synonym: freshenrefreshen

    2. become or make oneself fresh again

    e.g. She freshened up after the tennis game

    Synonym: freshenrefreshenfreshen up

    3. make (to feel) fresh

    e.g. The cool water refreshed us

    Synonym: freshen

    4. refresh one's memory

    e.g. I reviewed the material before the test

    Synonym: reviewbrush up

  • distance

    noun

    1. the property created by the space between two objects or points

    2. size of the gap between two places

    e.g. the distance from New York to Chicago
    he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points

    Synonym: length

    3. indifference by personal withdrawal

    e.g. emotional distance

    Synonym: aloofness

    4. a distant region

    e.g. I could see it in the distance

    5. the interval between two times

    e.g. the distance from birth to death
    it all happened in the space of 10 minutes

    Synonym: space

    6. a remote point in time

    e.g. if that happens it will be at some distance in the future
    at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details

  • heavy

    noun

    1. a serious (or tragic) role in a play

    2. an actor who plays villainous roles

  • suddenly

    adv

    1. quickly and without warning

    e.g. he stopped suddenly

    Synonym: abruptlyshortdead

    2. happening unexpectedly

    e.g. suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side

    Synonym: all of a suddenof a sudden

    3. on impulse
    without premeditation

    e.g. he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment
    he made up his mind suddenly

    Synonym: on the spur of the moment

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