Alex is a middle school student. It’s Sunday morning. He needn’t go to school. He is looking outside from his room. It is raining hard and windy. He really wants the rain and wind to stop right now so that he can go out.

The rain stops in the afternoon. Alex is very happy to see that. He calls his friends and asks them to go out. The clouds leave, and the sun comes. A big rainbow crosses the sky. It’s a little hard to see the rainbow. Many people think rainbows can bring good luck.

“How does the beautiful rainbow from?” Alex asks his father. “When the sun shines the raindrops, the rainbow comes out. From this we can learn we’ll never see rainbows without rain.” Alex’s father tells him. And Alex learns from his father—when we meet bad things, just enjoy them, and everything will be OK.

【小题1】It's the most popular topic of conversation（谈话）. For example, people may say to each other "Isn't it a nice day?" "Do you think it's going to rain?" or "I think it is going to snow." All these are the common ways to start a conversation. Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like.【小题2】One man may say, "Do you see how cloudy it is in the east? It is going to rain tomorrow." But another man may say, "Yes, it's cloudy in the east, so we are going to have a fine day tomorrow."

【小题3】When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him it is going to rain; he won't believe other things. When people are having a picnic, but it begins to rain, they will be so sure about something that shows the weather is going to be fine very quickly.【小题4】They won't believe that they will finish their lunch in the rain.

Almost everyone listens to what the weatherman says. But he does not always tell us what we want, and sometimes he makes a mistake.【小题5】

Many places in our world are becoming hotter and the weather is becoming more surprising. More and more ice is melting (融化) at the North Pole and South Pole of our Earth. Unluckily, we may not be able to stop these changes. Why? Because the weather of our Earth is so difficult to control (控制)!

I will tell you something about our world’s surprising weather: one Roman man wrote about frogs raining from the sky almost 2,000 years ago. Can this really happen? Yes, it can! What’s more, fish and other small animals can also “rain”. They sometimes happen when a storm (暴风雨) brings very strong winds. The winds blow over the surface of oceans or lakes. Small frogs and fish aren’t very heavy, so the winds take them to the sky and then they come back down with the rain.

The frog rain isn’t new in many places. In 2005, people in Serbia walked outside their homes after a storm and couldn’t believe their eyes. Hundreds of frogs were trying to jump back to water. If you’re interested to see what “frog rain”, looks like, you can go to watch the 1999 movie Magnolia.

Bad weather may cause many problems to people’s lives. It’s not easy to control the weather. However, everyone should do something to protect our Earth.