(课外)Read the fol lowing paragraph and choose the best answer to each question. We can use our own sense to make weather predictions. For example, in fine weather the air pressure is generally high, the air is 1 still and often full of dust, and faraway objects may look 2hazy . But when a storm is coming , the pressure drops and you are often able to see things more clearly. Sailors took note of this long ago and came up with a saying: “The farther the sight, the nearer the rain.”