Directions: Read 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 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 didn't even do. on those rainy had nothing fun to do and could only stinside. staring out at the rain like a Dicke n orphan. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with My father workod from home, so was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on or find lying around. rd crawl through the day and pray each night that the rain would not books that Ucould