5. Talk about your favorite season. (What is your favorite season (spring, summer, winter or autumn)? / What’s the weather like during that season? / What do you often do during that season? / Why do you like it?).

Autumn.

Of all the places I’ve lived, I think Ohio and Idaho had the nicest autumns. Ohio for its profusion of autumnal arboreal color and Idaho (southern Idaho, at least) for its paucity of rain and cloudy weather, and the radiant clarity of the air.

See, what I like most about autumn, besides the pleasant colors and the cool temperatures, is the way the light falls. The Earth is tilting northward on its axis. The sun, which was high overhead in summer, now swings low in the southern sky. Its rays slant diagonally across the land, lending a different (and in my opinion, pleasant) character to everything they touch. Noontide all but disappears, and the late autumn and early winter days seem to transition immediately from early morning to late afternoon. I find the resulting temporal disorientation immensely pleasing for some reason.

What differentiates autumn from spring, in my mind, is the reassuring knowledge that this temporal disorientation and the cold temperatures will only intensify as autumn progresses into winter (not to mention the comforting evocations which autumn and winter coax from my imagination—hot cocoa, roaring fires, holiday feasts, family togetherness, good flying weather, etc.)—whereas my enjoyment of spring and its manifold beauties is tinctured by the knowledge that the sun is climbing ever higher into the sky, and temperatures will only increase until the asphalt is hot enough to fry eggs on, and everything will soon be hot and ugly and unpleasant again.

It’s only a subjective prejudice—perhaps even an aesthetic conceit—on my part. But it nevertheless exerts a powerful hold on my psyche.

And that’s why I love autumn. The weather gets cooler, the holidays are coming, the trees are getting prettier, and everything just looks more beautiful and magical with the sun lower in the sky.

Oh, and another thing: my birthday is in autumn. So there.

Explanation:

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.