That’s not true. You will also hear all kinds of different tenses in an American weather forecast when the meteorologist refers to the upcoming weather – including the simple present, the present continous, the ‘be going to’ future, the ‘will’ future, even the future continuous.
I’m just extremely uncomfortable with what I see as a lack of contextual justification for using the simple present tense in the test question. :? And, I have to admit, the fact that the sentence appears in an elementary level test also irritates me.
Fortunately, the sentence in question tests vocabulary rather than tense.
I believe you (believe me!), but I wish someone had told me straight away about outside window cleaners in England when
I first went to live there. Imagine my surprise (or was it fright? – I can’t remember) one day when a shadow suddenly appeared at the bathroom window on the first floor (by British standards)! Thank goodness it was a frosted glass window!
