I used to think my life was perfect. My mom had her dream job and a beautiful office and I had my own room with a computer and a garden to _________. But one Sunday, everything changed. A hurricane _________ our neighborhood while we were visiting my grandparents in Raleigh. Our kitchen was destroyed, and our clean and comfortable home was in ruins.

But something _________ happened. Our neighbors, the Flores family, came to our aid. They helped clear _________ pieces and offered us a place to stay. Their _________ was most impressive. We had never_________ spoken to them before, but they _________ their home to us and made us feel like family.

We started a new_________ of having weekend dinner together. We invited other families from the neighborhood to join us, and our _________ were filled with laughter and delicious food. It was a beautiful thing to see our __________ come together in the wake of a disaster.

I __________ knew Rosica, their daughter, before the hurricane. But she quickly became my __________. She had a gift for storytelling and our evenings together were filled with adventure and laughter.

Looking back, I realize that the hurricane__________ unexpected benefit. It brought us closer to our neighbors and __________ our lives in ways we never could have imagined. Sometimes, it takes a(n) __________ to bring out the best in people.

In the extreme heat and drought conditions, multiple wildfires hit parts of Chongqing recently. On Sunday night, a forest fire broke out and _________ in Chongqing’s Beibei District. The local government put out a(n) _________ call for volunteers with certain skills and _________, such as chain saw (链锯) operation, to join in the firefighting. Chain saws are used to create fire _________.

“I was happy to help,” said Francis Stonier, 42, a foreign professor of Southwest University. He said he used to _________ trees around his yard and neighborhood and had _________ many times in the U.S. in the past — for example, building houses for _________ people after big storms.

Stonier found a _________ — 50-year-old He Wu, a professor in the university’s college of foreign languages to help communicate with the locals — who also _________ to fight fire.

On Tuesday, the pair were __________ to one of the chain saw groups — inspecting and adjusting chain saws.

“Francis is responsible and focused, and is doing a really good job,” said He, adding that Stonier checked each chain saw __________, to see if it was too tight or too __________. They had checked out about 50 __________ after two hours of work, which were __________ to fire and rescue workers.

“Wherever I went, the volunteers and local __________ gave me a thumbs-up sign. It was a(n) __________ experience,” Stonier said.

Thanks to the __________ efforts of fire and rescue workers, as well as volunteers and residents, the local government said the __________ in Beibei had been __________ on Thursday night. The example of a foreign teacher who volunteered to help fight the wildfire has __________ many.

A tornado is a rotating _________of air from a thunderstorm to the ground.The most _________has winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.

Tornadoes can _________ cars，trains and even houses and put them down in the next street or _________ in the next town.They can take the fur_________the back of a cat.They destroy houses，but _________the furniture inside exactly where it was.

_________，there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year，_________ about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925，_________ three US states.By the time it ended，more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been __________.

__________ are strong tropical storms.They cause huge waves，heavy rain and__________ and usually hit the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.The__________ hurricane of all time occurred in 1,900.The disaster killed 6,000 people in a __________of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings.

Charles Coghlan，an Irish actor，__________to New York and became famous there.Then he moved to Galveston，__________ he died in 1899，a year before the hurricane__________.The cemetery where he was __________was destroyed by the hurricane and his coffin__________ in the sea.Eight years later，the coffin was found by fishermen in the east of Canada.The Gulf Stream had __________it 3,000 kilometers up the eastern US coast to Canada.Coghlan traveled to Canada after he had been buried in Texas!