The tornado siren(龙卷风报警器) sounded at the Little Sioux Scout(童子军) Ranch in western Iowa just before the power went out on June 11,2008. Scout Leader Fred Ullrich____the door of the building where he and 65 boy scouts had taken shelter. “I was____lightning and listening for the tornado sound, but there was____like that,” Ullrich says. “But I knew we were in____. I asked the boys to get under the tables.” As the scouts ran for____,the wind came up. Ullrich tried to come in and push the door shut, but____he was picked up and thrown from the____. Then the wind blew the boy scout shelter apart. “I can only describe my actions at that moment as being____, ”Ullrich says. “There was nothing I could do.”

Once the tornado____, Ullrich noticed that all around him was a mess. Some scouts were covered by the debris(瓦砾). For a short moment Ullrich didn’t____what to do. Then he took action. He____the able-bodied to look after the injured. Ullrich was trained in first aid, skills that____helped the scouts that day. But before any of that formal training would even____, Ullrich needed another important skill：to get hold of himself and get people____.

When rescue workers arrived, what they saw was____— four scouts were dead or seriously wounded. Yet, amazingly, they also____that Ullrich and the uninjured scouts were putting their training to word. They had____the most seriously injured for their journey to the hospital.

Ullrich places much importance on the training they received. “We were ____not to be the people who sit around when something____happens,” he says, “but to be the type of people who____something.”

I grew up both a little frightened and excited by storms and tornadoes. Nearly 9 years ago, when the news reported that there would be _________ coming that night, I was well aware of the _________ of it.

While I was preparing for the storm, I heard the rumble (隆隆声), saw power flashes and knew it was coming. After _________ the power for safety, I jumped into a bath that was right inside the door and closed the door and laid down and _________ my head and prayed for _________ and for my family.

My _________ was racing with a million thoughts, regrets, prayers, etc, but I still heard the storm _________ my house, and then the sheetrock (石膏板) overhead _________ and it sounded like my roof lifted and came back down. I heard the _________ of nails being pulled out of wall, glass breaking, and then the most __________ sound I had ever heard.

I suddenly felt something __________ my head and everything went __________. When I opened my eyes again, I __________ blood on my wet head coming from a small __________. I went out to check my car. I got blinded by a light as I exited the carport (车棚). It was my neighborhood, coming to check on me. I stood there and tears poured down my face. Fortunately, we were __________ that day.

On 20 December, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it ________ thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to ________ the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape ________ with her knowledge of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, ________ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft ________ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something ________. “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t ________ and it wasn’t going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the ________ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a Geography lesson.

Sabrina was _______, but she soon kept her head. She ________ her parents of the danger though at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible ______ was on its way and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety ________. To her great relief, the officer________ realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly ________ of people, just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.