You just can’t imagine what a brave mother is like. She was a mother of three children, who just _______an earthquake and couldn’t tell if her children were_______ for help. Or what if you knew you couldn’t yell at her for help because she couldn’t _______ you? That was what happened to Connie and her three children when the 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Napa, California. Connie is _______and communicates with her children using sign language. 

At midnight, Connie and her three children were_______on the first floor of their two-story home. She and her 16-year-old son, Juan, were_______ awake. Instantly, they realized there were no disaster supplies downstairs. Connie, also_______one-month-old Raul and 8-year-old Adriana, called Juan to come close to her in the darkness and_______ for him to go upstairs to get a_______. 

Juan slowly________ the stairs. He heard a loud creak (嘎吱声). Arriving on the top floor, he moved quickly but________ to get what he needed. Using the flashlight to guide his________, Juan came back to the first floor and the family was able to take a few________ and flee. Their home was almost in ruins. 

Being deaf was not a deterrent (遏制物) for this________ mother. The family made it to the shelter safely, which ________everyone.

Jess, a 12- year-old girl, lives in Mallacoota, a small town in Australia. She is one of many children having been through mental _______ and heartbreak in the New Year bush fires.

She _______ the bush fires with fear. “I’ve never been so scared. The sky was turned to blood red, and the embers (灰烬) were _______ all around us. It was much worse than any _______ film.” she said.

Jess, along with her family, spent two terrifying days on the local boat where rsidents stayed for _______ , and it was also a place where _______ could not be broken. Jess and her little companions planned to _______ their community garden and the house for chickens.

One blessing for Mallacoota is that no one _______ their life during the disaster. Roads into and out of the town are beginning to reopen.Wandering alone among the houses _______ to the ground, Jess still managed to find a ________ side and said at least now she would not have to clean her bedroom anymore. In no time she and her companions ________ started to rebuild the community garden and even ________ a family of chickens to the new “home”, making something bad into something good.

It’s a long road back to ________ life. But it is surely ________ if we have the will. As Jess said, “My beloved hometown will ________ again.”

I was a young newspaper reporter, and I wanted to succeed. My first _______ was in Latin America. It was almost my last job.

I had not planned to stay in the village of Zacate, _______ it had been raining hard for a whole day. So I had to stay there.

I found people there full of _______. This village was at the foot of a volcano (火山). It was becoming more _______. Men, women and children came to the square. A few helped each other and went out of town to get as far away from the volcano as possible, with large and full _______ in their hands. Suddenly, I felt a strong _______. The villagers in the square ran away as soon as they felt the earthquake.

Suddenly, I saw black smoke _______ down the side of the mountain towards the village. Trees and grass burned up in a second. The volcano eruption was coming so _______ that in less than a minute the roads to the villages were _______. All I could do was watch and wait. Suddenly, my landlord (房东) cried out, “Look!” He __________ to a small hill. The lava (岩浆) was not coming over it but __________ on each side of the village, leaving the village centre __________. For a time, at least, we were __________, unless the lava grew much bigger.

My landlord gave me a wet blanket to cover myself to avoid the __________ and we poured water over our heads to cool ourselves. We could hardly breathe (呼吸) because of the heat and the __________ of the burning houses. Thanks to my landlord, I survived the volcano.