A 57-year-old Tonga man survived a night in the ocean after a tsunami (海啸) wave swept him out to sea last Saturday.

Lisala Folau was painting his house last Saturday, _________ his brother told him a tsunami was moving toward the small island of Atata. The island has a population of about 60.

Folau is _________ and has difficulty walking. He climbed a tree to _________ the first wave but when he got down, another big wave _________ him away.

Folau was swept out to sea at about 7 p.m. local time. Then, he _________ or swam another eight hours to a second _________ with no one living on it before finally swimming again to the main island of Tongatapu. The _________ lasted more than 27 hours and _________ 7.5 kilometres.

Folau said that he went _________ nine times. The ninth time he went under and came up and __________ a log. And that’s what kept him __________.

Tongan officials said they learned a man was __________ from Atata island and they weren’t very __________ about it.

There was even a video recorded by Folau’s son, who went __________ for his father. The video shows, that almost __________ was left standing on the island other than a church, where many of the villagers took ad __________.

“It’s one of these __________ that happens,” said an official.

The story of Folau’s __________ went viral among Tongan groups on social media. “Real life Aquaman,” said one post, __________ the comic book and movie character. When __________ if he knew who Aquaman was, Folau said he did not.

On a cold November night, Layton was on his way home when he got an urgent call from his mother. “The mountain’s on fire.” she _______, “and many rental guests were up there.”

Layton’s family _______ a dozen rental cottages on Shields Mountain. At the thought of this, Layton _______ the gas on the dirt back road.

He _______ first to Layton’s rental cottages to make sure whether his guests were _______. Fortunately, all his guests were. At that point, he made up his mind to _______ his cottages to rescue tourists _______ other cottages nearby.

Over the next two hours, he travelled through the _______ mountain, knocking on doors and leading _______ people to safety. Knowing the mountain so well, he drove one after another family down the mountain on roads ________ in smoke in his pickup. When one family was ________ from the fire, Layton would take the pickup ________ up the mountain in search of another ________ person. He helped one elderly woman flee barefoot ________ hot road surface to reach his car and found a man unconscious in a burning cottage and ________ him to his car. Thankfully, he helped 14 people out of danger despite that he had ________ escaped the burns.

________ his brave and immediate action, the fire didn’t ________ a single life on Shields Mountain. And though his business were destroyed, Layton remains ________ “I wasn’t worried about the property ________, not when I saw those families trapped on the mountain.” he says, “I knew I was gonna help them.”

Earthquakes are common；thousands of them happen each day.But most are ______ weak to feel.During a ______ earthquake，there is often a great noise first.Then the earth ______ terribly and many houses ______ down.Railway tracks break and trains go ______ lines；a great many factories are ______；thousands of deaths are caused，and many more lose homes...______ the great damage and deaths caused by the earthquake ______，other disasters such as fires often______.More buildings are destroyed and more ______ caused.

It is well known of the ______ of a possible earthquake，and for centuries man has been making researches on earthquakes.More than 2,000 years ago，______，a Chinese scientist named Zhang Heng ______ a machine which could find out from which ______ the seismic(地震的) waves had come，and this machine is still ______ by scientists today.Now we know much more about earthquakes and ______ they happen，but we still cannot ______ exactly when and where an earthquake will happen，and cannot ______ it from happening.So earthquakes are among the ______ disasters in the world.

No one can stop natural earthquakes.______，scientists can help stop earthquakes destroying whole cities and causing too many deaths.