As far as I know，the heavy storm was one of the worst 【小题1】(event) of the city. It hit the western part of the city last night. The wind speed reached eighty kilometers per hour. The storm caused serious damage【小题2】 at least two hundred homes. A great number of families 【小题3】(be) left homeless after the roofs of the houses were blown away. Scenes of the disaster could be seen everywhere，which made people 【小题4】(frighten).

In Main Street，the city park was flooded completely. Many cars 【小题5】(destroy) completely by floodwater. One car owner without full insurance burst out 【小题6】(cry).Some cars were carried across the parking area and dumped(倾斜) into storm-water drains. In another block，a tree fell on a bus 【小题7】 was taking some football players to a game.【小题8】(luck)，no one in the bus got 【小题9】(injure).

It was pleasing that the storm was finally at 【小题10】 end after doing extreme damage.

On February 16, 1861, a big earthquake struck Sumatra, an Indonesian island. The earthquake shook the western side of the island, 【小题1】 (cause ) a tsunami. That wall of water poured onto shore, destroying towns and taking thousands of【小题2】 (life) .

Recently, though, a team of scientists discovered that another earthquake occurred before this deadly event. According to the record, that earthquake 【小题3】 (start) in 1829 and lasted for 32 years but no one felt even one shake. This kind of slow-moving earthquake【小题4】 (call) “silent earthquakes” because no instrument can find them. Scientists have only begun discovering them because【小题5】 the advances in GPS technology in the last twenty years.

【小题6】 (find) out what is going on under the ground, scientists need to study earthquakes. Every earthquake, either small 【小题7】 big, can teach scientists something about how much the ground will shake in the future. Unluckily, no one can predict (预测) when an earthquake will hit. Scientists just have to prepare to study all earthquakes【小题8】 hit.

But silent earthquakes like the one in Sumatra change the game for scientists. These silent earthquakes happen all over【小题9】 world. Sometimes, a silent earthquake happens just before a regular one, both of which might be related. By studying silent earthquakes, scientists hope to better understand regular earthquakes and【小题10】(possible) predict them.

Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and 【小题1】 (fall). Deep cracks appeared in the well walls. Chickens and even pigs were 【小题2】 nervous to eat and fish jumped out of the water. Dogs refused to go inside the buildings. At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. In an instant, the city lay in 【小题3】 (ruin). A huge crack cut across houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. 【小题4】 number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400,000. Consequently, thousands of children 【小题5】 (leave) without parents.

Later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan again, 【小题6】 made more buildings fall down. People found water, food, and electricity hard 【小题7】 (get) and wondered how long the disaster would last. But hope was not lost. 【小题8】 (luck), 150,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane. Besides, workers built shelters for 【小题9】 (survive) whose homes had been destroyed. Slowly, Tangshan started to revive 【小题10】 (it) and breathe again.