The awful night rolled slowly away, and the dawn greyly broke on THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII! The crowd looked upwards, and saw, with unspeakable fear, a huge cloud 【小题1】 (shoot) from the top of the volcano. It took the form of 【小题2】 huge tree: the trunk, blackness, the branches, fire! This fire moved and changed in colour with every moment: now it was wildly bright, now of a pale and dying red, and now again it burnt with an 【小题3】 (bear) light!

The cries of women broke out; the man looked at each other, silent. At that moment, they felt the earth shaking 【小题4】 their feet; beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling 【小题5】 (roof). A moment later, the mountain—cloud seemed to roll towards them, dark and rapid, like a river; at the same time, it threw out a shower of ashes and huge pieces of 【小题6】   (burn) stone! Over the empty streets—over the forum—far and wide—with many a noise crash in the stormy sea— 【小题7】 (fall) that awful shower!

Each turned 【小题8】 (fly)—each running, pressing, pushing against the other. If, in the darkness, wife 【小题9】 (separate) from husband, or parent from child, there was no hope of their meeting again. Each hurried blindly and 【小题10】 (fear) on. So came the earthquake. . . and so ended life in Pompeii.

The first Smokey Bear poster shows a brown-coated bear wearing jeans. He is staring 【小题1】 （shy） up from under a campaign hat as he pours a bucket of water over a campfire. “SMOKEY SAYS,” the poster 【小题2】（read） , “Care will prevent 9 out of 10 forest fires!”

Albert Staehle, the illustrator, chose a bear because he might have wanted Smokey 【小题3】 （look） like the father of the forest, as his wife supposed. But many will forever associate the cartoon with a real baby bear, 【小题4】 paws（爪子）were burnt in a 1950 spring wildfire.

The baby bear had been rescued by Ray Bell, a forest ranger （护林员） 【小题5】（ fight） a fire in New Mexico's Capitan Mountains. Don Bell was 15 when his father came home with the five-pound bear. The Bell family was constantly taking in wild animals to protect them 【小题6】 potential dangers, so Don Bell didn't think much of the "cute little guy" who slept in a rabbit cage. But the story of the rescued baby bear would become 【小题7】 national phenomenon. At the capital airport, the 【小题8】 （arrive） of Smokey drew hundreds of reporters, photographers and onlookers, and he appeared in 【小题9】（newspaper） across the country.

At the zoo, Smokey drew millions of visitors during 26 years. Having a living animal symbol helped make the wildfire-safety campaign more visible. The Smokey ads were also a far 【小题10】（ good） choice.

On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign that the fierce weather was on its way—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. Soon the tornado was on top of us. It was the 【小题1】 (loud) thing I had ever heard. The house was shaking, and the power went out. And the wind 【小题2】(begin) to roar(咆哮) through the house. Everything was moving. My husband and I must reach the storeroom(储存室) on the first floor 【小题3】(keep) us safe relatively. When we finally reached the last flight of 【小题4】(step), our front door was blown open. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch(树枝) flew over our heads, 【小题5】(miss) us by inches(短距离). By the time I reached the storeroom, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. My husband pushed me down to the storeroom floor, 【小题6】 he couldn’t get inside himself because 【小题7】 the wind. I held his arm as the tornado blew the door open. All of 【小题8】 sudden, his feet stayed off the ground. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. I couldn’t believe it was over. Our neighbor said the storm caused serious damage, 【小题9】 lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses 【小题10】 (destroy). Luckily, none of us were seriously injured.