Luis Sandoval was eating a sandwich after school when the phone rang. It was his father 【小题1】 (work) for the city government.

“Luis, 【小题2】 (be) your mother there?” he asked. “No, Papa. She went to the supermarket with Simon and Alex.”

“Please listen 【小题3】 (careful). Hurricane Dean is moving in our direction. It will reach our coast in three or four days. The government has declared (宣布) a state of emergency.”

“Are we 【小题4】 danger, Papa?”

“Not if we prepare. It may be as bad as Hurricane Wilma. Do you remember 【小题5】 we did then?”

“Yes, Papa.”

“Then start preparing.”

Luis remembered Hurricane Wilma very well. A rise in the ocean, usually 【小题6】 (call) a storm surge, flooded large areas along the coast. Winds up to 240 kilometres per hour destroyed homes.

Luis took out two backpacks and put some food, water, and other 【小题7】 (supply) in each one. By the time his mother and two little brothers came back, he 【小题8】 (pack) everything they needed.

The next morning, Luis and his mother and brothers left the city 【小题9】 (stay) at a storm shelter. They would be safe from the hurricane there. Luis’s father remained in the city to help those 【小题10】 could not leave.

Do your family often take a trip? For most families, a trip in a car to an unfamiliar (不熟悉的) area often goes with the question about which way 【小题1】 (take). This is not the case, however, in the Williams family. They never get 【小题2】 (lose) when five-year-old Daniel is with them. That’s because Daniel has the unbelievable 【小题3】 (able) to tell them the best way to get from one place to another anywhere in England and what’s more, he doesn’t need a map-he can do it 【小题4】 thinking.

Daniel 【小题5】 (be) interested in place names since he first learned to talk. When he was about three, he started asking his parents questions about how the roads they drove along joined up, and 【小题6】 soon became obvious that he had a super memory for maps. He had no difficulty 【小题7】 (remember) the roads he saw from the car window.

Now, after school, Daniel’s 【小题8】 (favor) game is drawing maps of the road systems in the places he hasn’t visited. His parents have no idea where his particular talent comes from 【小题9】 no one else in the family has it. Although he has other 【小题10】 (hobby) Daniel’s greatest goal in life is to become a mapmaker.

My husband, our children and I 【小题1】 (spend) wonderful camping experiences over the past ten years.

Some of our 【小题2】 (memory) are funny, especially from the early years 【小题3】 our children were little. Once, we camped along Chalk Creek. I was worried that our 15-month-old boy would fall into the creek (小溪). I tied a rope around his waist to keep him near to our spot. That lasted about ten minutes. He was uncomfortable, and his crying let the whole campground know it. So instead of 【小题4】 (tie) him up, I just kept a close eye on him. It worked—he didn’t end up in the creek. My three-year-old, however, did.

Another time, we rented 【小题5】 boat in a Lake. The sky was clear when we headed off, 【小题6】 storms move in fast in the mountains, and this one quickly interrupted our 【小题7】 (peace) morning trip. The wind picked up and thunder rolled. My husband stopped fishing 【小题8】 (start) the motor. Nothing. He tried again. No luck. We were stuck in the middle of the lake with a dead motor. As we all sat there 【小题9】 (helpless), a fisherman pulled up, 【小题10】 (throw) us a rope and towed (拖) us back. We were safe.

Now, every year when my husband pulls our camper out of the garage, we are filled with a sense of excitement, wondering what camping fun and adventure we will experience next.