On August 23rd, 2017, the strongest typhoon named Hato (天鸽) hit Zhuhai seriously. Do you still remember how ________ it was?

It seemed people all over the city stayed at home to ________ Hato’s arrival. I sat by the ________ and kept watching the changes outside. The winds blew so strongly that the sky was in a mess. It was full of leaves and ________. More and more dark clouds hung over the city. ________, the power (电力) was cut off while the winds were blowing like a monster. It was so scary that I ________ my ears tightly. How I wished the typhoon could just disappear!

About fifteen minutes later, the powerful winds began sweeping with heavy rain. Even the big trees were uprooted. On my ________, I saw the 5-meter-high waves rushing fiercely, with Zhuhai Fisher Girl standing poorly there.

The typhoon didn’t ________ until 8 o’clock. When I got downstairs, I was shocked to see a number of fallen trees, which made the neighborhood look like a forest! Only then did I ________ how terrible Hato was. Luckily, people came together to clean up and learned a ________ from it. The typhoon broke many things apart, but it also brought people closer together.

The victims were carried in one by one, their paws and fur burned, suffering from dehydration(脱水) and fear. Their caretakers treated their wounds, and ______ them in baskets with the only thing that was ______— the leaves of eucalyptus(桉树) tree. As terrible fires have ______ more than 2 million acres in Australia, only dozens of koalas have been _____ from the smoky trees and black ground.

Koalas, unlike kangaroos, birds or snakes, do not _____ from fires but instead climb trees to the top, where they can make themselves into a ball for ______ and wait for the danger to ______.

But during big fires, such as those that have burned in recent weeks, the animals are far less likely to ______. Even if the fire itself does not reach the ______ of the trees, the animals may fall to the ground, where they can be burned to death.

We have these special animals not found _____ else on this planet, and we are killing them. This is a big wake-up call.

This is a story about a storm in Moscow. It happened several years ago. It was my first time that I had seen such a ________ storm.

It was a sunny day in July, and I was at home watching TV. The window was open ________ the weather was so hot. Suddenly, I felt a strong wind from outside. I looked out of the window and saw a black sky and trees ________ over because of the strong wind. I tried to ________ the window, but the wind made me fall down. I was afraid that the glass might break. I stood up and tried to close the window again. ________, I made it.

Then I looked outside. I found that the big tree in front of my house was going to fall to the ground and its ________ had broken off. There was frequent (频繁的) thunder and lightning. I started to________ all the appliances as quickly as possible.

After a while, the wind stopped, but it began to hail (下冰雹). After about ten minutes, everything stopped, and the Sun came out again. How ________ the weather was! A few minutes later,the phone began to ring. It was my friend. We asked each other how it was and how we felt after the storm.

In the streets, many trees died because of the ________. For a few days, people helped clean parks and gardens. Some people’s cars were damaged by trees’ falling branches on them. The ________ tells me that in the face of natural disasters, human beings are insignificant (微不足道的). We can’t stop them, but we must protect ourselves from them.