任务三 词汇运用
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Last Friday, a storm swept through two villages and destroyed fourteen homes. Seven others were so (1)
badly
(bad) damaged that their owners had to leave them. Fifteen others had (2)
broken
(break) windows or roofs. One person was killed. Several were seriously hurt and taken to hospital, and (3)
a
number of other people got smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were (4)
homeless
(home) after the storm.
Mr Tan, a villager, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.
“I was eating with my wife and children (5)
when
we heard a loud noise,” he said. “A few minutes (6)
later
(late), our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best (7)
to climb
(climb) out, but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him. He was safe but very frightened.”
Mrs Wu said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once (8)
with
her children.
“There was no time (9)
left
(leave) to take anything,” she said. “Within just a few minutes, the roof came down.”
Volunteers came to help take people out of the flooded area and the welfare(福利) department took (10)
action
(act) to offer them food, clothes and shelters.
