What can people do when natural disasters (災(zāi)難）happen? Can we stop them? No, we can't. The only thing we can do is to 41  after the disasters.
Last year I met Mr. Flood. It started raining and   42  raining almost a month: the water on the streets got higher and higher every day. We used   43  instead of cars. We lost lots of things, including our businesses, our jobs and our homes.
Schools   44  and farms were destroyed. We ran out of food and clean water. In some places the water was higher than the buildings. I felt like we lived in a(n)  45 _ world.
Because of the flood, lots of  46  broke out. Because of the dead animals, some people  47  . The soil and other things made the water become very, very  48 _. That was in summer time, so though it was raining, the  49  was still high. The hot weather and really dirty water 50  the air very bad. Hospitals didn't have enough rooms for  51  .
When the flood was over, I looked around my city. The word “ 52 ” can describe the situation. Everything was destroyed and lots of people were sick, but we were very  53  .1 think.
We had to 54  our city, take care of the sick people, and start our schools again. I just 55 that one day, people can stop the natural disasters whenever they happen. After all, people are very clever.
【小題1】A. wake up       B. make up         C. clean up
【小題2】A. kept          B. finished          C. stopped
【小題3】A. bikes         B. trains            C. boats
【小題4】A. started        B. closed          C. opened
【小題5】A. water.        B. fire              C. ice
【小題6】A. happiness     B. illnesses          C. hardness
【小題7】A. ran          B. slept             C. died
【小題8】A. dirty         B. clean             C. clear
【小題9】A. temperature   B. weather           C. water
【小題10】A. had.         B. made             C. changed
【小題11】A. nurses       B. doctors            C. patients
【小題12】A. sad          B. beautiful          C. good
【小題13】A. weak        B. strong            C. happy
【小題14】A. rebuild       B. return            C. remain
【小題15】A. want         B. hope             C. see

No family wants its home to catch fire, but it's good to plan for a fire just in case （以防萬一）. Talk with your family about  36 to do if a fire starts.   37  should have a plan for getting out of the house. Be sure to choose a safe place to   38  after everyone gets away from the fire.
What should you do   39  there is a fire?  First,   40  people know about the fire. Yell （叫喊） the word "fire". Knock on the walls with your hands.
Then   41  the door of your room. If the door is warm, don't open it. If it's cool, open it just enough to  42 . If you see fire or much smoke, close the door fast.
If you can't see fire or smoke, you can go out of the door. Shut the  43  behind you. That will slow down the fire. Now find a   44 out. Stay away from the smoke. The air is the  45  near the floor. So it   46  be the safest to crawl（爬）when you leave the house.
If you can't leave your room,  close your door. Cover the crack （縫隙） under the door
  47   clothing. Then open the window or   48  the glass with a chair. Crawl out, of the window   49 .If the window is high off the ground,   50 jump! Wave a towel out of the window, and yell for help. When you get out of the house, run to the place where you and your family chose to meet.

One afternoon, I went to pick up my mother from work.I got there a little early, so I _______ (41) my car by a small park, and _______ (42) for her.
As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running _______ (43) on the grass as his mother _______ (44) from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been ______ (45) free from some sort of prison .The boy would then fall to the grass , (46) up , without looking back at his mother , run as_______ (47) as he could ,again , still with a smile on his face ,as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself , “why aren’t most adults this way ?” Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even _______ (48) a second attempt. They would be so _______ (49) that they would not try again if someone saw them fall .Or , because they fall , they would find a good _______ (50) for themselves that they’re not fit for it . They would end up too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure.
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a _______ (51) experience. They try again and again until they _______ (52) .The answer must be that they have not connected“falling down” with the word “failure”. As a _______ (53), they are not discouraged in any way .Besides, they _______ (54) think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In other words ,they allow themselves to make _______ (55), so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy’s persistence (堅持不懈) and the manner in which he did.

Homesick is a compound(復(fù)合的) word made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each   46   means on its own, of course. But do you know the meaning    47   they are used together? The definition(定義) of homesick is SICK FOR HOME. It means you miss your home.
Now think for a minute   48 SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the definition to the word SEA, would the definition   49 SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite   50 . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are    51   ,the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick,    52   you want to be is at sea.
Have you ever   53   a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are    54  deep inside as if their hearts are broken.
And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and    55  . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know some thing like this in your English study.

No family wants its home to catch fire, but it's good to plan for a fire just in case （以防萬一）. Talk with your family about  36 to do if a fire starts.   37  should have a plan for getting out of the house. Be sure to choose a safe place to   38  after everyone gets away from the fire.

What should you do   39  there is a fire?  First,   40  people know about the fire. Yell （叫喊） the word "fire". Knock on the walls with your hands.

Then   41  the door of your room. If the door is warm, don't open it. If it's cool, open it just enough to  42 . If you see fire or much smoke, close the door fast.

If you can't see fire or smoke, you can go out of the door. Shut the  43  behind you. That will slow down the fire. Now find a   44 out. Stay away from the smoke. The air is the  45  near the floor. So it   46  be the safest to crawl（爬）when you leave the house.

If you can't leave your room,  close your door. Cover the crack （縫隙） under the door

  47   clothing. Then open the window or   48  the glass with a chair. Crawl out, of the window   49 .If the window is high off the ground,   50 jump! Wave a towel out of the window, and yell for help. When you get out of the house, run to the place where you and your family chose to meet.