Listen to the
conversation. Use the list below to fill in the missing words. CD2, Track 4
bathtub
evacuate
hurricane
North
ready
TV
batteries
flashlights
hurricanes
power
residents
warning
candles
garage
knock down
power lines
storm
yard furniture
a. That was a
really bad hurricane you had last month!
b. I know. It was
our first hurricane since we moved here to 1__________
Carolina. We thought it was terrible, but the old-time residents told us it was
just an average one.
a. How much 2_______________ did you
have?
b. Warning?!
That’s all we got. Twenty-four hours a day, all day, for about a week. The
radio, the TV, the newspapers. The news was nonstop.
a. So, what did
you do to get 3_______________?
b. Well, we had
to get everything out of the yard. We put the yard furniture and the barbecue
grill, the garbage cans—everything—into the 4_______________ . If we didn’t, they could fly through
a window during the hurricane. And we bought lots of food— canned food—in case
we didn’t have 5_______________
for cooking. We had to buy batteries for
6_______________ and
radios. And they told us to buy water—lots and lots of water. And we filled the
7_______________ with
water, too. We also bought a power saw.
a. A power saw?
b. Uh-huh.
Hurricanes 8__________________
trees. And in a bad hurricane, two or three trees might fall in your yard.
Everyone around here has power saws to cut them up.
a. How bad was
the hurricane?
b. I thought it
was terrible. The rain was so heavy we couldn’t see out the windows. The wind
was about 80 miles an hour and it reached (=went up to) 100 miles an hour at times. It knocked down the 9_____________________, and
we didn’t have electricity for two days. We were lucky only one tree came down
in the back yard. But our neighbor had a tree come down right through his roof
into one of the bedrooms upstairs. He had water all over (everywhere), in all the rooms, because the rain was
so heavy and it rained for hours.
a. So, did you 10__________________?
b. No, we stayed
in the house. For this storm, most people stayed in their houses.
a. Were you
scared?
b. I was so
scared! Most of the time, I stayed in the bathroom. I thought,any minute, something was going to come flying through
a window or that a tree was going to fall on our house. My husband was more
relaxed. He lit 11_______________
and listened to the news.
a. So, are you
glad you moved to North Carolina?
b. Well, we
really like it here, but these 12__________________…I
don’t know. Maybe we’ll get
used to (习惯于, acostumbrado, привы́кший) them.
1 North
2 warning
3 ready
4 garage
5 power
6 flashlights
7 bathtub
8 knock down
9 power lines
10 evacuate
11 candles
12 hurricanes
