【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Most of us know to stay low to the floor if we are caught in a fire, or head to the basement if a tornado’s coming, or board up the window in a hurricane. But, the massive earthquake that hit Haiti this month was a reminder that we are far     1     (expert) in what to do when the ground below us shakes. If we are in a house or building, for example, our first impulse might be to run outside— but, counter-intuitive (违反直觉的)     2     it might sound, experts warn against that since people are too often killed by falling debris as they try to escape.

Given how many of us travel in quake-prone regions today, even folks     3     don’t reside in California should know how to survive an earthquake. But there are two different and     4     (compete) schools of thought on the matter, both of which are considered valid but perhaps not always in the same situations.

The most conventional and widely accepted by the disaster-response community, is the “drop, cover and hold on” approach,     5     urges people to take cover beneath something like a heavy table     6     (avoid) falling objects. The second, newer method is known as “the triangle of life.” It recommends lying down in a fetal (胎儿的) position not under but next to furniture, as roofs and wall collapse atop those sofas and desks, buffer spaces are created that protect people from     7     (crush).

Over the past decade, an agreement has been reached     8     “drop, cover and hold on” is a more appropriate method for developed countries like the U. S, where improved construction     9     (reduce) the likelihood of structures collapsing greatly. The triangle of life is thought to be more appropriate in developing nations like Haiti, where poor building codes make finding a “survivable void” inside a collapsed building more important than protecting yourself from falling chandeliers. If you’re going to play the odds, drip-and-cover     10     be the best way to go, but a lot of emergency re-sponders might say triangle-of-life because they are the ones who see the fatalities in buildings that do collapse.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories,    1     destroy) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged    2    their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs. One person was killed, several were    3     (serious) hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.  

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early     4     the morning and lasted for over an hour.  

“I     5     (eat) with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best    6    climb) out but then I saw that one of my children was    7     (miss). I went back inside and found him, safe    8    very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she     9     (feel) that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department brought     10     (they) food, clothes and shelter.