On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign that the fierce weather was on its way—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. Soon the tornado was on top of us. It was the     1     (loud) thing I had ever heard. The house was shaking, and the power went out. And the wind     2    (begin) to roar(咆哮) through the house. Everything was moving. My husband and I must reach the storeroom(储存室) on the first floor     3    (keep) us safe relatively. When we finally reached the last flight of     4    (step), our front door was blown open. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch(树枝) flew over our heads,     5    (miss) us by inches(短距离). By the time I reached the storeroom, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. My husband pushed me down to the storeroom floor,     6     he couldn’t get inside himself because     7     the wind. I held his arm as the tornado blew the door open. All of     8     sudden, his feet stayed off the ground. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. I couldn’t believe it was over. Our neighbor said the storm caused serious damage,     9     lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses     10     (destroy). Luckily, none of us were seriously injured.

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The main structure of the Datengxia water resources management facility in Southwest China has been completed four months ahead     1     schedule, the Ministry of Water Resources said on Saturday.

The project,     2     is located in the Xijiang River, has eight power generation     3     (unit), each with an installed capacity of 200,000 kilowatts (千瓦). It can     4     (annual) generate more than 6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.

In cooperation with other reservoirs (水库), the project can help Wuzhou, a city with     5     population of over 2.8 million in Guangxi, deal with once-in-a-hundred-year floods. Previously, the city was only able to hold floods that occur once every 50 years. The project also enables some cities in the Pearl River Delta     6     (resist) floods that happen once every two centuries.

The ministry said the Datengxia facility will also provide strong support for rural development, offering irrigation (灌溉) water to 80,000 hectares of farmland and     7     (address) drinking water shortage for almost 1.4 million people in Guangxi.

The project has already played     8     (significance) roles in the past three years when it was put into trial operation. For example, in June last year, it helped prevent     9     store about 700 million cubic meters of floodwater when the Xijiang River     10     (hit) by a flood. In the peak, it reduced water flow by 3,500 cubic meters per second.