It was a dark day in Canada in 1988 when rain began to fall from the sky. However, this was not ordinary rain—it turned to ice as it fell     16     the cold air. It rained for six days, and was as much as ten centimeters of ice     17     on roads, trees and power lines.

On 5th January, the people of Montreal     18     to find they had no electricity in their homes. It was dark and cold. The roads were covered in ice, and it was very dangerous to walk or drive anywhere. Families had to stay inside and burn wood to keep warm. They expected the power to come back     19    .

However, the ice kept falling. It caused branches and whole trees to fall down. More power lines fell down, and the roads became even more dangerous.

By the third day, many families had no food to eat. It was a difficult time. The     20     sent over 14,000 soldiers to help.

Finally, after six days, the ice storm stopped but the trouble was not over. The huge amount of ice made the whole area very dangerous. As the ice started to melt, it fell from the roofs of buildings and trees like     21    . Most of the power lines were so badly damaged that they could not be     22    .

Some families had no electricity for a whole month. Many homes were damaged and many people,     23     farmers, had to move away. The people of Canada will never forget how terrible nature can be. Everyone hopes that there will never be another ice storm like the one in 1998.

Film Guide Thursday

What will you do if you get five million? Some people give some d    47     answers.

I want to do business. If I am r    48    , I will do a lot of things for my family. For me, nothing is more important than my family. I will buy a new house for them and travel around the world.

If I have five million. I will use this money to do everything I like. At first, I will use two million to open my own shop. And I will use another two million of this money to buy some new houses. In the future, the houses which I buy will become more e    49    , and I will sell to other people. Finally I will use the last o    50     million to buy some presents for my family and my best friends.

If I have five million, I will put three million in the b    51     and spend two million. I will visit Paris, London and New York. I will eat delicious food, play games, and build a building with a s    52     pool.

I will buy an island if I have five million. Then I will be the King of the island and I will i    53     my friends to my island.

It was snowing very hard for days. Bob’s two dogs, Jigs and Reets, had nothing to eat for a day. They knew that things weren’t right at home, so yesterday morning they wanted to go out. Bob put them out through the window because the snow was so deep outside that he couldn’t open the door.

Last night they didn’t come back. “Dead,” Bob said to himself, “They are only five months old. This weather will kill them.” But just then Bob heard them calling him. He looked out and could not believe that they were drawing (挖出) big dead hare (野兔) through the snow. They dropped it through the window into Bob’s hands. Here for dinner!

60. Write at least 60 words on the topic “Saving electricity”, using the following questions as reference. (请根据提示问题，以“节约用电”为题写一篇短文，不少于60个词，标点符号不占格。)