It was 3: 34 in the morning. Suddenly the bed moved a little. I woke up. That bed used to move a lot so I just thought it was my wife rolling (翻) over. I looked over to her and she was fast asleep. So I thought it was just ________ small tremor (轻微地震). We used to get many small tremors in Chile. But then everything in the room started making noise. The tremor got a bit ________. My wife woke up.

I went to open the front door to make sure it wouldn’t get stuck while my wife went to see ________ the kids were. They were still fast asleep.

I got to the front door and left it ________ just in case we had to run out. When I turned around to go back to the bedroom, the full force of the earthquake started to hit. I couldn’t move forward. While I was trying to hold myself up ________ the wall, I looked out of the window. It was frightening, some buildings coming in and out of view and some already falling down. Then the earthquake made a strong push and our lights ________. In the darkness, I thought, “This is it! We’re not coming out of this alive.”

Luckily, the terrible shaking gradually slowed down and then stopped. I could finally walk to our ________ room. My wife had been standing over them during the strongest part of the earthquake, making sure nothing ________ on them.

After such a big earthquake, we expected the “smaller” aftershocks to be still very strong. There was still a ________ that the building might fall down. So we woke the kids up, got some basic things and started to walk down the emergency(紧急情况) stairs... all 22 floors of them.

________ we finally arrived at the ground floor many other people bad already arrived, some in pajamas, some half-dressed. The good news was everyone got out of the building safe and sound.

There are some jobs you may not know in China. Although they sound strange, they do show up as professional jobs.