Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly 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 in the morning and lasted for over an hour.

“I was eating 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 to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”

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

“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”

Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.

Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually relieve (减轻) stress?     26     In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.

“Doing some housework such as folding the clothes or sweeping the floor is a good way to relieve our stress without taking any medicine,” says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist (心理学家) in New York.     27     “While washing something,” she says, “you can imagine you’re washing away some trouble in your life.”

    28     Here are some other people’s ideas about it. “Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life,” says Linda in France. “    29    ”

A man pays a psychologist 200 dollars an hour for his problem about stress.     30     “I really don’t know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man,” says Gary, a single father in America.