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Practice #2
Voice from inside a storm
This is the story of a
family that is hiding in their basement (underground area) in the
middle of a terrible windstorm.
Use the verb in parentheses to add the correct verb form (present tense,
present progressive, or simple past tense).
We ________ here in the
basement. It ________ noon and we ___________ down
(1-sit)
(2-be)
(3-come)
here at 4:30 this morning. This
__________ the storm season in this part of the U.S.
(4-be)
Tornados ________ big,
dangerous windstorms that ___________ houses and people's
(5-be)
(6-destroy)
lives. We usually __________
one or two storms each summer here and we are
(7-get)
___________ a tornado right
now. Tornados ____________ like huge funnels
(8-experience)
(9-look)
and _________ mostly over land
in the American Midwest.
(10-occur)
My family and I ____________ to
a battery-operated radio. We _______ the volume
(11-listen)
(12-have)
very high because the storm
__________ so hard. My daughter __________ because
(13-blow)
(14-cry)
she ________ we are going to be
hurt. I __________ her that we _______ safe here
(15-think)
(16-tell)
(17-be)
in the basement, but she still
_________ frightened. My wife ________ her in
(18-feel)
(19-hold)
her arms. Our little dog
_________ under a table in the corner. I _________ about our
(20-hide)
(21-think)
cat. She only _________ two
pounds and I ___________ she might be hurt or killed
(22-weigh)
(23-think)
in the storm. She (probably)
_____________ in a bush or something. Now the man on
(24-hide)
the radio _______ that the
tornado has passed and we ________ safe. We ________
(25-say)
(26-be)
(27-hope)
it is safe to go out now. We
_______ that there will be some damage, but we _______
(28-know)
(29-hope)
it is not too bad.
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