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Practice #2  Voice from inside a storm - answers

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 _are sitting_ here in the basement. It _is____ noon and we _came______ down here at
           (1-sit)                                         (2-be)                         (3-come)

4:30 this morning. This _is______ the storm season in this part of the United States.
                                    (4-be)

Tornados __are_____ big, dangerous windstorms that _destroy___ houses and people's
                (5-be)                                                           (6-destroy)

lives. We usually __get_____ one or two storms each summer here and we are
                               (7-get)

_are experiencing__ a tornado right now. Tornados _look_________ like huge funnels
(8-experience)                                                           (9-look)

and _occur_______ mostly over land in the American Midwest.
         (10-occur)

My family and I _are listening_ to a battery-operated radio. We _have____ the volume
                           (11-listen)                                                         (12-have)

very high because the storm _is blowing___ so hard. My daughter _is crying___ because
                                                (13-blow)                                    (14-cry)

she _thinks___ we are going to be hurt. I _told____ her that we _are (were)_ safe here
      (15-think)                                        (16-tell)                         (17-be)

in the basement, but she still _feels____ frightened. My wife _is holding_ her in
                                           (18-feel)                                    (19-hold)

her arms. Our little dog _is hiding_ under a table in the corner. I_am thinking_ about our
                                        (20-hide)                                         (21-think)

cat. She only _weighs_ two pounds and I _think (am thinking) she might be hurt or killed
                       (22-weigh)                                      (23-think)

in the storm. She (probably) _is probably hiding_ in a bush or something. Now the man on
                                                    (24-hide)

the radio _is saying_ that the tornado has passed and we _are (will be)_ safe. We _are hoping_
                  (25-say)                                                            (26-be)                  (27-hope)

it is safe to go out now. We _know_ that there will be some damage, but we _are hoping_
                                             (28-know)                                                       (29-hope)

it is not too bad.

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