原版英语小短文 136. A Tornado

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　　It was a warm spring day. It was sunny, but a storm was coming. The sky turned dark gray. Then a black funnel¹ descended² from the sky. The black funnel touched the ground. It was a tornado³. A tornado is strong. A tornado picks up cars and trucks. They fly through the air like pieces of paper. The tornado siren⁴ blasted⁵. It warned everyone in town to take cover. Everyone gathered their kids and pets. They went downstairs into their basements. A tornado can destroy a house, but the basement is safe. Sometimes a tornado hits a town without warning. A year ago, a man was sitting in his bathtub. He was enjoying his bath. He heard a loud sound. He thought a train was crashing into his house. But he did not live near the railroad tracks. It wasn't a train. A tornado struck his house without warning. The tornado destroyed the man's whole house. Suddenly he was taking his bath outside. The roof and walls of his house were gone. His wife came home. At first she cried because her house was gone. Then she laughed. Her husband looked so funny sitting in the tub. He couldn't leave the tub because he had no clothes. He didn't want his neighbors to see him without clothes. His wife had a towel in the trunk of her car. She gave him a towel, and he climbed out of the tub. They were both happy that he was alive.