语篇提能
阅读理解
A
The morning of that March, was a busy one for the students in Mrs. Goodknight's class in Henryville, Indiana. There was a morning meeting with poems to read, jokes to share, and tests to prepare for. “It was just an ordinary day，” says student Lyric Darling, 12.
At noon, while students played basketball under a sunny sky, a huge tornado was forming 50 miles away. Around 2：25 p．m., 20 minutes before school was supposed to let out, a huge tornado touched down in Fredericksburg, 20 miles away. As word spread, parents rushed to the school. Teachers rushed to get kids onto buses or into waiting cars. By 2：45, the skies were darkening.
“I was crying，” says Lyric. “All around me, kids were crying.” Two buses returned to the school with
