While you are much safer inside than out, lightning can strike you even in the home. Here’s how to 36  yourself indoors:

   1. Stay away from  37 .Get out of the shower of bath. Don’t  38  conductors such as fireplaces and metal pipes.

   Chery1 Falvey of Killingworth Conn., was struck 39  lightning last year while washing her clothes. Lightning 40 a window next to the washing machine, struck her right hand,  41  through her body and finally out of her  42 arm. “It was as though I was 43  a bolt(雷电)of lightning in my hands,” remembers Falvey, who was  44  across the room.

   2. Stay off the telephone. It isn’t an old wives’  45 –many people have been hurt through telephone wires. It was  46  outside while Peter Van Artijk, Jr. was on the 47   at his house in Florida. “    Bam! A bolt hit the building,” he says. “I  48 the hair on my arms stand on end and a charge(电荷)hit me through telephone, which was  49 blown out of my hand.”

   3. Unplug(拔插头)televisions, computers, etc. Don’t just turn them 50.If the house is struck, they could be damaged if you keep them  51  in.

   4. Try lightning rods(避雷针)if your  52  is very often hit by lightning.  53 fixed, says Rust, lightning rods  54the chances of damage to a home and to the  55   inside it.

36. A. save     B. hide          C. spend         D. protect

37. A. houses    B. rooms        C. doors         D. windows

38. A. touch        B. grasp         C. move         D. seize

39. A. by      B. through       C. into          D. with

40. A. broke        B. reached       C. entered        D. forced

41. A. slipped   B. traveled       C. spread         D. rolled

42. A. wounded    B. hurt        C. right         D. left

43. A. holding     B. carrying     C. keeping       D. placing

44. A. shaken   B. swept       C. thrown        D. drawn

45. A. talk        B. tale        C. news         D. report

46. A. dark       B. lightning     C. silent         D. raining

47. A. phone      B. sofa        C. bed          D. chair

48. A. felt        B. discovered   C. found         D. sensed

49. A. simply     B. hardly      C. almost        D. completely

50. A. on        B. over           C. off           D. down

51. A. turned    B. plugged     C. opened        D. played

52. A. town       B. area        C. building       D. courtyard

53. A. Properly    B. Exactly      C. Correctly      D. Prettily

54. A. recover     B. reuse       C. repair         D. reduce

55. A. men       B. women      C. people        D. families

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