P3 Cloze 53

A tornado is _______ to as a violent and destructive whirlwind.

Other commonly used terms are cyclone, twister and funnel. A tornado is _______ of marching across the countryside, uprooting everything in its path as it moves along.

Some tornadoes begin over lakes and seas. _______ whirling winds are known as waterspouts.

Although they spin more gently than tornadoes, they are still _______ enough to pick a boat clean out of the water.

In the past, waterspouts were _______ for long-necked sea monsters.

As they spin up a funnel of water from a water body, they dart from left to right and this _______ resembles the moving necks and heads of dinosaurs.

Even today, some people think a waterspout lies _______ the lelegend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster.

Bizarre accounts of fish, stones or frogs falling from the sky have been _______ in the past.

In 1939, in Trowbridge in Wiltshire, people were astonished when a thunderstorm _______ andthey saw hundreds of frogs falling down from the sky.

It was 'raining' frogs, literally! It is a fact that waterspouts can suck up animals or anything on land or in the water. The objects and animals are then ______ along by the wind before being released to the ground.