高中英语教学：storm chaser.docx

Storm Chaser By?Mary Kay Morel I’M SITTING IN the back of a Chevy van somewhere in Nebraska, staring at the meanest-looking weather I’ve ever seen.“See that, Emily?” Dad points as he speeds toward the greenish underbelly of a monster cloud. “That’s the laboratory for a tornado.”“Really?” I gulp down a throat full of fear.?Actually, I should be used to the T word. Dad and I have been looking for tornadoes all week.He opens his window now, hangs his head out, and searches the sky. Then he points across a wheat field. I follow his finger and see a ragged chunk, dark as midnight, extend from the m