In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders were in Australia to prepare for the World Championship. They included Ewa Wisnierska, a German paragliding champion (冠军). One morning, as the _______ were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a terrible storm was coming. However, they decided to _______. After all, these were the best paragliders in the world.

Unluckily, as the competitors took off, the weather quickly became _______. Ewa tried to get away from the storm, but two huge _______ came together and caught her.

The clouds pulled Ewa up inside the storm like a leaf in the _______. She flew higher and higher, with lightning (闪电) and hailstones (冰雹) all around her. “I was _______,” she told reporters afterwards. “The last thing I _______, it was dark. I could hear lightning all around me.” She _______ to about 10,000 meters high and then lost all her senses. At that height, the temperature was about -40℃.

After forty minutes Ewa woke up. She was still inside the storm. It was dark and hailstones were _______ past. They were as big as tennis balls. Finally, Ewa came out of the storm cloud and _______ towards a small farm and landed _______. She fell to the ground, too _______ to call for help. When her team ________ her, she was 60 km away from the place where she took off. She was covered in ice—but alive!

Ewa was sent to a (an) _______ for treatment at once, but a few days later, she competed in the World Championship. “Flying is too fantastic to stop _______ an accident,” she said.