2 . In December 2013, photojournalist Wood set out to become the first person to walk the length of the Nile River.

Wood’s journey began in Rwanda, took nine months and ________ 3,750 miles. It was necessary to make the trip on foot, he says, because “________ is the only way you can really get under the skin of a country.”

Wood acknowledges that his ________ was often dependent on the hospitality (好客) of local villagers. The people of the Sudan, he says, were probably the most ________ of all. Even sharing water, he says, ________ an incredible act of kindness.

“The biggest challenge was the sun ________ down. Most of the day I had to be ________ to the sun,” he recalls, “My guide had a catapult (弹弓). He would shoot pigeons. Other times we’d eat with villagers. The local ________ could vary, from grasshoppers to rats.”

The journey wasn’t without danger. Civil War in South Sudan ________ shortly after his arrival. He made it halfway through the country, to Bor—the front line of the war. It was there that he was arrested and ________ before an army commander, who told him he was not ________, and threatened to kill him if he crossed the border. He was evacuated (疏散)   to the capital, and flew to North Sudan.

“I ________ out 400 miles of the journey,” he regretted.

Had he made the trip ________, he would ________ have achieved a Guinness World Record. But he says it doesn’t matter.

“It was never about breaking records, it was about taking the biggest ________ in my life, and it was certainly that.”