1 . Christine, an experienced skydiver, was about to complete her 112th jump in Johannesburg. Christine decided that she would _________ a sitting position jump for the first time.

Jumping off the plane from 3,353 meters, she stayed in that _________ until about 1,828 meters, when she flattened her body and _________ her parachute (降落伞) as she had done many times before. Unlike the _________ 111 jumps, however, this time, something felt different, and Christine soon realized that something had gone _________.

The first thing she noticed was that she had not slowed down, _________ she also couldn’t see the familiar life-saving canopy (伞盖) above her head. Christine realized her main parachute had not opened, so she _________ changed to her reserve (备用) chute before cutting away the main. But this effort sent her turning around wildly out of _________.

As she was falling toward the _________, Christine thought about her family and upcoming wedding before realizing she was __________ straight into live power lines. This seemed to be terrible luck at the time but probably saved her life as they broke her fall before she __________ into the earth, suffering a broken pelvis (骨盆) and other injuries. Fortunately, she was __________ during her falling by a passerby who stopped his truck to __________ an ambulance and help the stricken woman.

Christine eventually made a full __________, although she did ask her would-be-husband to change their upcoming honeymoon __________ from their adventurous ideas of skydiving and cage-diving with great white sharks to something less dangerous.