1 . Bill Johnson was walking along the banks of the Niagara River, trying to find a good place to take a photo. Finally, he found the__________place. He leaned out (探出身子)__________the guardrail next to the pavement to get a better angle, when a gust of wind blew his camera out of his hand. Fortunately, it __________on the rocks right above the river instead of in the river itself. As the camera seemed just within__________, he knelt down and __________ out to get it. But before he knew it, he was falling head over heels into the river. Landing with a splash into the cold water, he tried to swim to shore, but the current was too __________.Then he saw a large rock in the river.__________, he tried to swim to it, but just as he reached out his hand to grab on to it, he found himself__________. He looked ahead, and could see the cloud of mist rising from the Niagara Falls __________nearer and nearer. Before he knew it, he was going over the falls. All he could see was white mist and water as he __________for what seemed like hours. Finally, the water turned dark, and he found himself buffeted (被冲击) like he was in a washing machine,__________over and over again, not knowing which __________was up. He then__________two things: That he was freezing cold, and that he could not breathe. He__________for a long while, but then realised that it was hopeless and that he could not__________ his breath for much longer. He allowed his body to go limp, surrendering (投降) himself to the rolling waves. But then, just as all hope was gone he found himself __________into the air.

Tired and gasping for breath, he paddled his hands, trying to stay afloat. Finally, he found himself being__________by his collar on to a pleasure boat at the base of the falls. Soon, he found himself __________in a warm blanket and being served hot cocoa. Then hours later he was reunited with his __________mother, who had seen him fall into the water and thought that he was dead. The next day there was his photo in the newspaper below the__________: “The Boy Who Survived Niagara Falls (尼亚加拉大瀑布).”