1 . The waterfall was coming. Curtis Newman, his wife Krystal Ramirez and his 13-year-old son Hunter thought they would jump out of their small boat into the water. But this year was different. Heavy snow and spring rains had turned the usually controllable waterfall into something fierce (凶猛的). As they approached the waterfall late on the afternoon of the third day of their camping trip, Newman could tell from the increasing roar of water in the narrow canyon (峡谷) that they were in trouble. There was no way they’d be able to move down the rocks on either side of the waterfall.

There was no cell phone service, and they hadn’t seen a single person in the past three days. As he wondered what to do, Newman heard voices coming from the other side of the waterfall. “We have to get those people a message, he thought. He picked up a stick and pulled out his pocketknife to carve” Help on it. He tried tossing it over the waterfall, but it floated away in the wrong directions. Krystal reminded him that he had a pen and paper in his backpack (背包). Newman knew it was an impossible attempt, but he wrote “6-15-19 We are stuck here @ the waterfall. Help please” and put the note into a bottle. This time, he threw the bottle over the waterfall successfully.

It took them about 30 minutes to go back to the beach where they had lunch. By about 10: 30 pm, they pulled out their sleeping bags. Then, just after midnight, they heard a helicopter hovering (盘旋) above them. Newman turned to his son and started shaking him.

They got rescued. “The rescuers said that they had been performing these kinds of rescues, but no one had ever been rescued by a message in a bottle,” Newman said.

1. Why was this year different?

A．The waterfall was more dangerous.

B．The weather conditions were as usual.

C．The canyon became extremely narrow.

D．The family lost control of the small boat.

2. What does the underlined word “tossing” in Paragraph 2mean?

A．Putting.

B．Rowing.

C．Hanging.

D．Throwing.

3. What can we infer from Newman’s words in the last paragraph?

A．Newman was proud of himself.

B．One of the rescuers found the bottle.

C．The rescuers were quite experienced.

D．Newman’s way of seeking help was rare.

4. What’s the text mainly about?

A．A smart father.	B．An impossible try.
C．A rescue from a bottle.	D．An adventure in a canyon.