Here’s the story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r    (1)  in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l    (2) , but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact（实际上), he could swim before he could walk . When he wants to play with his f    (3) , he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v    (4)  him.
Ming’s father is a fisherman but he never u    (5)   a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants（鸬鹚）do the fishing for him. Rings （圈） have been put around the birds’ n    (6)  so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b    (7)  the fish to people. And then people reward （奖励） them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f    (8)  . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s    (9)  with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o    (10) .