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) .