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Rescue in a Bottle
Curtis Whitson had rafted down the Arroyo Seco,
a river in central California, several times before.
This year, Curtis Whitson knew the
water-fall was coming. He figured he would get out of his raft into the shallow
water, get down the rocks along ropes on either side of the falls, and
continue on his way, as he had on a previous trip.
But this year was different. Heavy snow and
spring rains had turned the usually manageable falls into something fierce.
And this year, instead of his friends, Whitson's companions were his
girlfriend, Krystal Ramirez and his 13-year-old son, Hunter. As the three of
them approached the falls late in, the afternoon of the third day of their
camping trip, Whitson could tell from the increasing roar of water in the
narrowing canyon (峡谷) that they were in serious
trouble. There was no way they'd be able to get down the rocks as planned.
"The water was just roaring through
there with tremendous force," recalls Whitson, 45.
They had no smart phone service, and they hadn't
seen a single person in the past three days. And Whitson knew that they'd be
sharing the ground there with rattlesnakes and mountain lions.
As he was thinking what to do, Whitson hit on a
bit of luck — he heard voices coming from the other side of the falls. He yelled,
but the sound of the rushing water drowned him out.
"We have to get these people a message,"
Whitson thought.
He grabbed a stick and pulled out his
pocketknife to carve "Help" in it. Then he tied a rope to it so the
people would know it wasn't just any stick. He tried throwing it over the
falls, but it floated away in the wrong direction.
"We've got to do something!" Whitson
yelled to his son. "Have we got anything else?"
Then he spotted his water bottle. Whitson
grabbed it and carved "Help!" on it. Ramirez also reminded him that
he had a pen and paper in his backpack.
Whitson knew it was a slim hope. But he wrote "6-15
19:00 We are stuck here@ the waterfall. Get help please" and pushed the
note into the bottle. This time, his throw over the waterfall was perfect.
"All right, that's all we can do,"
Whitson told Hunter.
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Paragraph 1:
It took 30 minutes to get back upstream to the
beach where they'd had lunch.
Paragraph 2:
The next morning, the helicopter returned.
答案:Paragraph 1: It took 30 minutes to get back upstream to the beach where they'd had lunch. They made a fire to keep the rattlesnakes and mountain lions away. Just after midnight, they heard a helicopter hovering above them. Whitson ran over to the headlamp, yelled and started flashing it at the helicopter. Then the helicopter found them. The helicopter circled as the pilot looked for a good place to land. Finding none, the crew announced to the campers over the PA system that they would not be rescued until morning and told them to conserve their firewood. Paragraph 2: The next morning, the helicopter returned. The family were rescued and learned more about the details: Two men had seen the water bottle in the water, found the message in it, and turned the bottle in, and took off without leaving their names. A few days later, Whitson learned the rest of the story. There were actually two little girls hiking with the men that day. It was the girls who first spotted the bottle and swam to get it. Whitson is planning on having a big barbecue to meet the hikers — and thank them.