fill a suitable word into eachol numbered blanks in the pasage Australia í a big country,but nearly all Australians (1)..... in towns near the sea. On hot summer days you (2).... see thousands of people at the beach. Many beaches have waves that are very high. These large waves (3).... known as surfs and the people who ride them are called surfers. Surfing is a skill and needs learning . Don't expect to be (4)... to surf properly the first time you try. However by practicing a few times you will learn (5)... to do it. Surfing isn't a new sport. Perhaps (6)... origins need explaining. It started hundreds of years ago in Hawai. Men swam out to sea to catch fish and found that they could come back to land very (7)... by riding waves. These first surfers didn't use a (8).... They were ''body surfers''. Many people still do this type of surfing today. After a while people started to use boards and rode the waves by lying, kneeing or standing (9)..... them. These first surfboards were made of wood and the water made them rot after a (10)..... Today surfboards are made of plastic or fiberglass instead.