Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some -1- --- football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for -2- high and difficult mountains are often -3- with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to -4- cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, -5-, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to -6- men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and -7- a game. There are no man-made rules, -8- there are for such games as golf and football. There, -9-, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to -10-, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering -11- to many people. Those who climb mountains are -12- to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering and other more -13- sports, we might think that one big difference is that -14- is not a "team game". We should be mistaken -15- this. There are, it is true, no "matches" between "team" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face -16- by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is -17- teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may -18- fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of -19-. His sport requires high mental and physical -20-.
1. [A] part [B] sorts [C] sport [D] kind
2. [A] climbing [B] rising [C] going [D] enjoying
3. [A] dealt[B] looked upon [C] coped [D] disgusted
4. [A] catch[B] diverse [C] suffer [D] overcome
5. [A] probably [B] precisely [C] logically [D] strongly
6. [A] that [B] how [C] which [D] why
7. [A] but [B] not [C] also [D] is
8. [A] as [B] such as [C] i.e. [D] possibly
9. [A] for example [B] perhaps [C] then [D] of course
10. [A] behave [B] imply [C] ignore [D] list
11. [A] luxurious [B] painful [C] attractive [D] noticeable
12. [A] occasional [B] free [C] accustomed [D] popular
13. [A] familiar [B] similar [C] regular [D] thirty
14. [A] sport [B] astonishment [C] rule [D] mountaineering
15. [A] by [B] in [C] from [D] against
16. [A] admitted [B] tracked [C] vanished [D] linked
17. [A] obviously [B] basically [C] already [D] conversely
18. [A] would [B] have to [C] due to [D] be to
19. [A] mountain [B] wind [C] nature [D] snow
20. [A] limitation [B] division [C] goodness [D] qualities |
