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When you picture mountain climbers scaling(攀登) Mount Everest, what probably comes to mind are teams of climbers equipped with oxygen masks, supplies and tents. And in most cases you'd be right, as 97 per cent of climbers use oxygen to ascend(登上) to Everest's summit at 8,848 metres above sea level.
But Kilian Jornet Burgada ascended the mountain in May 2017 alone, without an oxygen mask or fixed ropes for climbing.
Oh, and he did it in 26 hours.
Born in 1987, Kilian has been training for Everest his whole life. And that really does mean his whole life, as he grew up 2,000 metres above sea level in the Pyrenees in the ski resort in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. While other children his age were learning to walk, Kilian was on skis. At one and a half years old he did a five-hour hike with his mother, entirely under his own steam(精力，力气). He left his peers(同龄人) even further behind when he climbed his first mountain. By age seven, he had scaled a 4,000 metres mountain.
He was 13 when he started to take it 'seriously' and trained with the Ski Mountaineering Technical Centre in Catalonia, entering competitions and working with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training. He does as many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical workouts as well as specific training in the week before a race.
All this is thanks to his childhood in the mountains and to genetics(遗传基因), but it is his mental strength that sets him apart. He often sets himself challenges to see how long he can endure difficult conditions in order to truly understand what his body and mind can cope(处理,应对) with.
It would take a book to list all the races and awards he has won and the mountains he has climbed.
1.How many climbers don't use oxygen when they ascend to Everest's summit?
A.3%. B.18%. C.26%. D.97%.
2.The writer wants us to know ________ in Paragraph 4.
A.Kilian's birthplace is a ski resort
B.Kilian has been training for Everest for many years
C.Kilian liked climbing mountains in his early childhood
D.Kilian showed his great gift in mountain climbing when he was young
3.The underlined words sets him apart in Paragraph 6 probably means ________.
A.使他勇敢 B.使他出众 C.将他消灭 D.将他重创
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Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mt.Everest, is the world’s highest mountain. In 1960, three Chinese climbers reached the top of Qomolangma from the north side, which______ as the most challenging side of the mountain. They were the first Chinese team to ______ climb Mount Qomolangma’s north side. Fifteen years later, another Chinese expedition team climbed the ______ side again. The movie The Climbers features the two generations of Chinese mountaineers ______ climbed to the top Mount Qomolangma from the dangerous north side in 1960 and 1975.
We can learn ______ more behind the amazing moments in the movie. Wu Jing, one of the leading______ in the movie, said he experienced a bad cold and altitude sickness(高原反应) during filming in Qinghai, but he said that it was important to have ______ experience. “It is important to understand ______ difficult it was for these mountaineers and how they valued the honor to climb the highest mountain,” added Wu. In the movie, there are many moments when people feel like ______. The movie has hit the screens in cinemas across China, North America and the United Kingdom. Many people resonate(共鸣) with The Climbers ______ each one of us is actually a climber in life.
1.A.knows B.is known C.known D.know
2.A.succeed B.successful C.successfully D.success
3.A.east B.south C.west D.north
4.A.which B.who C.where D.whose
5.A.something B.nothing C.anything D.everything
6.A.drivers B.actors C.teachers D.cooks
7.A.such an B.so C.such a D./
8.A.how B.what C.why D.when
9.A.crying B.to cry C.cry D.cries
10.A.but B.so C.and D.because
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When he was 23 years old, he climbed Mount Everest. In 2007, he set another world record by flying over Mount Everest in a powered paraglider (滑翔伞). His first book, Facing the Frozen Ocean, got shortlisted for the UK’s “Sports Book of the Year”. Since then he has written more than 15 books, including the No. 1 Bestseller: Mud, Sweat and Tears.
Bear Grylls
His name is Bear Grylls, and he was the host of Discovery Channel’s famous TV show, Man vs Wild. In the show, he was left in faraway areas in order to show survival (生存的) skills. Millions of viewers watched, breathless, as he climbed terribly dangerous mountains, performed amazing ice climbing, and ran through a forest fire.
Grylls continues to shine with both his amazing shows and charity (慈善) work. And he has set up his own company, Bear Grylls’ Survival Academy, where everyone can learn survival skills from him and his highly trained team.
Recently, Grylls founded Young Survivors – training courses for teenagers, including survival skills and adventure tasks designed to teach the basic rules of outdoor survival self-rescue. Those who complete the course are given a Young Survivors Award. Skills taught include how to build and light a fire, how to tell directions in both day and night, putting up a protection building, bad weather survival and so on. The key focus of the course is getting young survivors back in touch with nature and away from technology.
In Grylls’ own words: “The thing I love about Young Survivor Course is that it is designed to put young adults in just the kind of challenging, character-building and practical situations that help consider them as adults. So often, young adults can feel almost over-protected and are stopped from experiencing some of the best things in life – but the Young Survivor Award will challenge and empower them in an unbelievable fun environment.”
1.Why was Bear left in faraway areas in his TV show?
A.To raise money for charity.
B.To show skills for surviving.
C.To do a performance for fun.
D.To create stories for his books.
2.What is the key focus of Young Survivors?
A.Using technology in nature.
B.Making young adults famous.
C.Teaching young adults living skills.
D.Getting young adults back to nature.
3.According to the passage, Bear Grylls ______.
A.helps people start writing
B.cares about the environment
C.is an encouraging adventurer
D.is a very famous businessman
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—What do you think of the mountain climbers?
— I look up to them very much. The spirit of the climbers________shows us that humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature encourages us not to give up.
A.who B.of whom C.which
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Sixty years ago， human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma， known as Mount Everest in the West. But the increase in climbers is turning the world’s highest mountain into the “world’s highest junkyard(垃圾场)”.
Every year， more than 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma. They have left human waste and all kinds of rubbish， including oxygen bottles， broken tents， and plastic bags， according to Ang Tshering Sherpa， chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
“The waste has become a health danger to people in the area since they depend on water from rivers fed by the melting glaciers(融化的冰川)，” Sherpa said.
More and more people have realized the danger that Mount Qomolangma is facing and they are now taking active actions. To deal with the problem， Nepal has supported a special team of explorers and volunteers to clean the mountain since 2008. So far they have brought down 15，000kg of rubbish. Nepal also started to ask each climber to bring down 8 kg of rubbish in 2014.
On the Chinese side of the mountain， Tibet(西藏) will collect a cleaning fee of $100-200 (620-1240 yuan) per climber starting from this year. A program named “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” also started in 2004 to clear up the mountain.
Hopefully， human beings will finally solve the problem， just as they found the way up the mountain successfully.
1.Which of the following was not used to call the world’s highest mountain long ago?
A. Mount Everest.
B. Mount Qomolangma.
C. The Third Pole of the Earth.
D. The world’s highest junkyard.
2.Why is the world’s highest mountain turning into the “world’s highest junkyard?
A. Tibet has not collected enough money to clear up the mountain.
B. Climbers have left too much human waste and all kinds of rubbish.
C. People in the area have no idea of how to recycle their daily rubbish.
D. 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma every year.
3.What have been done to protect the environment of Mount Qomolangma?
A. Each climber has been asked to pay for the cleaning fee of $100-200.
B. Nepal has asked each climber to bring down all the rubbish they carried there.
C. A special team of explorers and volunteers have brought down 15，000kg of rubbish.
D. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” has started in China and Nepal.
4.Which is the correct order of the following events?
a. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” started.
b. Human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma sixty years ago.
c. Nepal started a cleaning program and asked each climber to bring down rubbish.
d. The waste left by climbers has become a health danger to people in the area.
A. c -d- b -a B. b-a-d-c
C. a-b-c-d D. b-d-a-c
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Sixty years ago, human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West. But the increase in climbers is turning the world’s highest mountain into the “world’s highest junkyard(垃圾场)”.
Every year, more than 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma. They have left human waste and all kinds of rubbish, including oxygen bottles, broken tents, and plastic bags, according to Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
“The waste has become a health danger to people in the area since they depend on water from rivers fed by the melting glaciers(融化的冰川),” Sherpa said.
More and more people have realized the danger that Mount Qomolangma is facing and they are now taking active actions. To deal with the problem, Nepal has supported a special team of explorers and volunteers to clean the mountain since 2008. So far they have brought down 15,000kg of rubbish. Nepal also started to ask each climber to bring down 8 kg of rubbish in 2014.
On the Chinese side of the mountain, Tibet(西藏) will collect a cleaning fee of $100-200 (620-1240 yuan) per climber starting from this year. A program named “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” also started in 2004 to clear up the mountain.
Hopefully, human beings will finally solve the problem, just as they found the way up the mountain successfully.
1.Which of the following was not used to call the world’s highest mountain long ago?
A. Mount Everest.
B. Mount Qomolangma.
C. The Third Pole of the Earth.
D. The world’s highest junkyard.
2.Why is the world’s highest mountain turning into the “world’s highest junkyard?
A. Tibet has not collected enough money to clear up the mountain.
B. Climbers have left too much human waste and all kinds of rubbish.
C. People in the area have no idea of how to recycle their daily rubbish.
D. 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma every year.
3.What have been done to protect the environment of Mount Qomolangma?
A. Each climber has been asked to pay for the cleaning fee of $100-200.
B. Nepal has asked each climber to bring down all the rubbish they carried there.
C. A special team of explorers and volunteers have brought down 15,000kg of rubbish.
D. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” has started in China and Nepal.
4.Which is the correct order of the following events?
a. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” started.
b. Human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma sixty years ago.
c. Nepal started a cleaning program and asked each climber to bring down rubbish.
d. The waste left by climbers has become a health danger to people in the area.
A. c -d- b -a B. b-a-d-c C. a-b-c-d D. b-d-a-c
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—______ you _______ Mount Qingyuan these days?
—Yes, I have. The mountains are more beautiful.
A. Have; gone to B. Have; been in C. Have; been to
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Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing New Zealand’s highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn’t make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest.
From the top of the world’s highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn’t hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his “legs” didn’t work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools.
Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain.
“I’m not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do anything better.”
1.What was the difference between Mark and other climbers?
A. He went mountain-climbing with his wife.
B. He climbed mountains with man-made legs.
C. He was the first to climb Mount Everest.
D. He was the best guide of the world.
2.Mark’s wife thought it was ________ on Mount Everest when Mark reached its top.
A. noon B. morning C. mid-night D. evening
3.Which of the following is the correct order in Mark’s story?
a. Losing both of his legs.
b. Working as a mountain guide.
c. Falling into an ice hole on Mount Cook.
d. Reaching the top of Mount Everest.
A. c a b d B. c a d b C. b c a d D. b a c d
4.Mark’s story makes us believe that he is a _________ man.
A. polite B. brave C. kind D. clever
5.Mark told us that he cared much about __________.
A. being the first B. climbing higher C. keeping healthy D. being a guide
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Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing. New Zealand’s highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn’t make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest.
From the top of the world’s highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn’t hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his “legs” didn’t work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools.
Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain.
“I’m not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do-anything better.”
1.What was the difference between Mark and other climbers?
A. He went mountain-climbing with his wife.
B. He climbed mountains with man-made legs.
C. He was the first to climb Mount Everest.
D. He was the best guide of the world.
2.Mark’s wife thought is was ________ on Mount Everest when Mark reached its top.
A. noon B. morning C. mid-night D. evening
3.Which of the following is the correct order in Mark’s story?
a. Losing both of his legs.
b. Working as a mountain guide.
c. Falling into an ice hole on Mount Cook.
d. Reaching the top of Mount Everest.
A. c a b d B. c a d b C. b c a d D. b a c d
4. Mark’s story makes us believe that he is a _________ man.
A. polite B. brave C. kind D. clever
5. Mark told us that he cared much about __________.
A. being the first B. climbing higher C. keeping healthy D. being a guide
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Everyone has hobbies. Hobbies_________us a lot of happiness. For most of us, the activities we like to do are common and easy. However, there are_________people who like to take risks._________are more interested in doing dangerous sports, such as snowboarding, diving(潜水)and rock climbing.
Many people enjoy_________. You can do it indoors on special walls or outdoors on real mountains. There are many advantages to rock climbing-it is fun and it also helps people_________their worries.
The most important tool to have is good shoes. They need to be half a size smaller than your usual_________. The next thing you need is a harness(保护带). This allows you to move freely, _________it will hold you up if you fall. It's important to know how to use your tools. If you are a beginner, it's best to have lessons. A climber with experience can help you a lot_________you are learning to climb.
Rock climbing is very exciting for people of different ages. Climbers, however, must be careful not_________the environment. Sometimes rock climbers leave rubbish on the mountains which they climb. They should take it__________them and throw it away. This will let future climbers enjoy a clean environment.
1.A.take B.bring C.provide D.have
2.A.other B.the other C.another D.every
3.A.We B.You C.All D.They
4.A.snowboarding B.diving C.rock climbing D.swimming
5.A.remember. B.forget C.solve D.keep
6.A.size B.shape C.color D.kind
7.A.and B.but C.so D.or
8.A.before B.when C.after D.until
9.A.to protect B.to produce C.to pollute D.to save
10.A.along B.to C.for D.with
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