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Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some (26) --football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering. Those who have a passion (27) climbing high and difficult mountains are often (28) with astonishment.Why are men and women willing to (29) cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains This astonishment is caused, however, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity (30) men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, (31) there are for such games as golf and football. There are, (32) , rules of a different kind which would be dangerous to (33) , but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering (34) to many people. Those who climb mountains are (35) to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more (36) sports,we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a ’team game’. We should be mistaken (37) this. There are, it is true, no ’matches’ between ’teams’ of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face (38) by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is (39) team work. The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of (40) . His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.

A. occasional
B. accustomed
C. free
D. popular

Conversation 2M: Come on, Jane. It’ s time to go.W: Wait a minute. I just have to close up the shop.M: Ok.W: Listen, can we give my sister a ride home tonightM: Sure. You mean Helen’s coming to the gameW: Yeah, she wants to take some pictures. She’ s really interested in photography.M: Oh Does she want to be a photographerW: Huh-huh. She’ d like to work for a newspaper.M: That sounds like an interesting job.W: I think so, too, But a lot of people want to be photographers. There’s so much competition.M: I know what you mean there s a lot of competition in sports, too. I wanted to be a professional soccer player, but now I work in a bank.W: Well, you’ ve got to eat. What does the man do for a living()

A. He is a car salesman.
B. He is a bank clerk.
C. He is a sportsman.
D. He is a newspaper reporter.

Keith Chiwick thinks he has the answer to this problem. "I have got a machine which talks in different languages. I feel that I could go to any country in the world and converse with any foreigner," he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic machine which produces phrases in four different languages, French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase books, this machine has a voice. It looks like a cassette recorder.Imagine you want to say, "What time is the next train for Munich" in German. First, you find the right card for that question. Each card has four strips of tape on it, one for each language. The cards are small, seven by nine centimeters, and each one can store up to two hundred and forty words. You run a pickup head along the tape and—hey presto! —a voice comes out of the amplifier, asking the question. The person at the information desk may get a surprise, but you will get your answer!Keith hopes that an electronics company will buy his idea and develop it commercially to sell it to tourists. Meanwhile, he’ s working on more new ideas. "It’ s really just a hobby for me. Some people like playing golf or bingo, but I like making new things. " he said. Why do some people give up trying to learn a foreign language()

A. Because they can use Keith’ s machine now.
Because it is like hard work.
C. Because they have difficulties to go abroad.
D. Because they cannot communicate with foreigners.

Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. The rebels have done all the following EXCEPT ______ .

A. destroying two electricity towers
B. contacting a Mexico City newspaper
C. threatening to take action in the capital
D. strengthening security at the airport

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