Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the __1__ of his life. Church towers,seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains,anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”
So the news of his marriage gave me a __2__ . I‘d never known him to take much interest in __3__ . Well,Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't __4__ it. I __5__ whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky __6__ .
She was French perhaps--from that place __7__ he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix,wasn‘t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French,from a mountaineering family. No __8__ . No other explanation.
A month later I met them __9__ in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the __10__.
“I have __11__ climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his __12__ , and I‘ve got mine. No __13__ ”. “None at all,”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your __14__ ?” I askeD.Somewhere far __15__ theatres and mountains,was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful __16__ !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to __17__ the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north __18__ of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great __19__ , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I‘ll show you the __20__ we took one day.”
1.[单选题]________- A.mountains
- B.churches
- C.faces
- D.girls
2.[单选题]________- A.miss
- B.escape
- C.break
- D.forget
3.[单选题]_________- A.jobs
- B.words
- C.adventures
- D.deeds
4.[单选题]________- A.joy
- B.thought
- C.lesson
- D.shock
5.[单选题]________- A.where
- B.when
- C.which
- D.how
8.[单选题]________- A.days
- B.honeymoon
- C.childhood
- D.rest of life
9.[单选题]________- A.one
- B.reason
- C.sign
- D.doubt
10.[单选题]________- A.wonder
- B.way
- C.time
- D.problems
11.[单选题]________- A.program
- B.progress
- C.fun
- D.invention
12.[单选题]________- A.position
- B.face
- C.point
- D.line
13.[单选题]________- A.accept
- B.understand
- C.bear
- D.tell
14.[单选题]________- A.interests
- B.life
- C.room
- D.car
15.[单选题]________- A.purpose
- B.love
- C.answer
- D.even
16.[单选题]________- A.believed
- B.knew
- C.wondered
- D.realized
17.[单选题]________- A.photographs
- B.roles
- C.sports
- D.pains
18.[单选题]________- A.show
- B.sight
- C.scene
- D.game
19.[单选题]________- A.ever
- B.even
- C.never
- D.almost
20.[单选题]________- A.family
- B.mountain
- C.theatre
- D.holiday
参考答案: D,A,C,D,A,C,D,B,D,D,C,B,B,A,B,C,A,A,C,C