完形填空。
As darkness fell, hundreds of people in the Swiss village left their houses. They were
staring (凝视)  1  at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with ice and snow-
beautiful and dangerous.
The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had  2  the top through
the southern route (路线). But no one  3  ever dared to try climbing up the  4  side in
winter. But now one man  5  to try the difficult route. He was Walter Bonatti, a great
mountain climber  6  Italy.
For two days he had climbed. The village people had watched him  7  . Now they were
waiting to see his  8  . If he planned to go on the next day, he would  9  a green signal.
A red light would mean that he was turning back.
A tiny green light 10 high on the mountain side. Bonatti was not giving up! The people
 11 !
The next day he continued his way upward. He was so lonely and so 12 ! But he would
not give up. Again that night he lit the 13 light.
In the morning, Bonatti 14 . He could not see the top. He knew he was 15 there. Though
the climb was painful, 16 he moved up. Bonatti had spent months 17 for the climb. Was
the training enough? Did he have the strength and skill to climb to the top?
He was finally at the top! News about his 18 was radioed to the world.
The trip 19 the southern route was easy. He was warmly welcomed in the village. He had
done the "impossible", and would be well 20 as a climber of all time.

(     )1. A. back       (     )2. A. watched   (     )3. A. was       (     )4. A. western   (     )5. A. had       (     )6. A. from       (     )7. A. patiently  (     )8. A. face       (     )9. A. raise     (     )10. A. rose       (     )11. A. cheered   (     )12. A. sleepy     (     )13. A. yellow     (     )14. A. woke up   (     )15. A. already   (     )16. A. but       (     )17. A. training   (     )18. A. succe ss    (     )19. A. along     (     )20. A. recognized

B. forward   B. passed     B. wasn't   B. eastern   B. ought     B. to         B. carefully  B. figure     B. make       B. appeared   B. laughed   B. excited   B. blue       B. turned up  B. almost     B. and       B. preparing  B. importance    B. up         B. called

C. down        C. reached    C. hadn't    C. southern    C. used        C. at          C. anxiously  C. flag        C. light      C. turned on  C. jumped      C. tired      C. green      C. got up      C. no longer  C. still      C. planning    C. climb      C. down        C. remembered

D. up              D. climbed           D. had           D. northern        D. dared           D. for             D. eagerly         D. signal          D. mark            D. turned off                        D. whispered       D. happy           D. red             D. looked up       D. surely          D. however         D. asking          D. courage         D. to              D. kept

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