My father and I used to climb the mountains near my house. In Korea（韩国） there are more mountains than plains（平原）. For this reason, climbing has been a very   1   thing for me since I was a kid.

Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations and   2   them I learned a lot. In fact, without mountaineering, Dad couldn't have had enough time to   3   with me because he was very   4  himself.  So I believe mountaineering gave me time to talk with him and to be in deep thought as well as to develop my patience（耐心）. I   5   to be able to do what I   6   do for a longer time.

Once we climbed Palgoly Mountain. It was very   7   for me because I was only ten years old. At first, I felt very   8  . But soon I had. pain（疼） in   9  of my legs, so I wanted to give up   10   My father said, "  11   is a season when everything comes to life again. The mountain and the field where we are standing are beautiful. You can   12   see a beautiful sky at the   13   of the mountain, but you can't see it before you   14   the top. You can always enjoy a lot of beautiful scenery at the top,  but you can't when you are halfway（中途） up."

At that time, I was   15   young to understand his words, but now I get it. And I also have new hope and confidence.

1. A. strange                 B. unforgettable（不可忘记）C. natural             D. sad

2. A. among                  B. through                          C. during             D. on

3. A. waste                        B. take                             C. cost                D. spend

4. A. free                  B. busy                            C. happy              D. angry

5. A. had                   B. grew                            C. played            D. saved

6. A. should                 B. might                            C. ought（应当） D. would

7. A. easy                 B. interesting                    C. excited        D. challenging

8. A. happy                 B. annoyed                        C. worried          D. sad

9. A. neither                       B. both                           C. some              D. several

10. A. climb                B. climbing                        C. run                D. running

11. A. Spring               B. Summer                        C. Autumn           D. Winter

12. A. never                B. always                          C. hardly              D. ever

13. A. foot                 B. side                             C. top                D. bottom

14. A. arrive               B. get                             C. reach               D. go

15. A. so                  B. enough                          C. such               D. too

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage.

　　Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire 1 out in your house, you 2 call the fire department. If somebody were sick, you could not call a doctor.　　In our daily life, we 3 to communicate with one another. We do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to what they say to us, and when we are 4 with them, we can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we 5 , and it is thanks to the

6 of the telephone that we are still able to communicate with each other and hold talks when we are apart. We can hear each other clearly as if we were in the same room.

(1) A．set	B．broke		C．took		D．put
(2) A．shouldn't	B．should		C．couldn't		D．could
(3) A．ought	B．dare		C．had better		D．need
(4) A．close	B．friendly		C．talking		D．listening
(5) A．say	B．call		C．shout		D．laugh
(6) A．discovery		B．invention	C．improvement	D．experiment

--________is very important. We students should keep ________.

--You’re right. First, we ought to eat ________. You know, ________ food can benefit our bodies and ________.

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A．Health, healthy, healthily, healthy, health

B．Healthy, health, healthily, healthy, health

C．Health, healthy, health, health, healthy