4. 　Which of the following shows the right order of what happened?

a. He topped Mount McKinley.

b. He became blind.

c. He challenged Mount Everest.

d. He reached the peak of Kilimanjaro.

e. He climbed the rock wall of EI Capitan.

A. b, e, d, c, a　 　 　B. b, a, e, d, c　　　　 　 　C. a, b, e, d, c　　 　 　D. b, d, a, c, d

B

“BEST PRODUCT WE'VE EVER SEEN”－THIS REALLY WORKS－ON SALE NOW Need to lower your cholesterol(胆固醇)？We strongly recommend CholestrolblockTM. This really works, and now is the best time to buy，because of a special offer for the first 250 customers only for a limited time. 　　 * Takes cholesterol out of food，no matter what you eat. 　　 * Clinically demonstrated effective in university and hospital testing． 　　 * Lowers cholesterol absorption up to 42% or more． * “NO SIDE EFFECTS unlike Liptor®, Zocor®，Crests®＆other commonly prescribed(处方的) medications－safe and effective. 　　 * “Outsells all other brands on Internet every month. LIMITED TIME ONLY一Try Cholesterol Watchers free with purchase.

3. 　What is Erik’s special method for climbing a mountain?

A. He takes his girlfriend with him.　　　　B. He does his share of the jobs.

C. He uses two long poles to help himself.　　 D. He keeps a good team around him.

2. 　What was unusual about his wedding?

　　　　 A. He got married on the summit of Mount McKinley.

B. He got married when climbing Mount Everest.

　　　　 C. .His wedding was held after he prepared a lot.

D. His wedding was held at 13,000 feet above sea level.

1. 　When was Erik born?

　　　　 A. In 1968.　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. In 1995.　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. In 1967.　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. In 1969.

10. The writer provides two book lists to ________.

　 A. show how he developed his point of view

　 B. tell his reading experience at high school

C. introduce the two persons' reading methods

　 D. explain that he read many books at high school

　 第28天　　　　　　　　　　　　 A

　　　　 Erik Weihenmayer was born with an eye disorder. As a child his eyesight became worse and then, at the age of 13, he lost his sight completely. However, he did not lose his determination to lead a full and active life.

　　　　 Erik became an adventurer. He took up parachuting, wrestling and scuba diving. He competed in long-distance biking, marathons and skiing. His favorite sport, thought, is mountaineering.

　　　　 As a young man, Erik started to climb mountains. He reached the summit of Mount McKinley in 1995 and then climbed the dangerous 1000-metre rock wall of EI Capitan. Two years later, while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya with his girlfriend, they stopped for a time at 13,000 feet above sea level－in order to get married. In 1999, he climbed Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in South America. And then , on May 25, 2001, at the age of 33, Erik successfully completed the greatest mountaineering challenge of all. He climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

　　　　 Erik invented his own method for climbing mountains. He carries two long poles: one to lean on and the other to test the way ahead of him. The climber in front of him wears a bell to guide him. Erik is a good team member. He does his share of the job, such as setting up tents and building snow walls.

　　　　 Although he could not enjoy the view, Erik felt the excitement of being on the summit of Everest. He hopes that his success will change how people think about the blind. “When people think about a blind person or blindness, now they will think about a person standing on top of the world.”　

9. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to________.

　 A. explain why it was included in the list

　 B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

　 C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

　 D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

8. The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means

　 A. firmly　　 　 B. clearly　　　　　　　　　　 C. proudly　　 　　　 D. pleasantly

7. While at high school, the writer________.

　 A. had plans for reading　　 　　　　　　　　　　 B. learned to educate himself

　 C. only read books over 100 pages　　 D. read only one book several times

6. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought________.

A. one must read as many books as possible

　 B. a student should not have a complicated idea

　 C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

　 D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

B

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated (复杂的) idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. ( How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. ( Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization. " "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality , " these books have made me all that I am . " That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore (忽视). I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.