He said there ________ a discussion on population growth this afternoon.

用方框内所给词的适当形式填空，使短文意思完成、正确。（每小题1分）

loud, speech, on, beat, fail, hero, away, because, warm, hand

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest.    66   May 29, 1953，he climbed and measured the highest mountain——29,000 feet straight up. People were proud of his efforts when he came back. However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.
In 1952, he tried to climb Mount Everest, but    67  . A few weeks later, a group in England asked him to give a    68   to its members. Hillary was given a    69   welcome when walking on stage. People there thought him as a    71  , but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure (失败). He moved    72   from the microphone (麦克风) and walked to the side of the stage.
He lifted one    72   and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a    73   voice, “Mount Everest, you    74   me the first time, but I’ll beat you the next time    75   you’ve grown all you are going to grow, but I'm still growing!”

While I was waiting to go into university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I   16 . Because I was in great need of   17  and wanted to do something useful, I applied(申请).
Three days later, a letter   18 . It asked me to see the   19  at Croydon. It proved to be a(n)   20  journey —a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of   21  a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. Clearly, the principal   22  opened the door. He was   23  and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the   24  except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into  25  groups and teach them at three different   26 , and I was not    27  at the thought of teaching maths —a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was   28  that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon   29  most of my friends would be   30  themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary(薪水), he got up to his feet. “Now,” he said. “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”

【小题1】

A．lived B．played C．studied D．worked

【小题2】

A．help B．money C．rest D．force

【小题3】

A．arrived B．received C．returned D．wrote

【小题4】

A．editor B．teacher C．principal D．student

【小题5】

A．comfortable B．easy C．short D．unpleasant

【小题6】

A．at least B．at first C．at last D．at most

【小题7】

A．herself B．themselves C．itself D．himself

【小题8】

A．bad B．glad C．short D．smiling

【小题9】

A．people B．subjects C．boys D．knowledge

【小题10】

A．two B．three C．four D．five

【小题11】

A．subjects B．lessons C．levels D．schools

【小题12】

A．glad B．surprised C．angry D．sad

【小题13】

A．better B．more exciting C．worse D．nicer

【小题14】

A．until B．after C．if D．because

【小题15】

A．enjoying B．helping C．studying D．arguing