Test Five Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity.It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing.It may be a game of some 1 -football, hockey, golf or tennis.It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for 2 high and difficult mountains are often 3 with astonishment.Why are men and women willing to 4 cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused,5, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to6 men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and 7a game.There are no man-made rules 8 there are for such games as golf and football.There are,9, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to 10but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering 11 to many people.Those who climb mountains are 12 to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering and other more 13 sports, we might think that one big difference is that14 is not a "team game".We should be mistaken 15 this.There are, it is true, no "matches" between "team" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face 16 by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is 17 teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may 18 fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man.He has to fight the forces of 19.His sport requires high mental and physical 20.
1.A) part B) sorts C) sport D) kind
2.A) climbing B) rising C) going D) enjoying
3.A) dealt B) looked upon C) coped D) disgusted
4.A) catch B) diverse C) suffer D) overcome
5.A) probably B) precisely C) logically D) strongly
6.A) that B) how C) which D) why
7.A) but B) not C) also D) is
8.A) as B) such as C) i.e. D) possibly
9.A) for example B) perhaps C) then D) of course
10.A) behave B) imply C) ignore D) list
11.A) luxurious B) painful C) attractive D) noticeable
12.A) occasional B) free C) accustomed D) popular
13.A) familiar B) similar C) regular D) thirty
14.A) sport B) astonishment C) rule D) mountaineering
15.A) by B) in C) from D) against
16.A) admitted B) tracked C) vanished D) linked
17.A) obviously B) basically C) already D) conversely
18.A) would B) have to C) due to D) be to
19.A) mountain B) wind C) nature D) snow
20.A) limitation B) division C) goodness D) qualities
Key to Test Five 1.D 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.C 7.B 8.A 9.D 10.C
11.C 12.B 13.A 14.D 15.B 16.D 17.A 18.B 19.C 20.D