单选题
Most young people enjoy physical activities, walking, cycling, football, or mountaineering.
These who have a passion
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climbing high and difficult mountains are often
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with astonishment. Why are men and women
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to suffer cold and hardship, and to
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on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activities
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which men give their leisure.
There are no man-made rules, as there are for
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as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kinds which it would be dangerous to
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, but it is this freedom from man-made rules
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makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to their own
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.
If we
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mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is
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mountaineering is not a "team work". However, it is only our misunderstanding. There are, in fact, no matches"
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"teams" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may
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, obviously, there is teamwork.
A mountain climber knows that he may have to fight with natural
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that ate stronger and more powerful than man. His sport requires high mental and
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qualities.
A mountain climber
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to improve on skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions
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in their early twenties. But it is not
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for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more
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than younger men, but they probably climb more skill and less
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of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】have a passion for sth“对……有强烈的感情、爱好”
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】look up to“仰慕、尊敬某人”，look forward“期盼，盼望”，look into“调查”，look upon“把……看作，把……视为”