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05级英语专业TEM4阅读理解每周一练

TEST one and KEY

TEST two and KEY

本周末因学校开大会 TEST3 下周发布（12月17日）

艰难登顶
珠穆朗玛峰对于全世界数百万人来说，长期以来有着巨大的吸引力。在证服珠穆朗玛峰的过程中，许多人冒了巨大的危险，而且失去了生命。然而，现代探险者对早年遭到厄运的攀登者的最终命运，表现出越来越浓厚的兴趣。
据说，当乔治·马罗礼被问及他为何要攀登珠峰时，他这样回答，”因为有珠峰“。他是惟一参加20世纪20年代英国组织的所有三次征服珠峰活动的探险家。他对珠峰怀有强烈的情感，一直神往登上山顶。”它是一座魔鬼般的大山冷峻而且反复无常，”他在珠峰大本营给家人写信时有一次这样写道。”冒的险实在太大；人们攀登峰顶时可使的力气又是这么小。也许只是发疯了才再次攀登。可是我怎能摆脱这种诱惑呢？

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Handout of Unit Five: It’s tough at the Top

Part One: Background

1. Chomolungma or Qomolangma [("Mother of the Universe)]
Everest, Mount, peak, 29,035 ft (8,850 m) high, on the border of Tibet and Nepal, in the central Himalayas. It is the highest elevation in the world. Called Chomo-Lungma [Mother Goddess of the Land] by Tibetans, it is named in English for the surveyor Sir George Everest.It was first climbed on May 28, 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the summit. The body of George H. L. Mallory, who died in an earlier/fisrt attempt (1924), was found on the mountain in 1999.

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Handout of Unit Four: Seeking a Steady Arm to Lean onPart One: Appendix to Text I

1. Baby boom
A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. Persons born during such a period are often called baby boomers. Many such instances have been recorded in human history and are often caused by uplifting factors such as good harvests, victories in sport or war, or just due to superstition. Some contest the general conventional wisdom that baby booms signify good times and periods of general economic growth and stability, but this is a controversial position that ignores much of the well-documented historical record from the 1500s to present.

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寻找可以依靠的坚实手臂
简·格罗斯
在美国，越来越多的老人独居。他们生病时处境通常显得很悲惨。简·格罗斯在下面的文章中指出这些老年人的问题。
每次人们在医生办公室给格雷斯·麦凯比递来一份紧急情况联系人表格时空格处总令她心中发休。对任何有配偶、伴侣或子女的人来说这是个很简单的问题。但是75岁的麦凯比女士一直独居。谁能和她一起渡过难关2情况最糟糕的时候谁会关心她？
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