Question

Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, winter skating or skiing in winter. It may be a game of some kind, football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering（爬山）.

Those who have a passion（热情）for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different thing that it would be dangerous to ignore（忽视），but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no“matches”between“teams”of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than men. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities

A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of efforts and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

Mountaineering involves       .

A．cold B．hardship C．physical risk    D．all of the above

The difference between a sport and a game has something to do with the kind of        .

A. activity B. rules    C. uniform  D. participants

Mountaineering can be called a team sport because       .

A．it is an Olympic event

B．teams compete against each other

C．mountaineers depend on each other while climbing

D．there are 5 climbers on each team.

Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Mountaineering Is Different from Golf and Football k

B．Mountaineering Is More Attractive than Other Sports

C．Mountaineering

D．Mountain Climbers      

Answer 1

【小题1】D

【小题2】B

【小题3】C

【小题4】C

解析:

【小题1】从第二段“Those who have a passion（热情）for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains?”中可以看出，爬上是一项既要忍受寒冷，艰辛同时又要冒险的运动。

【小题2】从第三段中可以看出运动与比赛的主要区别就在于rules。

【小题3】从第四段最后一句“There are, it is true, no“matches”between“teams”of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.”中，我们可以得出答案。

【小题4】文章第一段就点出了本文主要意思，是关于爬上运动。以后的阐述也都是围绕这一中心来进行的，所以答案C最符合题意。