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Before 1921 no one had ever tried to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma, which is the ________ mountain in the world. (tall)

Creighton Carvello was called the Memory Man. He could remember hundreds of playing cards and pages of the telephone numbers in only a few seconds.

Creighton was born in India in 1944. He was the middle child of five and his father worked on the railways. In 1949, the Carvello family returned to England and settled(定居) in Middlesbrough, where Creighton spent the rest of his life. His father first noticed his great talent when, aged 7, he started to memorize information from cigarette cards with pictures of planes and cars.

After leaving school, Creighton developed his talent by memorizing more and more information. He soon became popular as he performed in clubs to show his great memory. He remembered the telephone number of anyone called Smith who lived in the Middlesbrough area. He first got into the record books in his thirties. He travelled around the world, showed up on television and amazed the audience with his memory.

Creighton was a man of many talents, including writing songs, drawing and telling jokes.

In his last years, Creightton moved to care home. The old people there would test his memory with questions such as naming what day of the week they were born on. Only days before he died, one lady gave her date of birth, July 29, 1921 and Creighton immediately replied, “Friday”. He died on November 18, 2008.

1.What was Creighton most famous for?

a.      His songs  b. His jokes  c. His drawing  d. His memory

2.How many children were older than Creighton in his family?

a.      Two  b. Three  c. Four  d. One

3.What happened when Creighton was five?

a.      He left school.  b.He first got into the record books.

c.His family returned to England. d.His father first noticed his great talent.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

a.      Creighton spent the rest of his life in India.

b.      Creighton was forced(强迫) to memorize things by his father.

c.      Creighton played the piano in clubs after leaving school.

d.      Creighton was a talented man.

5.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

a.      Creighton didn’t have a family.

b.      Creighton died young because he memorized too many things.

c.      Creighton died at the age of 60.

d.      Creighton still had a good memory several days before he died.

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George Mallory was an English school teacher who loved climbing. In 1924, Mallory and a team of British climbers tried to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma, the tallest mountain in the world. No one had ever done it before.

Mallory had already t  1.to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma in 1921 and 1922, but he had failed b  2. times. In 1924, he started to climb again. On June 8, 1924, he and another climber, Andrew Irvine, were only a few hundred metres a  3.from the top of the mountain. The other m 4.of their climbing team watched as Mallory and Irvine climbed slowly up towards the top. However, the weather was very misty, and soon the two men d  5.    into the mist（雾）. They could never r  6. .In 1953, Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, finally r 7. the top of Mount Qomolangma. Most people thought that they were the first men to do this, but some people wondered w  8. Mallory and Irvine had got there first.

Many years later, in 1999, Mallory's body was found on Mount Qomolangma, about six hundred metres from the top of it. However, it is still u9.if he and Irvine ever reached the top of the mountain.

Someone had once asked Mallory w10.he wanted to climb the most dangerous mountain in the world.

“Because it's there,” he answered.