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Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
Peter Fern was mad on mountains. Climbing was the love of his life. Church towers, seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains, anything—"if it's there" he used to say, "then I want to climb it". So the news of his marriage gave me a surprise. I'd never known him to take much interest in girls. Well, well, Peter Fern a married man. I couldn't get over it. I wondered whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky adventures. She was French perhaps—from that place where he usually spent his holidays. Chamonixm, wasn't it？
From Chamonix he's climbed Mont Blanc on his 17th birthday, and one of the Aifuilles the day after. That was it, then: she was French from a family, most of whom like climbing. No doubt. No other explanation.
A month later I met them both in town. Anna surprised me because she was English. She was a dancer in the theatre. "Never climbed more than 60 steps in my life". She told me. "Peter has his interests, and I've got mine. No problems". "No problems". "None at all", Peter said, smiling. "Where did you spend your honeymoon？" "I flew to New York to see the Drake Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful show". Peter said, "I didn't want to miss the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north face of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great fun, the Eiger. Grand place a honeymoon. I'll show you the photographs we took one day".
Peter was mad on mountains. means ______.
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This remarkable man went to a log-cabin school until he was twelve years old. That was the end of his formal education. In spite of this, he became the most famous literary figure of his generation. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Yale University. People speak of him as the best known humorous writer of all times. He also brought realism and western local color to American fiction. He made millions of dollars by writing articles, short stories, and books. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain.
Mark Twain was born in a small Missouri village near the Mississippi River in 1835. At that time, Andrew Jackson was the president of the country. Abraham Lincoln was still a young farm laborer in Illinois. The first railroad had been built seven years before. The Industrial Revolution was at hand. The economic collapse of American prosperity, called the Panic of 1837, still lay ahead. This was also the literary period later called the "New England Renaissance".
Mark Twain was not a healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mother's tender care, he managed to survive. He had been born in a tiny two-room cabin. Eight people lived together there. He had four brothers and sisters. A slave girl lived with them too.
As a boy, Mark Twain caused much trouble for his parents. He used to play practical jokes on all his friends and neighbors. The nature of his jokes often led to violence. He hated to go to school, and he constantly ran away from home, He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi. He was fascinated by that mighty river. He liked to sit on the bank of the river for hours at a time and just gaze at the mysterious islands and passing boats and rafts. He was nearly drowned nine different times. He learned many things about the river during those days. He learned all about its history and the unusual people who rode up and down it. He never forgot those scenes and those people. He later made them part of the history of America in his books Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain inherited his genius for humor from his mother, Obviously, he did not inherit it from his father. He once stated that he had never seen a smile on his father's face. On the other hand, his mother had the raze ability to say humorous things with perfect innocence. This same ability made Mark Twain an extremely humorous public speaker.
After his father's death in 1847, Mark Twain left school and became a printer's apprentice. His mother felt that he could make a living and get some education in this way. He worked for the printer as an apprentice for two years. During that time he received, only his board and clothes as pay.
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Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
Recently, the events of bomb exploding were often happened in the areas of the world. Meanwhile, two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacres.
One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algiers, killing one person, and an hour later, another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Annaba, killing 3 others. The Algerians agreed to allow EU deputy foreign ministers in to discuss the situation but again, turned down any UN investigation.
What happened in Algeria Tuesday？
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