Question

You are going to read an article about a young person who is a mountaineer. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (9-15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
On Top of the World
21-year-old Suzie Richards recently became one of the youngest people to climb the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. She tells our reporter all about it.
I'm lucky enough to have come from a family of mountaineers, so I have been climbing for as long as I can remember, really. But it's particularly thanks to my father that I started tackling serious peaks at such a young age. When I was twelve years old, we travelled together to Alaska to climb Mount Denali, which at 6,194 metres is the highest peak in North America.
The following year, I joined a youth expedition to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
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went on to climb peaks in Australia, Argentina and Russia, each time with a different team. Sometimes the difficulty was in getting a visa to enter a particular country, most times it was in finding sponsors willing to help fund my trip.
In December of the year I turned 19, I headed out to Mount Vinson in the Antarctic. This turned out to be the most challenging expedition I had done so far. First there was the long, arduous journey down to the 'frozen continent'. We took a flight to Southern Chile and then caught a cargo plane on to the Antarctic, with no heating, real seats or windows.
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Still, it was an indescribable
experience. The colours of the ice, air and sky there are so pure without the pollution we have got so used to everywhere else.
By this time, I had gained a lot of experience and felt I was ready for 'the big one', Mount Everest.
Everest stands at 8,848 metres high and is not only the highest mountain on Earth but possibly the most unforgiving, too.
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We set about making
our own preparations, moving our gear up the mountain in stages and burying supplies at regular intervals for later use.
Throughout most of the climb itself, visibility was down to literally a few metres.
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We then
had a heart-stopping wait to see if any large chunks of ice were going to fall and crush us or if a crevasse was going to open up and swallow us.
The cold is different to what you might expect.
Because of the lack of moisture at such high altitude, you can touch the snow without your hands getting wet. Altitude is a major consideration when you're climbing.
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However, despite the
extra calories you're burning, you lose your appetite considerably. But this is just as well, as most of the food is boil-in-the-bag!
Mountaineering isn't for the faint-hearted.
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Obviously it's also important to maintain a high level of physical fitness. I run and cycle to build up endurance and stamina and as each new mountain challenge approaches I increase my training to include long walks carrying a heavy bag.
Since returning from Everest I've been giving a series of talks and presentations on my expeditions.
I hope more than anything that they will inspire other young people to follow their dreams whatever the cost.
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But I never doubted what I was
doing. I truly believed that one day I was going to stand on the top of the world!

A When we arrived at the base camp, which itself stands at around 5,600 metres, around one hundred other climbers were there preparing for their shot at the mountain, too.
B You have to discipline yourself mentally to keep going in very harsh conditions.
C The fact that there's a lot less oxygen means that you need a lot more energy than you would normally.
D There's no doubt that mountaineering is extremely challenging, but that's one of the reasons why I like it so much.
E From there, things began to get more tricky.
F During the Everest expedition, I worked out that I had taken 68 flights along my journey to reach the seven summits.
G One of the scariest moments was when we suddenly heard some loud cracking noises and felt the side of the mountain shake under us.
H Then during the actual climb I got frozen
hands and was in a lot of pain.

Answer 1

Ответ:

Certainly, here are the fitting sentences:

9. F) During the Everest expedition, I worked out that I had taken 68 flights along my journey to reach the seven summits.

10. E) From there, things began to get more tricky.

11. A) When we arrived at the base camp, which itself stands at around 5,600 metres, around one hundred other climbers were there preparing for their shot at the mountain, too.

12. G) One of the scariest moments was when we suddenly heard some loud cracking noises and felt the side of the mountain shake under us.

13. C) The fact that there's a lot less oxygen means that you need a lot more energy than you would normally.

14. B) You have to discipline yourself mentally to keep going in very harsh conditions.

15. H) Then during the actual climb I got frozen hands and was in a lot of pain.