用括号中单词的适当形式填空。
Japanese
woman—Junko Tabei
Mount Qomolangma is the highest mountain in
the world. It is in the Himalaya(喜马拉雅)Mountains
between Nepal(尼泊尔)and China, and it is about 8, 844
meters high. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal
were the first people ever{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(climb)Mount
Everest in 1953. Men from several different countries climbed it after that.
Junko Tabei, a Japanese, was the first
woman{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(make)this
difficult climb. A Japanese newspaper-television company{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(choose)fifteen women from mountaineering
clubs to climb Mount Qomolangma in 1975. The group climbed for several days.
Then there was an accident. The heavy ice and snow{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(hurt)ten of the women. They had to stop
climbing. The other five went on climbing.
Only
Ms. Tabei was able to climb the last 70 meters. She{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(stand)on the top of the world. She was
the first woman there. Ms. Tabei was 35 years old at that time. She started
climbing mountains in 1960. She still climbs mountains now. She is not an
ordinary{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(Japan)housewife.
Ms. Tabei makes money for her trips by{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(teach)English and piano to children. She
climbs a mountain about every three years. She has climbed some of{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(high)mountains in six countries. Finally,
she wants to climb the highest mountain in every country in the world. When she
reaches the top of a mountain, she thinks, "I'm glad that I'm at the
top."
