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Ⅰ.完形填空 It was late in the afternoon. Several hundred villagers left their houses and gathered in the open air outside the village. They were staring __1__ at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with __2__ —beautiful and dangerous. The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had __3__ the top, using the southern route. But no one had ever dared to try a winter climbing up the __4__ side. But now one man was daring to try the __5__ route. He was Walter Bonatti, a great mountain climber from Italy. For two days he had climbed.The village people had watched him __6__. Now they were waiting to see his __7__. If he planned to __8__ the next day, he would light a green signal. A red light would mean that he was __9__. A tiny green light __10__ high on the mountain side. Bonatti was not giving up! The people __11__. The next day he continued his way upward.He was so lonely and so __12__！ But he would not give up. Again that night he lit the __13__ light. In the morning, Bonatti __14__. He could not see the top, but he knew he was __15__ there. Though the climb was painful, he moved up. Bonatti had spent months __16__ for the climb.Was the training enough? Did he have the strength and __17__ to climb to the top? He was finally at the top! News about his __18__ was radioed to the world. | 
