Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1 of his life. Church towers，seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains，anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”
So the news of his marriage gave me a   2 . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3 . Well，Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4 it. I  5 whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6 .
She was French perhaps--from that place   7 he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix，wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French，from a mountaineering family. No  8 . No other explanation.
A month later I met them  9 in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10．
“I have   11 climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12 , and I’ve got mine. No   13 ”. “None at all，”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14 ?” I askeD．Somewhere far  15 theatres and mountains，was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16 !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17 the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18 of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19 , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20 we took one day.”
1． A．purpose                B．love                  C．answer                  D．even
2． A．joy                       B．thought              C．lesson                   D．shock
3． A．mountains             B．churches            C．faces                    D．girls
4． A．accept                  B．understand         C．bear                     D．tell
5． A．believed               B．knew                 C．wondered              D．realized
6． A．jobs                     B．words                C．adventures            D．deeds
7． A．where                   B．when                 C．which                   D．how
8． A．one                      B．reason               C．sign                      D．doubt
9． A．all                    B．two                   C．both                     D．double
10．A．family　             B．mountain           C．theatre                  D．holiday
11．A．ever                    B．even                  C．never                    D．almost
12．A．interests               B．life                    C．room                    D．car
13．A．wonder            B．way                   C．time                     D．problems
14．A．days                    B．honeymoon        C．childhood             D．rest of life
15．A．away                   B．as                      C．by                        D．from
16．A．show                   B．sight                  C．scene                    D．game
17．A．miss                    B．escape               C．break                    D．forget
18．A．position               B．face                   C．point                    D．line
19．A．programme          B．progress             C．fun                       D．invention
20．A．photographs         B．roles                  C．sports                   D．pains