2 . Though Armenia isn’t exactly ready for groups of foreign hikers, the country rewards those who make the effort. When my son recently finished graduate school, I seized the_________to spend a week hiking_________him in my own father’s homeland. Not long ago, no outsider would have considered such a_________through the former Soviet Republic. But we_________the paths with hikers from Australia, Canada, England and France,_________we left hoping to return.
Armenia isn’t for every_________. “You often will not find marked trail heads, and if you find a map, it will_________be written in Armenian — which doesn’t_________the Latin alphabet.” We couldn’t find a guide until we arrived in the country, and then we had to_________. After spending a day in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, we visited the Dilijan National park. In the forested national park, we__________, the ruins of a 1,000-year-old monastery (修道院)__________in a mountain top clearing. That__________me of the people who hiked to the site to__________when it was built. “It seemed such a very different__________from driving to a church parking lot these days.”
Marc and I never did reach the summit (山顶) of Aragats, Armenia’s__________mountain. That would have__________the climbers to cover 6,000 feet in one day. and when a storm__________, we settled on the mountain’s secondary peak.__________so, “we weren’t disappointed.” A mountain doesn’t always__________to a climber’s first attempt, and a country doesn’t reveal all its treasures in a week. Our adventure, we know, had “only scratched the__________.”
1. A.control | B.power | C.opportunity | D.initiative |
2. A.without | B.for | C.about | D.with |
3. A.chance | B.trip | C.job | D.moment |
4. A.crossed | B.made | C.blocked | D.searched |
5. 6. A.adventurer | B.cyclist | C.climber | D.foreigner |
7. A.strictly | B.hardly | C.probably | D.mainly |
8. A.use | B.take | C.adapt | D.master |
9. A.go around | B.look around | C.gather around | D.ask around |
10. A.came up | B.came across | C.came over | D.came about |
11. A.waiting | B.sleeping | C.sitting | D.waving |
12. A.cured | B.reminded | C.warned | D.robbed |
13. A.pray | B.live | C.study | D.survey |
14. A.life | B.experience | C.account | D.custom |
15. A.steepest | B.highest | C.shortest | D.largest |
16. A.forced | B.enabled | C.caused | D.required |
17. A.signaled | B.promised | C.passed | D.threatened |
18. A.Quite | B.Yet | C.Even | D.Still |
19. A.give up | B.give away | C.give in | D.give out |
20. A.surface | B.line | C.site | D.spot |