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Read the text. Then choose the correct answer to question 24-26.
Mountaineering as a sport has developed since about 1857, when the Alpine Club was founded in London. Earlier, climbers did not climb for pleasure but for some scientific or monetary motive. Dr. Paccard of Chamonix was the first to scale Mont Blanc, in 1786, to show that man could live above the snow-line, but it was the lectures of Albert Smith, who climbed the peak in 1851, that kindled British interest. In 1854, Wills climbed the Wetterhom and eleven years later, Whymper made his famous ascent of the Matterhorn. By 1880, all the major peaks of the Alps had been scaled, and so climbers went further afield to the Andes and the Himalayas.
24. The passage states that before the 1850s, ...
A) mountain climbing cost a lot of money.
B) people only climbed for research purposes.
C) one had to pay in order to climb mountains.
D) climbing was not regarded as a hobby.
25. British People in general first paid attention to mountaineering when ...
A) Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time.
B) the Alpine club was initially founded in London.
C) a man made a series of speeches on the subject.
D) Dr. Paccard climbed Mont Blanc in 1786.
26. It is implied that European climbers first started climbing mountains outside Europe...
A) once they had been inspired by Albert Smith's lectures
B) so that they could make field maps of other areas
C) because the Alps in Europe took far too long to climb
D) as they wanted to climb previously unclimbed mountains
Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for the gaps 27-28 in the text. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric tight (27).... said -that his best ideas came to him in dreams. So (28)... the great physicist Albert Einstein.
27. A) fire B) candle C) balloon D) bulb
28. A) has B) does C) did D) said
Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for the gaps 29-31 in the text.
In the 18^th and 19 centuries thousands of covered wagons were used (29)... cargoes from the east coast to the Ohio River. Settlers going west to Oregon and California used covered wagons as homes on (30).... By 1885 railroads took the place {31)... covered wagons and they were no longer needed.
29. A) carried B) carrying C) to carry D) carry
30. A) horse B) land C) cars D) wheels
31. A) instead B) by C) of D) from