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Unit 1单元话题完形填空专项练习
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(2022·江苏苏州·高二期末)A 75-year-old retired lawyer from Chicago recently became the oldest American to ever conquer Everest, the world’s tallest mountain top. The most ____1____ thing is that he had only started mountaineering seven years before.
Arthur Muir had taken great ____2____ in mountain climbing ever since his father gave him a book about the Himalayas when he was a child. And that fascination only ____3____ when Barry Bishop, a famous climber and conqueror of Everest, visited his high school in 1964. ____4____ , he never followed his dream of picking up mountaineering until a friend ____5____ him to do so seven years ago. Once he did, he couldn’t stop his steps of ____6____ his dream.
Muir cut his mountaineering teeth on mountains in South America and Alaska, before finally taking on the ____7____ he had been dreaming of his whole life. In 2019, Arthur Muir set out to climb Everest. Unluckily, his ____8____ ended in failure after he injured his ankle as