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Choose the correct answer a, b, or c .

1. I was sure that I _________ her before.

a) had saw b) seen c) had seen

2. I needed to know what ___________ to my dog.

a) has happened b) had happened c) happened

3. The film ____________ by the time we got to the cinema.

a) had start b) had started c) has started

4. Julia left the restaurant after she ________ eating.

a) had finished b) has finished c) finished

5. I went to bed after I __________ off the television.

a) switched b) has switched c) had switched

6. By the time we ________, everyone had left.

a) arrived b) had arrived c) was arriving

7. I _________ a long time ago.

a) finished b) had finished c) has finished

8. By that time, everybody _________ exhausted.

a) was b) had been c) will have been

9. She told me she _________ it ages ago.

a) did b) had done c) have been doing

10. I ________ of it until you mentioned it.

a) didn’t hear b) hadn’t heard c) haven’t heard

I. Read the article. What did one of Andrew Irvine’s brothers find in 1962?

Mallory and Irvine: did they make it to the top?

On June, 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine began the final stage of their attempt to be the first to conquer Everest. But when they were only 267 m from the top, they vanished into the mists, never to be seen again.

For almost a decade after they were last seen, no one had a clue what had happened to them. Had they reached the top and then died on the way down, thus being the first men to climb Everest? Or did they die before getting there?

In 1933, during the next British Everest expedition, a climber found an ice axe high on the Northeast Ridge at 9000 m. The axe had a characteristic identification mark, but at the time nobody recognized it. Thirty years later, in 1962, on of Irvine’s brothers found an old walking stick belonging to Irvine. It had identical markings, so the ice axe must have been Irvine’s. However, his body could not be found.

In April 1999 Jochen Hemmleb, a world expert on the history of Everest expeditions, set out with a team of men to try to find out the truth about what had happened to them. Hemmleb already knew that a Chinese climber had found the body of an Englishman in 1975, but he had died in an avalanche in 1979 before he could give accurate details.

Hemmleb and his team decided to climb the North Face of Everest. After about five hours, they decided to go in different directions. Some members of the group found a cemetery of frozen bodies. Another, Conrad Anker, looked in an area lower down and saw a patch of white which was whiter than the rock around it and the snow. When he got close, he saw that it was a body that had clearly been there for a long time. Most of the clothing had gone and the skin was white. The group carefully examined the few clothes left on the body and found the remains of a label which said, ‘G. Mallory.’ Unexpectedly, the climbers had found the body of Irvine’s companion, George Mallory, the greatest mountain climber of his generation.


Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1462


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