2014届高考英语复习题库解析版：18.docVIP

高考英语复习题库解析版：18 It was late in the afternoon. Several hundred villagers left their houses and gathered in the open air outside the village. They were staring __1__ at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with __2__ —beautiful and dangerous. The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had __3__ the top, using the southern route. But no one had ever dared to try a winter climbing up the __4__ side. But now one man was daring to try the __5__ route. He was Walter Bonatti, a great mountain climber from Italy. For two days he had climbed.The village people had watche