第三节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Inferno is the oldest and most celebrated of all amateur ski races. It 51. ______ (hold) every January, near MÜrren in Switzerland. Anyone can take part, as long as they belong to 52. ______ ski racing club.
The Inferno was the 53. ______ (invent) of a British businessman called Henry Lunn, who came up with the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s and 54. ______ (begin) taking groups of people to the Alps for winter sports. Henry’s son, Arnold, grew very fond of MÜrren and he founded a ski club there in 1924. Four years later, seventeen of the club’s members took part in the first Inferno race, 55. ______ the top of the 2,970-metre Schilthorn mountain to MÜrren below.
In those early days, they used 56. ______(climb) for six hours from the railway station in MÜrren before the start of the race. Today, 57. ______ (racer) use a cable car (缆车) which takes about twenty minutes. In the first race, the winning time for the fourteen-kilometre race was one hour, twelve minutes. These days it tends to be almost 58. ______ (exact) an hour. Although the skiers are very much faster now, some things haven’t changed. The course, 59. ______ is steep (陡峭的) and has sharp bends (急转弯), remains one of the most 60. ______ (demand) and frightening in the world.
IV. 语法填空
51. is held 52. a 53. invention 54. began 55. from
56. to climb 57. racers 58. exactly 59. which 60. demanding
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Inferno is the oldest and most celebrated of all amateur ski races. It 51. ______ (hold) every January, near MÜrren in Switzerland. Anyone can take part, as long as they belong to 52. ______ ski racing club.
The Inferno was the 53. ______ (invent) of a British businessman called Henry Lunn, who came up with the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s and 54. ______ (begin) taking groups of people to the Alps for winter sports. Henry’s son, Arnold, grew very fond of MÜrren and he founded a ski club there in 1924. Four years later, seventeen of the club’s members took part in the first Inferno race, 55. ______ the top of the 2,970-metre Schilthorn mountain to MÜrren below.
In those early days, they used 56. ______(climb) for six hours from the railway station in MÜrren before the start of the race. Today, 57. ______ (racer) use a cable car (缆车) which takes about twenty minutes. In the first race, the winning time for the fourteen-kilometre race was one hour, twelve minutes. These days it tends to be almost 58. ______ (exact) an hour. Although the skiers are very much faster now, some things haven’t changed. The course, 59. ______ is steep (陡峭的) and has sharp bends (急转弯), remains one of the most 60. ______ (demand) and frightening in the world.
IV. 语法填空
51. is held 52. a 53. invention 54. began 55. from
56. to climb 57. racers 58. exactly 59. which 60. demanding
