MUET QUIZ 2

Preparation task

Match the definitions

1. …… kidneys

• to climb to the top of something

• two organs in the body that process liquid waste

• a long, hard walk

• . not breathing easily

Preparation task

Match the definitions

2. …… endurance

• to climb to the top of something

• two organs in the body that process liquid waste

• a long, hard walk

• the ability to do something difficult for a long time

Preparation task

Match the definitions

3. …… to scale

• to climb to the top of something

• two organs in the body that process liquid waste

• a long, hard walk

• the ability to do something difficult for a long time

Preparation task

Match the definitions

4. …… breathless

• to climb to the top of something

• two organs in the body that process liquid waste

• a long, hard walk

• . not breathing easily

Preparation task

Match the definitions

. …… a hike

• to climb to the top of something

• two organs in the body that process liquid waste

• a climb up a mountain or other object

• the ability to do something difficult for a long time

Reading text: A biography of Kilian Jornet

When you picture mountain climbers scaling Mount Everest, what probably comes to mind are teams of climbers with Sherpa guides leading them to the summit, equipped with oxygen masks, supplies and tents. And in most cases you’d be right, as 97 per cent of climbers use oxygen to ascend to Everest’s summit at 8,850 metres above sea level. The thin air at high altitudes makes most people breathless at 3,500 metres, and the vast majority of climbers use oxygen past 7,000 metres. A typical climbing group will have 8–15 people in it, with an almost equal number of guides, and they’ll spend weeks to get to the top after reaching Base Camp.

Task 1 Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

1. It’s normal to find it hard to breathe at …………………………… metres above sea level.

• 97 per cent

• 3500

• 7000

• 8-15

But ultra-distance and mountain runner Kilian Jornet Burgada ascended the mountain in May 2017 alone, without an oxygen mask or fixed ropes for climbing. Oh, and he did it in 26 hours. With food poisoning. And then, five days later, he did it again, this time in only 17 hours.

Task 1 Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

2. Kilian reached the summit of Everest in …………………………… hours on his second attempt.

• 26

• 7

• 17

• 62

Born in 1987, Kilian has been training for Everest his whole life. And that really does mean his whole life, as he grew up 2,000 metres above sea level in the Pyrenees in the ski resort of Lles de Cerdanya in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. While other children his age were learning to walk, Kilian was on skis. At one and a half years old he did a five-hour hike with his mother, entirely under his own steam. He left his peers even further behind when he climbed his first mountain and competed in his first cross-country ski race at age three. By age seven, he had scaled a 4,000er and, at ten, he did a 42-day crossing of the Pyrenees.

Task 1 Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

3. Kilian was …………………………… years old when he walked a long way without being carried.

• ten

• a five hours

• 42

• one and a half

He was 13 when he says he started to take it ‘seriously’ and trained with the Ski Mountaineering Technical Centre (CTEMC) in Catalonia, entering competitions and working with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training, with a schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. He does as many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical workouts as well as specific training in the week before a race. For his record-breaking ascent and descent of the Matterhorn, he prepared by climbing the mountain ten times until he knew every detail of it, even including where the sun would be shining at every part of the day.

Task 1 Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

4. At the age of …………………………… , he saw mountaineering as more than a hobby

• 7

• 18

• 13

• 14

He was 13 when he says he started to take it ‘seriously’ and trained with the Ski Mountaineering Technical Centre (CTEMC) in Catalonia, entering competitions and working with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training, with a schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. He does as many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical workouts as well as specific training in the week before a race. For his record-breaking ascent and descent of the Matterhorn, he prepared by climbing the mountain ten times until he knew every detail of it, even including where the sun would be shining at every part of the day.

Task 1 Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

5. At age …………………………… , he became his own trainer.

• 7

• 18

• 13

• 14