HIS VISIT TO NEW YORK SEEMED TO GET ______ BECAUSE HE WAS BUSY AT...

32. His visit to New York seemed to get ______ because he was busy at work.

A. more and more short B. shorter and shorter

C. the shortest D. the shorter and shorter

* Read the passage below and decide which answer ( A, B, C or D)best fits each space:

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is in the Himalayan Mountains between Nepal and China,

and it is 8,900 meters high. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first

people ever to climb Mount Everest. They climbed it in 1953. Since then, men from different countries have been (33)

_____ in climbing it.

However, the first woman to make this difficult climb was Junko Tabei, a (34) _____ Japanese woman from

Hokkaido. She was a housewife but really interested in climbing mountains. She earned money for her trips (35) _____

English and piano to young children.

In 1975, a Tokyo newspaper-television company organized the Mount Everest climb for women. They chose

fifteen women from mountaineering clubs to go to Nepal. The groups climbed for several days. Then there was an

avalanche, and most of the women were (36) _____. Only Ms. Tabei was able to climb the last 70 meters and stand on

the top of the world. She was the first woman there.