Erik Weihenmayer wants to climb Mount Everest．He loves to climb, and there is no place greater for climbers than the peak of 29 035 feet, the world’s highest mountain．
Weihenmayer is blind．He has been blind since age 13, when an eye disease robbed him of his sight．In his new book, Touch the Top of the World, he describes his blindness and climbing．He is the first blind man to attempt Everest．The team reached the base camp at 17 800 feet last Wednesday and began its climb Saturday．If all goes well, Weihenmayer will reach the top on about May 15．
“I’m not just some broken blind guy,” Weihenmayer, aged 32, said for hours before he left Los Angeles on Friday for Katmandu, Nepal．“I put my life in my fellow climbers’ hands, and they put their lives in my hands．It’s an honor to reach that state．”
“I want to experience the scene of adventure．Blindness has nothing to do with that．But a message of the climb is that a blind person can join a team and climb the highest mountain in the world．”
Weihenmayer has climbed the highest peaks on four continents：North America’s Mount McKinley, South America’s Aconcagua, Africa’s Kilimanjaro and Antarctica’s Vinson Massif．He is an expert rock and ice climber, having scaled EL Captain in Yosemite National Park．When he was 16, he attended a school that taught blind people to be independent．One day, a group went rock-climbing．“I really liked it,” Weihenmayer said, “You can solve problems．It is sense in your inner mind．People didn’t think blind people could go out and become expert rock climbers．”
(1)
The underlined word “peak” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________．
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A．
the highest point of mountains
B．
the edge of a top
C．
to make smaller
D．
to reach the highest point
(2)
The distance between the top of Mount Everest and the base camp was probably ________．
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A．
29 035 feet
B．
17 800 feet
C．
11 235 feet
D．
not told in the passage
(3)
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
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A．
Weihenmayer likes the sense of being dependent on other people since he is blind．
B．
Weihenmayer and his teammates will reach the top of Mount Everest exactly on May 15．
C．
Weihenmayer loves climbing because he enjoys solving problems and the sense of adventure．
D．
Weihenmayer will have climbed the highest mountains on four continents after climbing Mount Everest．
(4)
The third paragraph mainly shows Erik shares all the following with his friends EXCEPT ________．
