Vocab/Paragraphs
This is the meaning of the word planted as it used in paragraph 7...
What is fixed or set firmly in place?
Based on paragraphs 1 through 3, this sentence best describes a challenge the climbers encountered on the ridge between the south and main summits...
What is the climbers could easily fall if the surfaces they moved along broke off?
This detail from the passage supports the answer to Part A? (#17)
What is "...overhanging masses of snow that can collapse beneath you at any time?"
This statement best describes the structure of paragraph 7...
What is "it explains why the author decided to leave his oxygen bottle on the summit"
In paragraph 5, what evidence does the author use to support the idea that reaching the summit of Everest was very special?
What is the author was only the 131st person to climb the mountain.
This sentence best describes the overall structure of the passage..
What is it describes what the climbers saw as they climbed Everest and when they reached the summit?
This detail from the passage best shows the structure (#24)
What is "Quickly, carefully, we climbed in an unchanging routine- dig in the ice ax, take three breaths, then one step, start again." (paragraph 3)
This sentence best states a main idea of the passage.
What is climbers have trouble on the ridge between the summits of Mount Everest?
This detail, found in paragraph 6 suggests that the author...
This sentence states the main idea of the passage...
What is People who climb Mount Everest face a dangerous challenge?
This detail from the passage best supports the answer to Part A (#25)
What is "Fall on the south side, and you'd go straight down to Camp Two. Off the north side you'd plummet into Tibet." (paragraph 1)
This sentence best belongs in a summary of the passage...
What is the climbers slowly made their way up Mount Everest using ropes and ice axes.