(a) Who was Erik? What was his achievement?

(b) Why did Erik think that his attempt to scale the Everest was a colossal mistake?

(c) What were the dangers that Erik, as a blind man, had to encounter?

(d) Why did Erik say that "summiting Everest" was probably the greatest experience of his life?

(a) Erik became blind because of a rare hereditary disease of the retina.

(b) Erik would sometimes wonder if it was his great mistake to take an attempt to become the first blind person to climb Mount Everest.

(c) Khumbu Ice fall, the trail through the Himalayan glacier is not at all a landscape.

(d) A typical assault on Everest requires each climber to do as many as twelve traverses between Base Camp and Camp I.

(a) Erik wondered if his attempt to become the first blind person to climb ________________________.

(b) It turned out that climbing Mount Everest with Erik wasn't that different from ________________________.

(c) As the team ventured higher up Everest, oxygen deprivation and other factors began ________________________.

(d) With only seven days left in the climbing season, most members of the expedition ________________________.

(a) Kenyans grow coffee.

(b) They make fans in Spain.

(c) The Romans built the bridge 2000 years ago.

(d) Have they cleaned the swimming pool yet?

(e) They sent her an invitation.

(f) They asked him to leave.

(g) They'll serve you lunch on the plane.

(h) They will declare you your results next week.

(i) They make shoes in that factory.

(j) They built that skyscraper in 1934.

(k) They speak English all over the world.

(l) Somebody has given me an invitation to the party.

(m) People will forget this scandal in time to come.

(n) They offered him a job but he turned it down.

(o) Someone can easily repair this machine.

(p) Has anyone cleaned the room yet?