大学英语六级听力练习 006

Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity . It may be walking , cycling , or swimming , or in winter , skating or sking . It may be a game of some forms —football , basketball, hockey , golf of tennis. It may be mountaineering . Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment . Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship , and to take risks in high mountains ? This astonishment it caused , probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure . Mountaineering is a sport and not a game . There are no man made rules , as others , as there are for such games as golf and football . There are , of course , rules of different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore , but it is this freedom from man made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people . Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods . If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports , we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this . There are , it is true , no “matcher” between “ teams” of climbers , but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend , there is obviously teamwork .