BE QUICK! WE MUSTSPEED UPIF WE DON’T WANT TO MISS THE FLIGHTA. TUR...

22. Be quick! We must

speed up

if we don’t want to miss the flight

A. turn down

B. look up

C. slow down

D. put forward

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is (23) ____ in

the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is

surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km², it is the (24) ______ continent in

area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America; in turn, Europe and Australia

are smaller. Some 98 percent of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6

km in (25) ____.

On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest

average elevation of all the continents. Since there is little precipitation, (26) ____ at the

coasts, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world. There are

no permanent human residents and Antarctica has never had an indigenous population.

Only cold-adapted plants and animals (27) ______ there, including penguins, fur

seals, mosses, lichens, and many types of algae.