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.