Lesson 4 Go for It!
Too Hot to Run
Imagine you are in the middle of a ____ desert.
The sands go on and on in ____ direction.
The sun feels like a giant ____ of fire.
The hot wind burns your ____ and throat.
You open your ____ to drink some water.
Oh, no! You’re almost out of ____.
____ wet your throat with a drop of water and keep going.
Sounds like a bad dream?
Well, this is not a dream for the people who take ____ in the 4 Deserts Race.
The 4 Deserts Race is a ____ of four races across the world’s toughest deserts.
Each race is 250 kilometers long and takes ____ days.
The first ____ takes place in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
It is the driest ____ in the world.
In fact, it ____ rained in some parts of the Atacama Desert for 400 years!
The next race ____ to the Gobi Desert in China.
It is the ____ desert on earth.
Sahara Desert
The third race heads to the Sahara Desert in ____.
It is the ____ of the four deserts.
Temperatures ____ reach up to 50°C.
Finally, the race ____ to the coldest desert on earth, Antarctica.
If you throw boiling water ____ the air here, it freezes!
Only the greatest runners on the planet can take ____ in the 4 Deserts Race, right?
____ exactly.
Many of the participants are ordinary people like ____ and me.
So ____ do they do it?
Adrianna, a ____ from France, says,
____ a chance to test your limits and make your own history.
Anyone who crosses the finish ____ can do anything.”