Lesson 4 Go for It!
Too Hot to Run
____ you are in the middle of a great desert.
The sands go on and on in every ____
The sun feels like a ____ ball of fire.
The hot ____ burns your face and throat.
You open your backpack to drink ____ water.
Oh, ____ You’re almost out of water.
____ 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 part in the ____ Deserts Race.
The 4 Deserts Race is a series ____ four races across the world’s toughest deserts.
Each race is 250 kilometers long ____ takes seven days.
The first race takes place in ____ Atacama Desert in Chile.
It is the ____ desert in the world.
In fact, it hasn’t rained in some parts of the Atacama Desert ____ 400 years!
The next ____ goes to the Gobi Desert in China.
It is the windiest ____ on earth.
Sahara Desert
The third race heads to the Sahara Desert in ____
____ is the hottest of the four deserts.
Temperatures can ____ up to 50°C.
Finally, the race travels to the ____ desert on earth, Antarctica.
If you throw boiling water ____ the air here, it freezes!
Only the greatest runners on the planet can take part in ____ 4 Deserts Race, right?
Not ____
____ of the participants are ordinary people like you and me.
So why do they ____ it?
Adrianna, a ____ from France, says,
“It’s a chance ____ test your limits and make your own history.
Anyone who crosses the finish line can ____ anything.”