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