Question

Read the text again and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the begninning (0).
All thanks to the mobile phone
Dave Mill owes his life (0) to his mobile phone. He was trying to make history by walking to the North Pole alone, without any help or support. But after 50 days of extremely bad weather, during (1).........the temperature dropped (2)..........low as minus 30°C, Dave (3).........forced to abandon his attempt.
He had completed 185 miles of the 375-mile journey and had suffered several mishaps. He had broken his sunglasses, (4)......... followed by polar bears and fallen into freezing water twice. Then, after (5)...... the decision to give up, he had some more bad luck and found (6)...... stranded on a floating piece of ice that was slowly melting.
The weather was too bad for any rescue attempt to (7)...... made. Dave waited (8)..... three days, hoping that conditions would improve. But the rescue planes could not land because dense fog prevented (9)...... from seeing the surface of the ice.
Then he remembered his mobile phone. He marked out a runway on the ice and (10)....... a photograph with his digital camera. Then he used his phone to email (11)...... to the waiting air rescue team. Using the photograph to guide him, the pilot was able to land in (12)...... of the weather, and Dave was lifted off the ice to safety

Answer 1

Răspuns:

1. which

2. as

3. was

4. was

5. taking

6. himself

7. be

8. for

9. them

10. took

11. it

12. fog