CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / Multiple Choice Cloze

For questions 1- 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

 

some facts about antarctica

Antarctica occupies about 9% of the earth’s total land surface. For this to be true, of course, you must accept snow and ice as “land surface,”  ... [because/owing to/despite/although]  this is what mainly constitutes that part of the continent that lies above sea level. Think of the antarctic continent as a vast  ... [convex/convert/convent/converse]  lens of ice with a thin veneer of snow. In ... [contrast/addition/harmony/order]  to the region around the north pole, which is just ... [floating/fleeting/sailing/swimming]  ice at the surface of the ocean, the antarctic ice lens rests on solid rock. In most places the ice is so thick, and weights so much, that it has depressed the underlying rock to about sea level. If the ice melted completely, the surface of the continent would ... [rebound/rebate/rebuke/renown]  over a long period of time until its average elevation would be higher than any other continent. As it ... [is/happens/goes/does], the ice surface itself gives Antarctica a higher average elevation than any other continent. It is only a few places, where mountains  ... [defy/provoke/disregard/confront]  the ice cover, that we can directly sample the underlying rocks. At the centre of the continent the elevation is about 4000 m. At the south geographic  ...
[pole/poll/pool/post], which is not at the centre of the continent, the elevation is 3000m.

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