There’s much more water than land on the (1) ___ of the earth.
There’s much more water than land on the (1) ___ of the earth. The seas and oceans cover nearly (2) ___ of the whole world, and only one-fifth of (3) ___ land. If you traveled over the earth in different directions, you would have to spend (4) ___ more of your time (5) ___ on water that on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that for every mile of land (6) ___ four miles of water.
There’s so much water in the surface of our earth that we (7) ___ to use two words to describe. We use the word SEAS (8) ___ those parts of water surface which (9) ___ only few hundreds of mile, the word OCEANS to describe the huge area of water (10) ___ are thousands of miles wide and very deep.
1. A. cover B. surface C. outer D. outside
2. A. four-fives B. four-fifth C. four fifths D. fourth-fifths
3. A. it is B. it’s C. its D. them are
4. A. many B. much C. few D. too
5. A. to move B. move C. moved D. moving
6. A. there are B. there is C. there has D. have
7. A. must B. should C. have D. would
8. A. describing B. describes C. describe D. to describe
9. A. is B. are C. has D. will be
10. A. that’s B. which C. where D. whose
