There is much more water than land on the (1) _______ of the earth. The seas and oceans cover nearly four fifths of the whole world, and only one fifth of it is land. If you travelled over the earth in different directions, you would have to spend (2) _______ more of your time (3) _______ on water than on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that for every mile of land there are four miles of water.
There is so much water on the surface of our earth that we have to use two words to describe. We use the word “seas” (4) _______ those parts of water surface which is only a few hundreds of miles wide, the word “oceans” to describe the huge area of water (5) _______ are thousands of miles wide and very deep.
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There is much more water than land on the (1) _______ of the earth. The seas and oceans cover nearly four fifths of the whole world, and only one fifth of it is land. If you travelled over the earth in different directions, you would have to spend (2) _______ more of your time (3) _______ on water than on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that for every mile of land there are four miles of water.
There is so much water on the surface of our earth that we have to use two words to describe. We use the word “seas” (4) _______ those parts of water surface which is only a few hundreds of miles wide, the word “oceans” to describe the huge area of water (5) _______ are thousands of miles wide and very deep.
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Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
There is much more water than land on the (1) _______ of the earth. The seas and oceans cover nearly four fifths of the whole world, and only one fifth of it is land. If you travelled over the earth in different directions, you would have to spend (2) _______ more of your time (3) _______ on water than on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that for every mile of land there are four miles of water.
There is so much water on the surface of our earth that we have to use two words to describe. We use the word “seas” (4) _______ those parts of water surface which is only a few hundreds of miles wide, the word “oceans” to describe the huge area of water (5) _______ are thousands of miles wide and very deep.