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3. There wasn't much time to complete the journey. They found out they couldn't travel across the Himalayan Mountains before the snow melted in April, but by June the Dzungarian Desert is too hot to ride in. So they had to finish the incredible 5,301 kilometres journey in just 50 days.
4. On the trip, they travelled through rain, ice, snow and dust storms. It was freezing cold in the mountains but the temperature in the desert was as high as 46 degrees C. They had to cycle more slowly than they had planned because there wasn't much oxygen.
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5. They finally reached the centre of the earth in an amazing 58 days. They didn't ride back again — they caught a plane home. So they were not completely mad.
A. Things they took with them.
B. How much time they had.
C. A crazy journey.
D. Gettirig home again.
E. Problems on the trip.
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11 Reading Corner
Read the story and do the tasks in the Workbook.
Silver Skates
(after Mary Dodge)
1. Holland is not a very large country but it has a lot of canals. Many years ago the canals were like roads for the Dutch country people. When they wanted to go to the market, to the center of the town or even to some other
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