| 20. On February 1st, 2007, a man started swimming. His name was Martin Strel and he was 52 years old. He was a native of Slovenia, a country in Europe. Strel’s swim started in the headwaters of the Amazon River in Peru, a country in South America. It ended at the mouth of the Amazon in the city of Belem. Belem __________________ a coastal city in Brazil. | BE |
| 21. Strel swam for 66 days. Each day he __________________ an average distance of 80 km in the tea-coloured water, which totaled over 5 thousand km all in all. | COVER |
| 22. The Amazon River is the __________________-longest river in the world. Only the Nile River in Africa is longer. | TWO |
| 23. The Amazon may not be the longest, but it is the largest in volume. It contains the __________________ water. | MUCH |
| 24. Strel was not all alone on his difficult journey. He __________________ by an escort boat which provided him with support and protection. There were 22 people on the escort boat, including navigators and armed men. | ACCOMPANY |
| 25. The navigators studied the route and kept an eye out for dangers. The armed men defended the boat from pirates that kept __________________ them. | ATTACK |
| 26. Strel managed to stay away from the flesh-eating piranha fish, the giant water-swimming snakes anacondas and alligators. All of __________________ dangerous animals live in big numbers in the Amazon River. | THIS |
| 27. The ocean tides at the river’s mouth were incredibly strong. They were so strong that Strel __________________ swim during the day. | NOT CAN |
| 28. If he swam during the day, the force of the incoming tides pushed __________________ backward. This meant that Strel had to finish his long swim in the dark water in the blackness of the night. | HE |
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