His devotion _______ biking allowed him to win the competition.
Unfortunately, by the time we _____ to the railway station, the train _____.
"Was the competition a success?" - "Yes, _____ people took part in it than usual."
Jessica was born in Australia, but she has spent _____ of her life there.
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The Netherlands, with much of its land lying lower than sea level, have a system of dikes and canals for controlling water.
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Lam and his friends often go to the cinema to enjoy the new films.
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We should make some posters and hang it around our school.
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He bought a lot of books, none of them he has ever read.
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Though formally close friends, they have now been estranged from each other due to some regrettable misunderstandings.
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"You have to get all the letters sent off by tomorrow," said Jake to his secretary.
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Had he known more about the internet, he would have invested in some computer companies.
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No houses in this street are older than his house.
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The boy who was waiting in the hall expected a phone call.
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Sometimes having professional assistance with your CV can increase your chance of finding a job.
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A rather surprising geographical feature of Antarctica is that a huge freshwater lake, one of the world's largest and deepest, lies hidden there under four kilometers of ice. Now known as Lake Vostok, this huge body of water is located under the ice block that comprises Antarctica. The lake is able to exist in its unfrozen state beneath this block of ice because its waters are warmed by geothermal heat from the earth's core. The thick glacier above actually insulates it from the frigid temperatures on the surface.
The lake was first discovered in the 1970s while a research team was conducting an aerial survey of the area. Radio waves from the survey equipment penetrated the ice and revealed a body of water of indeterminate size. It was not until much more recently that data collected by satellite made scientists aware of the tremendous size of the lake; the satellite-borne radar detected an extremely flat region where the ice remains level because it is floating on the water of the lake.
The discovery of such a huge freshwater lake trapped under Antarctica is of interest to the scientific community because of the potential that the lake contains ancient microbes that have survived for thousands upon thousands of years, unaffected by factors such as nuclear fallout and elevated ultraviolet light that have affected organisms in more exposed areas. The downside of the discovery, however, lies in the difficulty of conducting research on the lake in such a harsh climate and in the problems associated with obtaining uncontaminated samples from the lake without actually exposing the lake to contamination. Scientists are looking for possible ways to accomplish this.
The word "it" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ______.
It can be inferred from the passage that the ice would not be flat if ____.
The word "microbes" in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by which of the following?
Lake Vostok is potentially important to scientists because it _____.
What is the passage mainly about?