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UNIT 3
Lesson 10
Exercise 1.1
The Amazon River is 4,000 miles (6,400km) long.
The Nile River is 4,160 miles (6,671km) long.
The Nile is longer than the Amazon.
The Sahara Desert covers 3.7 million square
miles.(9.6 million square km)
The Gobi Desert coves 455,000 square miles
(1.2 million square km).
The Sahara Desert is larger
than the Gobi Desert.
K2 is 28,251 feet (8,611) high.
Mount Qomolangma is 29,028 feet (8,848m) high
Mount Qomolangma is higher than K2.
Lake Baikal is 5,315 feet (1,620m) deep.
The Caspian Sea is 3,227 feet (1,025m) deep.
Lake Baikal is deeper than the Caspian Sea.
Exercise 1.2
Work it out
Canada is very large
but Russia is larger than Canada.
The Yangtze River is longer
than the Yellow River.
Mount Kita in Japan is very high
But Mount Fuji is higher than Mont Kita.
The Pacific Ocean is larger
than the Indian Ocean.
The Nile is longer than the Mississippi.
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