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Patrick Malone

The Amazon expedition, which took six months and covered a distance of almost 2,500 kilometres, was a great success. The group discovered some new plant and insect species, as well as a forest tribe which people had never heard of. Malone enjoyed the trip so much that he decided to become a full-time explorer. He earned money by writing travel articles for magazines and newspapers, which he illustrated with his own photographs.

In 1996, he married Margaret Logan, an American doctor he had met while travelling around Africa. In 1998 they had Adam, the first of three children (twins Amelia and Jennifer were born a year later). Many families at this stage would settle down, but Margaret and Patrick decided to keep travelling, spending two years walking around India and another twelve months exploring the islands of Indonesia.

When they returned home, they wrote a magazine article about travelling with small children. It was so popular that they were asked to write several more articles on the same subject. This was followed by an offer from a television company to present a TV series about travelling with children. The series ran for 12 years, and won several television awards. Today they still make the most of every opportunity to travel, and have recently returned from the South Pacific.

Read the part of the passage, and complete gaps 1-6. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each one.

Travelled 2,500 kilometres through the Amazon.

[1] ___________ a tribe that nobody knew existed.

[2] ___________ someone he mệt on a trip

They had [3] ___________: Adam, Amelia and Jennifer.

Explored the Indonesian islands for [4] ___________

Made a successful [5] ___________ .

Still likes to [6] __________ whenever possible.​