3 Read the text again and think of the word
which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each
gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
All thanks to the
mobile phone
Dave Mill owes his life
(0) ....... his mobile phone. He was
trying to make history by walking to
the North Pole alone, without any
help or support. But after 50 days of
extremely bad weather, during
(1)
(2)
(3)
y
the temperature dropped
low as minus 30°C, Dave
........ forced to abandon his attempt.
He had completed 185 miles of the 375-mile
journey and had suffered several mishaps. He had
broken his sunglasses, (4)........... followed by polar
bears and fallen into freezing water twice. Then, after
(5) the decision to give up, he had some more
bad luck and found (6) stranded on a floating
piece of ice that was slowly melting.
..........
The weather was too bad for any rescue attempt to
(7)........... made. Dave waited (8)........... three days,
hoping that conditions would improve. But the rescue
planes could not land because dense fog prevented
(9)........... from seeing the surface of the ice.
Then he remembered his mobile phone. He marked
out a runway on the ice and (10)............ a photograph
with his digital camera. Then he used his phone to
email (11)......... to the waiting air rescue team. Using
the photograph to guide him, the pilot was able to land
in (12) of the weather, and Dave was lifted off
the ice to safety.