Reading 1 Look at the text. Choose the best title. Write the title at the top.
a) Across the desert by camel b) A drive across the desert a The comet doctors
The desert is one of the most difficult environmenax
in the world to travel through. The sand dunes are
difficult to climb and, in the daytime, the sun is
bright and the temperatures are very high. You can
travel for many days and wecks wuhout finding
ang water or food.
Long before cars, people used camels to cross the
desen, Camcix are ideal deun animal. They can
carry heavy loads of up to 450 kilograms and
they can walk for days wthout water. When they
find water, they can drink up 10 100 litres of water
in ten minutes! Camels can eat almost any plant
they find in the deser. Their milk is very good to
drink and it is full of vitamins, to people travelling
in the desert can drink the camel's milk and stay
healthy. Camels were used to bring packages
of food and other supplies to faraway villages.
Sometimes, camels were used by people who
wanted to sell goods in different place. In more
recent umes, they cand equipment for building
radwags.
Today, we have 4 x 4 vehicles which can travel over
the sand, bur cars sometimes break down in the
hot temperatures. This can be very dangerous as
you can be miles from a village with no transpon!
Camels can travel long distances to places which
have no roads or railways to connect them to other
towns. In Mali, in Africa, camels carry blocks of
salt for 800 kilometres over high sand dunes to
Timbuktu, where they are sold. In other places,
camels take important medianes to desert villages.
Life in the desert would be much more difficult
without comels!
